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I think I may have just found the most extreme recipe ever:

Karta (Horse Rectum) (Kazakh)
From Kazakhstan National Cooking Web Page
(www.kz/eng/cooking/cooking.html)
For making one karta:
100 g of karta
salt
green pepper or dill to taste
The thick part of the rectum is washed without removing fat, then
carefully turned inside out so that the fat should be inside, washed once
more and tied up on both sides.
Karta can also be dried and smoked. To dry it karta is strewed
with fine salt and kept in a cool place for 1-2 days, then dried up.
Karta is smoked during 24 hours, then dried during 2-3 days. After
washing it well karta is boiled for 2 hours on slow fire. Before serving
the table it is cut in rings and decorated with green pepper or dill.

― chris (chris), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you meant eating a club sandwich on rollerblades.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That's pretty nuts.

It's tough to beat some of the shit that Tony Bourdain ate, tho. His notable revulsion after eating the iguana was a personal favorite.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the most extreme recipe ever would be the same thing done without washing the rectum.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've read the book Mr Diamond, but would love to see the programme, was he retching?

― chris (chris), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god, chris, it was the worst. He ate a lot of crap on that show but that was the first time he looked like he was going to lose it.

He described it as "the taste of the sludge at the bottom of a fishtank".

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds great. Of course the recipe above came from my research for my latest project.......

― chris (chris), Friday, 30 May 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The birds nest soup episode was pretty foul too.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 30 May 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

um, do tell about your project, I guess.

I like how they specify that it's cut 'in rings.'

Also: I've heard of dicksmokers but THIS IS RIDICULOUS! nyuk nyuk.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 May 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i think the contestants ate a horse rectum on the US reality show Fear Factor, and with benefit of Kazakh culinary expertise!

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 30 May 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The funny thing is, if you weren't told what it was it could very well be reasonably edible... as much so as any other kinda sausage I guess. Now wouldn't you feel worse if you chowed down a whole plate of Karta and THEN found out what it was?

I mean god knows what "parts" are in meat pies and whatnot, but people eat those... (well, I dont. And thats why. Ewgh)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 31 May 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant "without benefit" above of course. It looked disgusting on the show. It probably wouldn't be that bad prepared as a sausage, with plenty of hot pepper.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 31 May 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it in scrapple?

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 31 May 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm...I know an Asian grocery store in the Washington area that carries bull pizzle and pig uteruses, but I don't recall them offering any animal's anuses. Although the sphincter is muscle meat, and chitlins (pig intestines) are supposed to be a delicacy...

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 31 May 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It's indeed funny where various people draw the line as to which animal parts they'll eat. I've had sheeps brains on toast for example, with bechamel sauce - a breakfast treat my dad liked to make. It wasn't so bad, though I think it was the white sauce that made it good. But I tell people I've eaten brains and they look at me like I'm insane, even though you can easily buy brains, heart, tripe, liver, tounge and so on in regular supermarkets.

I'd be more worried about it being bad for you because of high fat/cholesterol content than any yuk factor.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 31 May 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to report from my project that Horsemeat is delicate, tender and sweet. Really goooooood

― chris (chris), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

euw no!!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

honestly it was lovely, like beef, only nicer.

I have two other witnesses to this too.

and it makes fantastic gravy.

― chris (chris), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

He speaks the truth. It really was very extremely tremendous.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I too have eaten horse meat and enjoyed it. It was Leberkaes, and my brother-in-law was sure to avoid naming the animal it was made from until I had eaten almost all of it.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

was it shergar?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

also ptee to thread for the best possible "unstoppable sex maichine" joke

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Nooooo!

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Now it must be told.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the best thread title evah. Every time I see it I hear generic vaguely-punk-oid background music fire up in my head and picture a DUDE-of-a-dude bungie-jumping down a chasm and scooping up a forkload of lasagne, cans of Mountain Dew flying through the air, and a gaggle of high-fiving dude-men saying the word "EXTREME!" and head-butting bison and shit like that. ROCK.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Beauty of dining out on Karta is that you can floss with Jimbob's fringe afterwards
(worse possible unstoppable sex maichine joke to prove that I not a marrionette).

That said though I'd eat rectum tomorrow. I love recipes by the way which just have themselves as an ingredient.

Boiled potatoes.

Some potatoes.

(Water is not an ingredient, its a cooking method).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

...it is cut in rings and decorated with green pepper or dill.

Ha ha, dill-hole!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this dish as extreme as having a piglet aborted for your dining pleasure (as Nigella apparently did according to Mr Bourdain)?

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/glisten1.jpg

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if lamb is tastier than mutton, think how jam tasty a foetus would be.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmm. Especially blended in a milkshake.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about Ferran Adria, Paul Liebrandt, dining in the dark off nude ladies, etc. Horse bung is not too uncommon (not that I've tried it).

"A. Eligible Products--federally inspected fresh/frozen meat and meat products may be exported to Japan. In addition, the following products are eligible to be exported to Japan as edible product:

1. Beef pizzles.
2. Intestines.
a. Beef intestines (small and large)
b. Pork large intestines/pork bung.
...
5. Pork Tongues. Pork tongues with teeth bite marks or wounds may be exported to Japan without removing the marks or wounds. Cartons must be labeled "PORK TONGUES FOR EXPORT TO JAPAN."
6. Bovine bile.
7. Nongravid uteri from gilts or heifers may be exported as edible product.
...
9. Bear meat."

"Bovine Bile" is my grindcore name.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The tastiest kind of dog are the small yellow-haired ones. YUM

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bear meat? Shhh, don't tell DJ Griz!

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone PLEASE remind me to tell the 72oz steak story at the NYC MegaFAP. I'd get carpal tunnel from typing it.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 7 June 2003 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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