Vegetarians look away now, what is the best (land based) animal to eat

i voted for a chicken

chicken obv

le boeuf

no gender sub-category of human no cred

Tough choice, but I went with Mr. Oinky.

No koalas?

I like beef. Burgers and steaks.

What snake I've had has been exquisite, I eat chicken about 4 times a week, and beef is what I crave.
I've recently developed a serious thing for pork though (al pastor or a blt for lunch, chops for dinner), so I'll go with that.

Lamb, just over buffalo.

No other animal can come close to the versatility and deliciousness of pig.

Difficult but I eat chicken practically everyday so went with that.

Anyone else tried ostrich? Tasted like chicken with the chewiness of beef.

The inclusion of veal in the 'cattle' option makes this a lot easier than I thought it would be.

gotta be the cattle meat

I've never had lamb over buffalo!

You never tire of eating goat.

CHICKEN.

Of all the animals I eat regularly, chicken would be easiest for me to give up.

properly cooked lamb is hard to beat. and white veal is pretty damn delicious (although with both these meats i have to pretend i don't know where they come from).

having to explain where white veal comes from to customers at my restaurant, is sometimes fun/traumatising (for them).

Beef, it's what's for dinner.

Insects are not animals.

Uh, sure they are.

The questionable value of my college education reveals itself again.

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I LOVE ALL MY INVERTABRATE BUDS.

oops...actually didn't mean to have caps lock this go-round.

I've never had lamb over buffalo!

It really brings out the flavor.

so much of this depends on how you cook it... if you are doing the food middle eastern or style, it would have to be chicken. Likewise if my mum is doing the cooking.

You guys are nuts. Pig, in all its forms, is the most wonderful thing to eat. Bacon, for one. Salami, slow-cooked shoulder, barbecued ribs, sausages, mortadella, lardo, double-thick caveman chops...

Simple pig is not even in the same league as the wonder that is lamb over buffalo.

French madrange ham, blackforest ham, serrano ham. Oh the pork deli meats.

I still give a slight edge to beef, but pork rules the land of thin sliced sandwich meats.

Pigs are smarter than dogs, so they say.

Not smart enough to undeliciousify themselves, say I.

poulet au pot vs saddle of rabbit vs venison burgers w/fried apple vs entrecote w/ stilton vs confit duck leg w/red cabbage vs devilled chicken livers vs braised oxtail vs BACON vs where are the grouse vs curried goat omg

an unanswerable question in general terms, I think

Seriously, no kangaroo option?

Brutally difficult between pig, cattle and sheep varieties.

Pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig pig

chicken ftw

I drove past an emu farm yesterday, they had one sign that said "EMU - PETS" and then a couple of hundred metres down another that said "EMU - MEAT". It was bizarre.

(chicken ftw)

EMU! OMG OMG OMG EMU EMU EMU!

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chicken...are you people serious?
pork 100x over

I mean I like chix too, don't get me wrong, but it's like the thing restaurants put on the menu for the unadventurous eaters who need everything to be like chicken. It's good, and I cook it, but...BEST??? No way.

otm

of course i love chicken...it's....versatile? but so plain on it's own! it's got to be fried or heavily seasoned to hold my attention.

like a good cut of beef or pork can be amazing just broiled or grilled or seared, but, a good cut of chicken? um

but, but, what about Thai food etc? I would prefer chicken over beouf en generale in curries/soups/stirfry/etc

yeah chicken is good IN things! don't get me wrong. it just needs other flavors (or heavy frying) to be interesting. it's like the tofu of meats.

Oh lord, I love beef pad siew so much.

beef panang mmmm

i have been really craving wild boar lately, but i've got no idea where i can get it.

and i want the weather to get cold so i can make lamb stew.

lamb. it's the only meat i could eat twice a day for the rest of my life and never get sick of.

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bacon is made of pigs. pigs win.

jowl bacon? really?

Really. It's a New Year's Day tradition down here, along with blackeyed peas and cabbage.

i'm kinda wishing i'd gone for pork now that you've mentioned bacon and cabbage.

that's black pudding, bell.

while a really nice lamb shank or shoulder might be the tastiest thing ever, you just can not fuck with the amount of amazing morsels that a pig provides.

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i almost started a poll the other day on "meats of the morning" but i couldn't remember the name of that black hockey puck looking stuff that comes in an irish breakfast.

-- bell_labs, Monday, 1 October 2007 14:12 (35 minutes ago) Link

That would be black pudding (or blood sausage - same thing) which is made from pig's blood, pork fat, pearl barley, herbs and spices. Utterly disgusting in theory, utterly delicious in practice.

Thus proving that the swine is the meat animal supreme...

this is tough. i'd say the cow might just edge out the pig for me (rare filet steak vs. bacon - impossible to choose only 1), although lamb is definitely delicious. but so is horse. and also (not included in poll) is elk, caribou, ostritch...

elk is soooo great.

horse seems like it would be stringy, no?

horse is very very tender and tasty (based on what i've had anyway)

bahh... i think i change my mind to pig since we're just talking about the best animal to EAT. if it was one of these "choose only one animal to bring to your new planet" versatility-type situations, it would definitely be the cow because of the CHEESE factor (the sheep running a close second)

I wish the skunk-cheese strip was still available at the Maakies website...

interesting point by Rob- of course the pig is delicious, but it's basically all negative after that. other animals try harder, so can't concentrate on being yummy ALL the time.

Where is Thermo to tell us what dog with sprinklings of ant is like.

It's pretty tasty! The texture is ok but the meat itself is kind of chewy/gristly.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

SCRAPPLE = goodness

horse is very very tender and tasty (based on what i've had anyway)

wow.

I wonder if people who put chicken down have never had, say, a good-quality, well-prepared cornish game hen. We don't eat inventive cuisine every day, and for good reason. And anyway, what's less inventive than a burger, a steak, your bacon standards? I'll take fish for that, thanks.

I'm tempted to vote for venison, but it's hardly the most versatile, and I wouldn't eat it these days.

Either I am very thick, or the last post is incomprehensible.

maybe you've been eating too much venison

not zinging, i honestly have no idea what you are trying to say.

fish are more inventive than bacon? WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?

fish are smarter than bacon

Inventiveness is not a criterion that enters into most of my day-to-day eating. I save that for one-off occasions like the trip to Morimoto or the recent rijsttafel for 16. I'll judge a hamburger against the best hamburger I've ever eaten, not against the best meal I've ever eaten.

But like has been said upthread, the pig is the most purely versatile food animal by a fur piece.

i like prosciutto, soppressata, pancetta and lardo just fine, at least in small doses, but my attitude is basically 'big deal, it's salty fat.' give me something healthier/subtler, or richer/heartier. something more complex. admittedly, i ate very little of it growing up (pig is a filthy animal etc), and i don't have much of a salt tooth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork

Prior to the mass-production and re-engineering of pork in the 20th Century, pork in Europe and North America was traditionally an autumn dish; pigs and other livestock coming to the slaughter in the autumn after growing in the spring and fattening during the summer. Due to the seasonal nature of the meat in Western culinary history, apples (harvested in late summer and autumn) have been a staple pairing to fresh pork. The year-round availability of meat and fruits has not diminished the popularity of this combination on Western plates.

pork lovers: come to my restaurant and have thin, tenderised pork fillets in a light creamy sauce with thin slices of fresh apple, diced dried apricots, pistachio and pinenuts and a little apple sours liqueur. or try the same pork fillets in a creamy button mushroom and madeira sauce.

or the tortellini amatriciana, ricotta-stuffed pasta parcels in a rich tomato sauce with bacon and chili.

[stupid customers: plz stop pronouncing 'americana' - it has a freakin' T in it!]

plz to open your restaurant in MN because that sounds AWESOME.

if you come to nz i will give you a generous discount and free booze. i'm good like that.

Salty fat is my ultimate foodstuff -- apart from possibly mint chip ice cream, but it's a pitched battle.

Where is the SHMOO option here?

Laurel, do you like the chicharones? (sp?)

Have never had, Abbott! I admit animals skins don't really appeal in concept so I think I've avoided eating them.

They are hot fat salt crunch yum.

I had v. good garlic-coated red snapper the other day...fuck you that which creepeth on the land.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i ate some snake ib vietnam once. it was ok.

buffalo should have won this

tis gonna have to be duck, not only are they good to look at, they taste great with orange sauce.

lamb over buffalo should have won this

lamb should have won this

wtf people: pork?

pork is the new chicken breast

Lamb seconded.

Pig might be delicious, but you'd get pretty sick of it if it was the only meat you ate.

PIG not pork. sausages, bacon, ham, gammon... and pork. So versatile. So tasty. Pork scratchings, pigs trotters... ok I've never had pigs trotters.

And black pudding. Trotters are good.

There was a thread somewhere where Tep(?) talked about putting a whole pig's head on a barbecue and picking off the various bits of it and how they all tasted different. It was signed off "Truly, the pig's head is nature's bacon."

Also Brawn, chitterlings etc. etc. Pretty much the only thing on a pig that isn't edible is the squeal.

Only 3 votes for human despite it's apparent porky qualities.

its its its its its

*goes to back of class*