The Meat Poll

Interesting.

This may surprise some people, but I'm going with fish. Nothing makes me *feel* better. Raw fish makes me positively lively. I take fish oil supplements regularly, and they have a noticeable effect on my mood and productivity. I love a good rare steak, or a serious piece of lamb, but fish seems to feed me better.

i do love my beef and pork but gonna go with chicken here, it just seems more versatile and i probably eat it more regularly too

Beef edges out lamb.

To save myself interminable agonies between Beef, Pork and Fish I'm going to cut my losses now and vote Pork for probably giving me the greatest and most varied joys down the years. But sheesh, I'd spend hard hours on this otherwise. Hoping somebody writes-in for Kangaroo or Horse or something (Kangaroo at least is very nice, as is Venison, which I'm hoping gets a vote or two)

I haven't decided yet, but pondering my recent love of fish is what inspired the poll

gotta go with the hog

sexist

since elk isn't an option, going with pork

With Louis on the varied pleasures of pig, but going to vote lamb, just because I so seldom have t - Em won't let me.

mmmm murder

Damn, I meant venison as a catch-all category, but I should have noted the last line:

Venison can describe meat of any animal killed by hunting.[1] It was originally applied to any animal from the families Cervidae (deer), Leporidae (hares), and Suidae (wild pigs), and certain species of the genus Capra (goats and antelopes), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer/caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex, but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

voted for pork, although i find those "omgbaconbaconfoodgasmwhoa" people a bit wearying.

Like myself and Laurel, you mean?

also, where are the amphibians on this thread?

xpost: oh, it's not like i don't rep for TEH SWEETSWEET BACON

thinking about picking pork. a well-made loin is probably my favorite of any cut of meat. also: bacon, bratwurst (and other awesome pork-based sausages incl. chorizo), al pastor, bolognese... never been a big fan of ham, but it has its uses.

aww man, i meant to put amphibians but forgot. frog legs!

Venison is underrated.

when I was a kid, my dad's friend made this cajun stuff which consisted of ground venison (that he had killed himself) mixed with rice and a bunch of pepper and spices, and stuffed into a casing. One of the best things I've ever eaten.

a well-made loin is probably my favorite of any cut of meat.

Aren't you Jewish? Not currently religious, obviously, but did you grow up with pork chops and holiday hams? I mean, if not, I'm even more inclined to consider your opinion on pork seriously.

Also lunchmeat-level ham is way different than a whole ham, cooked slowly for hours and braised with honey.

i am 100 percent heeb, and i grew up eating pork.

The new heebs, they just blow my mind.

sorta with kenan on this. i eat a ton of fish, and i lovvve it. but nothing is so viscerally satisfying as some really good beef.

My heart says beef, but my brain gets more out of fish.

right.

That said, I still remember the best piece of meat I've ever had, and it was a grass-fed leg of lamb. (It also cost $60.)

i think the best i ever had was this insanely delicious fillet mignon in hawaii. mmmmm. runner up was a fillet i had at a fancy dinner in ny. so. maybe i should vote beef.

kind of lol bc i have only started eating/learning the different cuts of beef in the last 3 years.

They don't teach you this stuff in school or even in the supermarket -- you have to care on your own.

xp kenan

nope, not Jewish. did grow up with poorly made pork chops (sorry, Mom), and wanted nothing to do with pork until a couple of years ago (my gf changed my life by cooking me her pork loin recipe, which rivals the best Filet Mignon I've ever had, and is a serious candidate for a death row meal). both fish and pork are fairly recently acquired tastes for me. I think a big reason why is because I realized my body just does not digest beef very well the older I get, so I had to try some stuff.

xxp I fear a day when all butchers are supermarket butchers instead of old-school, skilled masters of the carcasses.

Gotta go with pork strictly for all the sausages. Fish and other seafood would be the close second. But in terms of what I actually eat the most, chicken would win by a substantial margin.

yeah I definitely eat more chicken than anything else, but it's like my 5th choice on that list.

Right after a friend gave me his old slow cooker, I immediately went into the grocery store and up to the meat counter and asked for shoulder. I even explained my intentions: "I'm making a pot roast. A center cut would be best, chuck will work, an arm roast will suffice. Top blade? Bottom blade? Bottom round? Anything?" They looked at me like... like you'd look at me if I'd just said that to you. This is the meat department, right?

Apparently the butcher in a supermarket knows as much about how to cut up a cow as I know about how to cut a sandwich in half, and no more.

Without mutton this poll's worth nuttin'.

I'm in the tofu crew, haven't eaten meat for 13 years.

pork, just cuz it's so varied

Right, Lisa. Some wonderful, magical animal.

another jew for jamon over here

duck duck goose

jew for jambon?
xpost

jews for jabon

chicken, then fish maybe. beef and pork are great but I'm not so good at cooking them. skinning fish w/a proper knife is possibly the food prep I enjoy the most.

Pork belly, propped up on some halved apples, water in the roasting dish, roasted for 4 hours on a low heat, topping the water up so it steams as it roasts, fatty-side-up so it bastes itself with its own fat as it cooks, and salt rubbed into the fat so it crisps, served with apple sauce and roast parsnips and roast potatoes and gravy made with the water from the pork belly roasting dish... FUCKING HEAVEN.

Pork

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Meat is murder! (someone had to say it on this thread, really)

After all that talk up there, I almost forgot to vote in my own poll. After careful deliberation, I decided to go with pork.

Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

Meat is murder! (someone had to say it on this thread, really)

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 17, 2009 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

pork is the best, but so bad 4 u

i voted pork for versatility but i might actually like ostrich better

Fish > Pigs > Mollusks, Crustaceans > Beef > cute lil' delicious lambs > goat > birds in general > wabbit > frog legs, turtle soup, grilled snake, etc

Would have voted roo if it was there.. maybe. For versatility and low fat I'm thinking chicken; I could eat roast chicken all the time and never tire of it.

same probably (about chicken). i've tried roo a couple of times and while it tastes fine i have problems with the texture. might have not prepared it well?

mutton; chewy texture and gamey flavor is a great combo

Pork easily, although I'm making an effort to cut most meats (and especially pork!) out of my diet.

lamb

Venison, wrapped in bacon.

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Chicken came fifth?

creepy lurking vegetarians

lol @ "creepy lurking vegetarians". I had a feeling that option might do well, but surprised to see it #2. Really surprised to see fish so low, too. I thought for sure fish or pork would take it.

Lamb higher than chicken says more about this board and where people are posting from I think. I have met so many people from the midwest who have never even tried lamb, and consider the idea of eating it to be "weird" like eating goat or kangaroo.

wow fish got jobbed, shoulda owned this poll.

I must be the only (non vegetarian) person who hates pork or something.

There's a FAR higher chance of me hating pork than hating beef or fish or even molluscs/crustaceans (these are if anything the SAFEST bets) but pork can be prepared miraculously in many many many ways.

kinda happy that were fish to be combined with mollusks & crustaceans it woulda beat beef.

i did not see that fish was all broken out like that--still better than pork.

went with fish because I can eat more of it on a regular basis, with pork being equally delicious, but not something I can eat all the time.

poll otm

pork is the best

im realizing i don't really like beef very much

for the most part i guess

in my 12+ years as a vegan/vegetarian, pulled pork & shellfish were the only types of meat that i craved

it was a constant battle to find good quality meats that are not smelly here

i guess people like smelly/bad smelling meat here?

found a good butcher shop over the weekend that sells kurobuta pork, so will be trying that in the next week or so

Pork? Really?

I don't often disagree with you marcos, but other than bacon, pork is boring and smells of farmyards.

Lamb on the other hand...

dog latin i felt that way for a long time growing up w/ my mom's pork chops which were exceptionally dry and boring, but then i embraced the many delicious ways that my dad's family from peru prepared pork which is pretty different, i think getting to know mexican cuisine too has made me realize that meat from pigs is the most versatile and delicious

Oh yeah, my mum's a great cook but her pork chops were never my faves for similar reasons. This might be a transatlantic difference really. As far as I'm lead to believe, the pork and beef industry in America is huge, and naturally that will affect the cuisine. Pork dishes in central and south America must be great, I can imagine. If I'm eating red meat in a restaurant though, I generally choose lamb - a more distinct flavour and something of a treat as even in the UK, lamb isn't terribly cheap. Gimme shellfish over any of these though.

feel like intensively farmed pork chops are one of the worst meats around. they were always dry as a bone when i was a kid, took years to get over that. if i buy them at a nice butcher they are actually a lot nicer.

the pork chop is also prob one of the more boring forms of pork anyway, compared with belly, ribs, sausages, black and white pudding, bacon, etc etc.

in a way i prefer shellfish to all of these, but i think part of its allure is the fact i've eaten less of it in my life.

in another way, maybe chicken is best. have prob eaten more chicken than any other meat. you don't have to do a lot with it and it's not expensive.

the pork chop is also prob one of the more boring forms of pork anyway, compared with belly, ribs, sausages, black and white pudding, bacon, etc etc.

Yeah I think I overlooked pork's versatility. All I think of when I hear the word 'pork' are those dry chops. Nice pork is fab, I take it back.

Re: Chicken, I was thinking about this the other day and despite it being kind of a bit boring, I figured that were I to go vegetarian, it would most likely be chicken that tempts me back. It's versatile and delicious. You can have it in curry, fried, roasted... my god it's good!

chicken is great definitely

lol dl I can see what you're saying but "you can fry it, roast it, put it in a curry" that applies to like all meat

I like all types of chicken...
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haha, you know what i mean.

even though i know it's usually revolting in reality, were i to give up meat it would definitely be walking past one of those crappy 3-piece chicken and chips places that would turn me. I try this meal (sober) approx once a year and always regret it though.

What is the best fish though? I love fish and chips but actually I really don't care for cod in batter. Anything in batter as a matter of fact is a bit of a shame as far as I'm concerned.

I discovered bream the other week and it was amazing.

Joke: Which of these does not belong: a lobster, a flounder, and a Korean man who has been running over by a bus?

Answer: a flounder.

Because the other two are crushedasians.

I DIDN'T CRAWL TO THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN TO EAT SALAD

BLOOD IS WHAT I NEED