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Black Anus Beef
May. 30th, 2007 09:19 am
I haven't had the rare pleasure of catching one of the Jack inna Box commercials comparing Black Angus beef to beef anus. Being from California, I know Black Angus to be some succulent, rich cow meat. I've seen real, live Black Angus, & they sort of look like small Brahma or fat longhorns. Happy cows come from California. Being an intrepid internet explorer, I also know that the Black Angus is a hardy and efficiently producing offshoot of the Scottish Angus cattle.
I just reflected to Rob that my parents were southern. Southern folk eat anything that runs slower than they do & they don't waste much. Anus is not a new food to us. We're talking people who consider pickled pigs' feet a delicacy. The Latin community has menudo, aka chitlins, aka pork intestine... If burgers were made from ani, well, it's menudo packaged conveniently to go. Of course, Jack inna Box is being sued by Carl's Jr. & Hardee's, & probably soon by McDonald's & probably Burger King. I'm telling ya, though, if you think a McDonald's Angus burger is going to taste anything like a nice prime rib of Black Angus, well... you've been eating fast food too much.
Rob said he'd rather eat an Assburger than a Tumorburger any day, and we've probably been eating tumorburgers on a regular basis. 'Nuff to make an inveterate carnivore seriously consider vegetarianism. Marginally consider vegetarianism. Well, now that I think about it, I've probably been eating tumorburgers all my life & so far I've had no ill effects. I did take a sabbatical from beef ribs after learning about grave wax (adipocere) and I have stopped eating all the fat on my prime rib & can't pick up the habit again... mmm, adipocere, that's all that I think about when I see that thick white rind around my steak. That's my gross-out line in the sand right there. I will eat anything that runs slower than I do, but it has to still be alive when I kill it & grill it. I would try cannibalism, but that body better be fresh (ooh, that reminds me - Hannibal Rising is out on video this week!).
Rob relayed a news report on sodium benzoate to me, saying a doctor had discovered a correlation between it & Parkinson's & various cancers & probably a few other things as well. I told Rob to call his mom & tell her because maybe she'll starve to death (ain't I nice?). He said she wouldn't starve, but she'd probably starve his dad. She already has a million restrictions on his diet. Sodium benzoate has been used in foods for so long now... we'd all be dead by now. MSG, phenyl things, preservatives... maybe people are actually living longer because of all the food additives & preservatives. Just think... all of us walking around carefully preserved & bacteria-resistant thanks to sodium benzoate. We'll all make such pretty corpses. Maybe the funeral homes won't have to use as much embalming fluid in the future.
Mmm, adipocere.
I just reflected to Rob that my parents were southern. Southern folk eat anything that runs slower than they do & they don't waste much. Anus is not a new food to us. We're talking people who consider pickled pigs' feet a delicacy. The Latin community has menudo, aka chitlins, aka pork intestine... If burgers were made from ani, well, it's menudo packaged conveniently to go. Of course, Jack inna Box is being sued by Carl's Jr. & Hardee's, & probably soon by McDonald's & probably Burger King. I'm telling ya, though, if you think a McDonald's Angus burger is going to taste anything like a nice prime rib of Black Angus, well... you've been eating fast food too much.
Rob said he'd rather eat an Assburger than a Tumorburger any day, and we've probably been eating tumorburgers on a regular basis. 'Nuff to make an inveterate carnivore seriously consider vegetarianism. Marginally consider vegetarianism. Well, now that I think about it, I've probably been eating tumorburgers all my life & so far I've had no ill effects. I did take a sabbatical from beef ribs after learning about grave wax (adipocere) and I have stopped eating all the fat on my prime rib & can't pick up the habit again... mmm, adipocere, that's all that I think about when I see that thick white rind around my steak. That's my gross-out line in the sand right there. I will eat anything that runs slower than I do, but it has to still be alive when I kill it & grill it. I would try cannibalism, but that body better be fresh (ooh, that reminds me - Hannibal Rising is out on video this week!).
Rob relayed a news report on sodium benzoate to me, saying a doctor had discovered a correlation between it & Parkinson's & various cancers & probably a few other things as well. I told Rob to call his mom & tell her because maybe she'll starve to death (ain't I nice?). He said she wouldn't starve, but she'd probably starve his dad. She already has a million restrictions on his diet. Sodium benzoate has been used in foods for so long now... we'd all be dead by now. MSG, phenyl things, preservatives... maybe people are actually living longer because of all the food additives & preservatives. Just think... all of us walking around carefully preserved & bacteria-resistant thanks to sodium benzoate. We'll all make such pretty corpses. Maybe the funeral homes won't have to use as much embalming fluid in the future.
Mmm, adipocere.
