# Strange food you should really give a try
**URL:** https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938
**Category:** Off-topic
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938 "2017-11-01T12:23:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/390 "2018-06-12T14:39:10Z")
I’ve just remembered these crisps from Christmas time. Winter berries and prosecco flavour.
They basically taste like at a party when someone drops a crisp in their wine.
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/391 "2018-06-12T14:43:07Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#):
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> Winter berries and prosecco flavour.
hic! 🥂
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### Author:  [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/392 "2018-06-12T14:46:13Z")
They have edible gold stars on them, too.
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### Author:  [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/393 "2018-06-12T14:46:55Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#):
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> Winter berries and prosecco flavour.
_Why?!_ 🤦♀️
I mean, who thought this was a good crisp flavour to invent?!
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### Author:  [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/394 "2018-06-12T14:47:52Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#):
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> > [@PiecesOfKate](#):
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> > Winter berries and prosecco flavour.
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> _Why?!_ 🤦♀️
> I mean, who thought this was a good crisp flavour to invent?!
M&S, obviously 😉 I love their food, but sometimes they’re just a bit too experimental. I did like the chocolate covered tortillas they did around the same time, though 🤤
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/395 "2018-06-12T15:00:37Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#):
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> but sometimes they’re just a bit too experimental.
And I bet you curse them for it, because you´re like me and you can´t get yourself not to try.
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### Author:  [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/396 "2018-06-12T15:05:36Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> And I bet you curse them for it, because you´re like me and you can´t get yourself not to try.
Tut, no. Yes.
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### Author:  [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/397 "2018-06-13T13:05:26Z")
So, I was curious, since I learned just a couple of years ago that my eating habits were not common and also frowned upon in other parts of the world.
What’s your opinion on horse meat?
_Poll ([view on site](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/397))_
In (at least southern) Sardinia it’s the standard choice when we talk about “meat”. If you talk about having a steak, 99% of the time it’s horse. However, I know that eating horse is in some countries seen as eating dogs or cats.
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### Author:  [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/398 "2018-06-13T13:21:32Z")
Instinctively, I wouldn’t want to try it. But I don’t judge anyone who does eat it 😉
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/399 "2018-06-13T13:30:12Z")
It´s not that uncommon where I come from actually. There are a few specific horsebutchers I know of, but I haven´t had the chance yet.
However I´d like to know it before hand. If they just “accidentally” put it into the lasagna I take issue with it, because I don´t know what else they could be in there.
Oh and if we were all stuck on an island I´d be the first to try to eat all of you guys, too.
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### Author:  [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/400 "2018-06-13T13:44:46Z")
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> Oh and if we were all stuck on an island I´d be the first to try to eat all of you guys, too.
Well I guess we’d have no choice but to…☠ keep you tied to a tree the whole time.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/401 "2018-06-13T13:48:37Z")
Admit it, you´d just enjoy doing that anway. 😏
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/402 "2018-06-13T13:50:02Z")
Well, there is no difference between horse meat or cow meat. Both are animals. I can understand who says “Stop eating animals”, but cannot understand who says YES to cow meat and NO to horse meat.
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/403 "2018-06-13T13:53:10Z")
Because those big fat ugly things with hooves deserve to be eaten unlike those beautiful things with hooves and awesome manes, you see.
I had a friend who of course had to try escargots in france. “Just meat” he said. He also said he´d eat a dog if he ever went to china (one of the top things on his bucket list for a potentional china visit, probably).
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### Author:  [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/404 "2018-06-13T13:54:22Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> Well, there is no difference between horse meat or cow meat. Both are animals.
> [@Guga](#):
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> I know that eating horse is in some countries seen as eating dogs or cats.
And what about cats, @ZakPhoenixMcKracken?
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### Author:  [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/405 "2018-06-13T13:56:43Z")
> [@Guga](#):
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> I know that eating horse is in some countries seen as eating dogs or cats.
And in other countries like where @TaarakVakil comes from, it´s cows!
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### Author:  [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/406 "2018-06-13T14:05:53Z")
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> Well, there is no difference between horse meat or cow meat. Both are animals. I can understand who says “Stop eating animals”, but cannot understand who says YES to cow meat and NO to horse meat.
Well, there are some sorts of agreement between species, that date back from early step of civilization.
Cats. Since the times of Ancient Egypt, humans learned how those clever and serene animals, when domesticated, were efficient in defending homes and storage pits from mice and other animals that eat the products of agriculture and hunting. Then they were rewarded with a pact between species, and they become probably friends of humans, that started to protect them and letting them benefit from their food and homes.
Dogs. Agreement between humans and dogs is even more ancient. Those loyal animals, when domesticated, were useful to protect flocks and sheperds even before agriculture (and settlements and cities and history that all come from agriculture).
Then the nature of those taboos is all in the prohibition of breaking those agreements of mutual protection and help between species.
A similar thought could be done for horses (they helped man in many ways).
While for other animals they are just slaves of the human species and used for meat. They are forced into that\*.
\*Note that I disapprove this behaviour, which is particularly heir to mechanization of animal farming.
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### Author:  [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/ZakPhoenixMcKracken)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/407 "2018-06-13T16:01:54Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#):
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> And what about cats, @ZakPhoenixMcKracken?
In Italy there is a law that prohibits to kill, cook or eat cats and dogs.
If there weren’t such a law, I think that some people would cook and eat even cats and dogs.
It’s a matter of affection of each individual.
One can eat only insects, for instance, because all the other animals are considered pets.
Some eastern people don’t care to eat cats and dogs, for instance.
I would never eat a cat, because I have cats and love them.
Probably, if I had a mosquito pet, I would never kill mosquitoes.
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### Author:  [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/408 "2018-06-13T18:00:53Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#):
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> They have edible gold stars on them, too.
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… and a touch of fizz!
Monkey island spoiler: fizz root beer?
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> Oh and if we were all stuck on an island I´d be the first to try to eat all of you guys, too.
Erm… never mind! insert your own dirty joke here
> [@milanfahrnholz](#):
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> Admit it, you´d just enjoy doing that anway. 😏
Getting all kinds of _Lord of the flies_ images in my head
> [@ZakPhoenixMcKracken](#):
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> Probably, if I had a mosquito pet, I would never kill mosquitoes.
And now you just kill them without eating them. What a waste.
I think you made an interesting point in not understanding people who distinguish between not having an issue with eating one animal but do have issues with eating other animals. At first I wanted to reply: 99% of the world would disagree with you, but if I take that as “ok, I don’t have to eat any animal myself - but I am ok if someone else wants to give it a try.”
Personally I stick with beef, pork, chicken and fish/crustaceans (notice how for mammals the meat gets a name different from the animal (inEnglish at least) to create some distance…)
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### Author:  [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/strange-food-you-should-really-give-a-try/1938/409 "2018-06-13T18:51:33Z")
The issue with a single multi-reply that Discourse suggests is that you don’t know which part people like. So I’m just gonna assume you all have a dirty mind 🤣
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