Foie gras?

[Ns1]

Just read up on it on Wikipedia.

Pro's: tasty as shit

Con's: possibly cruel to the animal. rich as shit.


Anybody here have qualms with foie gras?

 

[PepePeru]

i have qualms with eating liver.

 

[mordantmonkey]

yeah it's cruel. and it doesn't even taste good. unless you like fatty meat-paste.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Awesome stuff. Banned in some localities.

 

[torpid]

It's not all that tasty. Overrated, at the least. I wish it would stop being used in french cooking, although I'm ok with hot doug using it (other than it being illegal in chicago, I mean).

 

[RKS]

If we weren't meant to eat foie gras; neither ducks nor geese would have livers.

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Originally posted by: torpid
It's not all that tasty. Overrated, at the least. I wish it would stop being used in french cooking, although I'm ok with hot doug using it (other than it being illegal in chicago, I mean).

It's only illiegal to sell it in Chicago. Places are getting around that by selling very expensive bread, and "giving" you the foie gras.

 

[LS21]

Overrated. Its alright, but nothing super special

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: elektrolokomotive

Originally posted by: torpid
It's not all that tasty. Overrated, at the least. I wish it would stop being used in french cooking, although I'm ok with hot doug using it (other than it being illegal in chicago, I mean).

It's only illiegal to sell it in Chicago. Places are getting around that by selling very expensive bread, and "giving" you the foie gras.

Is that what hot doug did or is it merely what he should have done?

 

[StevenYoo]

i heart foie gras, but I wouldn't want to eat it every day

 

[spidey07]

Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

 

[Ns1]

I thought it was pretty godly, but I can't have more than like, a stack of 5 poker chips worth before i feel like i'm about to die

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

Well shit, I ate at a half star restaurant and the foie tasted like toro =P

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

Foei Gras isn't chewy (nor does it taste like iron and steel).

 

[Turin39789]

no thank you

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

you're an american and they figured you didn't know foie gras from canned dog food?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I can't understand how force-feeding a goose is that cruel, particularly considering that it's going to be beheaded, dipped into scalding water and defeathered, and then gutted and chopped into pieces.

Foie gras is yet another case of the anthropomorphic factor at play. If you think about it we treat other food in a far more cruel manner. Look at oysters. We pry them open live, slice their attaching tendons, then shovel them in our mouths.

btw, quite often restaurants substitute duck liver for goose liver and call it foie gras. Real, fresh FG almost melts in your mouth. imo, it's delicious but very rich.

 

[D1gger]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

There is no way that it was froi gras that they served you if it was chewy and tasted like iron and steel. You may have been served the dog's lunch.

 

[judasmachine]

no thanks.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: spidey07
Pate is fine and tasty. But I had properly prepared froi gras at really nice restaurant. Tasted like I was sucking on a chewy piece of iron and steel.

if it's chewy i doubt it was properly prepared?

It was a 5 star restaurant in Paris. I assumed it was properly prepared. 😉

They served is what looked like medium rare.

5 star restaurant? Who gave it 5 stars? Normally I'd go by michelin in europe, but that only goes to 3 stars, and I doubt you were at a 3 star restaurant. If it's even present in the michelin guide, it should not be chewy.

 

[RaDragon]

I don't know if I've tried it but I like duck mousse.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I can't understand how force-feeding a goose is that cruel, particularly considering that it's going to be beheaded, dipped into scalding water and defeathered, and then gutted and chopped into pieces.

Foie gras is yet another case of the anthropomorphic factor at play. If you think about it we treat other food in a far more cruel manner. Look at oysters. We pry them open live, slice their attaching tendons, then shovel them in our mouths.

every animal dies. fact of life. its about how they were treated when still alive is the issue.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
I can't understand how force-feeding a goose is that cruel, particularly considering that it's going to be beheaded, dipped into scalding water and defeathered, and then gutted and chopped into pieces.

Foie gras is yet another case of the anthropomorphic factor at play. If you think about it we treat other food in a far more cruel manner. Look at oysters. We pry them open live, slice their attaching tendons, then shovel them in our mouths.

btw, quite often restaurants substitute duck liver for goose liver and call it foie gras. Real, fresh FG almost melts in your mouth. imo, it's delicious but very rich.

doesn't that all happen, after it's dead?

also, oysters are fscking gross.
i don't care how good a loogie might taste, i'm not gonna slurp one down my gullet.