Extreme Cuisine & Strange Ingredients

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Re: Extreme Cuisine & Strange Ingredients

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I don't believe for a minute that the Swiss eat dogs.
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It's wiki so there is an allowance for disbelief but a lot of the times, where there is smoke there is a spit.

I have heard of people eating coyote and wolf meat, I mean wolf, dingo, dog, coyote, jackal, what's the difference?". Their meat probably has the same texture but with slightly differing tastes.
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MidasKnight wrote:I don't believe for a minute that the Swiss eat dogs.
I don't doubt for a second that Flemings ate dogs, cats, rats, squirrels or any animals they could catch during periods of famine:
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Let me know when the Swiss are famished.
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Donkey cheese, anyone?
At £1,000 (+/- $1,600) a kilo it's the most expensive in the world.


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But it has character, depth, less fat than its
Sounds a bit like the images movie stars and Hollywood try to project.
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