Could you eat every part of a horse?

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Brock Savage said:
Yea that's a head scratcher. Only reason I haven't tried rabbit is that I have been told it isn't very good because it is too lean.
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Ronin Ronin & others already answered that, I'm just going to confirm that it's delicious:thumbsup:!
 
The single time I've tried rabbit, it was at a restaurant where the chef personally hunted everything he cooked. It had a strong flavour, which I didn't really like. I've heard that's how it is with game meat.
 
Giganotosaurus said:
A couple years ago the culinary industry here was rocked with controversy because a restaurant started serving rabbit on the menu. Kid you not people were out in front of the restaurant with signs protesting that they served rabbit. There was eventually a conversation between the protestors and the head honchos of the local restaurant industry where the chefs explained that every piece of meat you eat is maximum a year old.
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I don't get it. What's the problem with eating rabbit?

spittingimage said:
It had a strong flavour, which I didn't really like. I've heard that's how it is with game meat.
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I love game meat.

I'd probably at least try any kind of meat, as long as it looks reasonably edible, is not from an endangered species, and was treated decently during its life.

That said, I'm not a mass consumer of meat. We really don't eat meat all that often.
 
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Brock Savage said:
Yea that's a head scratcher. Only reason I haven't tried rabbit is that I have been told it isn't very good because it is too lean.
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If prepared well, rabbit tastes great. The taste of "wild" rabbit can be rather strong, so you need to balance that out.

There's a restaurant in Tlaxcala in Mexico that serves a delicious dish of wild rabbit in pulque. (Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from fermented agave "milk" of precolumbian Mesoamerican origin. I've had very good and rather bad pulque. Nowadays they also make it with all kinds of added flavors.)
 
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Rabbit tends toward lean which means it can get tough if you treat it as marbled and fatty meat. Think of it in the class of beef round (a very lean cut): you either flame kiss it (barely fry it) and make sure it is well-sourced & healthy, mix it with fat (such as ground beef is lean+fat), smoke it (typically a lower heat) to seal the outside to prevent moisture loss, or cook it low & slow in moisture like stews rices and the like (sous vide is also good).

Lean meat tissue tightens faster under heat thus creating a tougher chewing experience. Adding moisture, preventing moisture loss, and or slower heating helps avoid "overtightening."

And I cannot eat veggies like I used to because they got me very sick. My long-term flirtation with vegetarianism is no longer an option for me as it induced several of my health issues. Meat and saturated animal fats has been healing that over the recent years. But you all do you, boo boo! :smile:

Also all those poster animals are edible. ;) But don't eat anteater or armadillo, they can carry leprosy. :smile: Still safer in edibility than well over half my backyard plants and we have over seven fruit producers alone. ;) Plants, they'll kick your ass when you aren't looking.
 
3rik said:
If prepared well, rabbit tastes great. The taste of "wild" rabbit can be rather strong, so you need to balance that out.

There's a restaurant in Tlaxcala in Mexico that serves a delicious dish of wild rabbit in pulque. (Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from fermented agave "milk" of precolumbian Mesoamerican origin. I've had very good and rather bad pulque. Nowadays they also make it with all kinds of added flavors.)
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Oh man I want to try pulque so badly! Pre-Columbian Meso-America was a big cultural influence for my current campaign and pulque is someone I am dying to try out in real life.
 
Brock Savage said:
Oh man I want to try pulque so badly! Pre-Columbian Meso-America was a big cultural influence for my current campaign and pulque is someone I am dying to try out in real life.
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The ones where they add fruit such as mango are usually pretty good. The pure pulque is very much a hit or miss in my experience. I've had really delicious with a perfect tingle but also too bitter.
 
Brock Savage Brock Savage Anytime! Glad my gastronomic adventures could be put into good use. But everyone, be nice to your tummy and digestive system, we typically don't come into Earth with too many spare body parts. (e.g. You can skip that 3rd kale smoothie or 2nd helping of jellyfish salad for a simple ice cream sundae tonight. :p)

Oh yeah, and don't forget to eat that damn horse!
 
3rik said:
Pulque is an alcoholic drink made from fermented agave "milk" of precolumbian Mesoamerican origin.
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I didn't mean to imply the "milk" is of precolumbian Mesoamerican origin, of course. LOL
 
As to the OP, no. You could certainly use all of the horse, and eat more than those cultures that eat horse do, but there is a good part of most animals that is simply inedible. If that wasn't the case you would not see animal carcasses in the wild, and yet you do. There are many animals less picky than humans with more capable digestive systems. Pretty much nobody eats bones not even insects or bacteria.

Brock Savage said:
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Yeah the order is odd even by US standards. Duck and rabbit are popular game animals, but certainly not on the same level as cows, pigs or chickens, and horses I'd put a step before dogs. There is quite a stigma against eating horse in the US. Is there really a need for a variety of cats and dogs? Its not like we eat some breeds of cat or dog, even the funky hairless cats are pretty safe. You can often buy duck (and goose), and rabbit in a regular grocery store.

Where are the turkeys, deer, elk, goats and geese (particularly the geese). Alligators, snakes, and seafood in its entirety. Alligators are farmed for food and hides as are many fish species. Really no crab, lobster or shrimp? I think I know the answer to the shellfish. I've known a fair share of vegetarians who will make an exception for the occasional taste of shrimp or crab.
 
Brock Savage said:
It is especially cringe-inducing when one agrees with the intended message. Instead of lecturing from on high that eating meat is bad and people should feel bad for eating meat I would appeal to Joe Sixpacks' self interest. If was on the marketing team first thing I'd do is sponsor some vegetarian and semi-vegetarian athletes to show Joe Sixpack that one can reduce or eliminate animal protein from their diet and still be a vigorous stud.
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Lots of naked women holding vegetables suggestively might do it too. PETA should have kept that one going. By now they could have had their own channel on PornHub and been halfway to a meatless world.
 
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Toadmaster said:
As to the OP, no. You could certainly use all of the horse, and eat more than those cultures that eat horse do, but there is a good part of most animals that is simply inedible. If that wasn't the case you would not see animal carcasses in the wild, and yet you do. There are many animals less picky than humans with more capable digestive systems. Pretty much nobody eats bones not even insects or bacteria.
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I know of a few. Wolves will eat the bones they can crack and break up. Not an Elk thighbone, but Elk ribs? Sure. Hell, even huskies eat those. Hyenas will eat the whole damn thing, bones, hooves and hair. After cracking it up with those jaws, there’s nothing on a prey animal they can’t digest, except maybe Elephant bones. Giraffes even grind bones down for minerals, some other herbivores do too.
 
3rik said:
I hear they'll even eat teeth, which is apparently quite exceptional.
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Yeah, their stomach acid has some of the lowest pH, well below 2. The only animal I know of that’s stronger is the Turkey Vulture, whose stomach acid pH is almost zero and can dissolve metals. No pathogen or parasite can survive that stomach. That’s why they can scavenge anything. It’s been suggested they get brought in to help sanitize die-off situations where there are too many animal corpses not to spread disease.
 
CRKrueger said:
Lots of naked women holding vegetables suggestively might do it too. PETA should have kept that one going. By now they could have had their own channel on PornHub and been halfway to a meatless world.
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Ultimately many PornHub videos are about playing hide the salami anyway, this would just be a slightly more literal version.
 
I'm just glad waterfowl has been placed at the front of the line of things to kill and eat. They probably would have put a goose there but vegetarians are known goose sympathisers.
 
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