Pig or Cow?

I clicked the wrong answer.

This is the one hypothetical that I really enjoy.

But I've decided that I would give up beef no problems.

I cannot do with out pork sausages, cured and smoked meats, pork bbq, pork tenderloin, and especially pork belly.

Jamón Iberico. Hell even Jamón Serrano is out of this world. And then you've got the whole range of Italian Salumi.

My mouth is watering now.

 

I could choose between my 4 children....but I could not possibly choose between cow and pig.

 

Easy choice, I don't eat a great deal of pig anyway... I'd give that up.

There's a lot I would give up before I stop eating cows.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Life without steak seems hollow and meaningless. I love me some pulled pork, but nothing compares to a great steak.

 

I'd have to argue a great slab of pork belly.

My logic behind the decision is that I eat good and okay tasting beef most of the time I consume beef and only rarely get the prime taste and texture out of a cow, where as I often eat great tasting pork with a huge variety of applications and textures. Pork is every day tasty where as beef is a one day a week experience.

 

Hmmm... that's a close one - but, yes, I would have to give up haggis before steak.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Take it from someone who's been there; there's more to the pig than meets the eye. Give up pig and say good bye to frosted mini wheats, marshmallows, and refried beans at Chipotle.

 

As a Jew, my choice was pretty easy

However, I've often said that if I EVER had to "grow my own meat" I'd turn
vegetarian in a HEART BEAT!

Jedi

 

haggis comes from sheep. pigs are easier to raise than steers and tastier

 

Is that true?

I'll never forgive Andrew.

 

Jedi, why do Jews abstain from eating pigs? I've heard the explanation that they are deemed to be unclean animals but I'm not sure why/how this was determined to be so.

Yes.

Oh, I knew haggis was sheep-derived, I just thought we were branching out our hypothetical selection to ascertain the relative importance of steak.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Here's a haggis recipe - all you need are a sheep's stomach, liver, heart and tongue...
and a toilet to vomit into

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/haggis-recipe/index.html

Jedi

 

As a Jewish friend says, we don't eat pork for the same reason we don't eat Paris Hilton - it's unclean




Seriously, it's just one of the many dietary laws from Leviticus - Jews are only supposed to
eat meat of animals that chew their cud and have split hooves. (Zillions of other food rules
as well - I don't follow ANY of them really). Pigs have split footsies but don't chew cud.

I do eat pork actually - bacon in burgers and with eggs in restaurants. We just abstain
from COOKING pork in the house as a purely symbolic thing. And for the same symbolic reason,
we don't do pork chops, ham, pork roast, etc.

But for the sake of education for anyone interested: http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm

JewFaq is a great site for basics on all things Jewish.

Jedi

 

Actually, when prepared well in a restaurant, haggis is very tender and flavourful.

The best haggis I've ever had was prepared by a friend's dad and he had literally spent 4 days slow-cooking it.

LOL!

Thanks Jedi.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Interesting site.

It answered a question i had, why a Kosher hotdog commercial (Hebrew National, IIRC)indicated they only use the front half of a cow:

 

I checked the website, but I still don't understand. Why won't my Jewish friend eat when I make turkey burgers with cheese on them? Turkeys don't lactate.

 

I found this on there:

I also found the section on utensils pretty interesting - never knew any of that.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Was the turkey kosher; slaughtered according to the rules?

 

That's one of the age-old paradoxes for "thinking" orthodox Jews. The rabbinical answer
(from where else - the Talmud!) is that since you didn't SEE the turkey or chicken get
made into the patty you can't claim BEFORE GOD that you are CERTAIN there is no
beef in it, so therefore NO meat can mix with dairy - it's a "just to be on the safe side" argument.

Nevermind the fact that a McDonald's burger has beef from cows in South America, and
the cheese comes from Wisconsin - hence a physical impossiblity that the "meat of the
calf is seethed in its mother's milk"....

It's the same thing with grain at Passover - we aren't supposed to eat rice or peanuts
or anything like that, simply because it's POSSIBLE it was in contact with wheat at some
point...

There's really nothing even remotely rational about Jewish dietary laws. I'm just glad
I'm not Orthodox and have to keep Kosher.... would drive me NUTS!!

Jedi

 

It's really not related to that - it's "meat with dairy" in play here. See my previous post.

Jedi