Pigs on spits.....???

I've never tried pig-on-a-spit, but I'd love to – it's a great traditional cooking method, and sounds like it'd be delicious.

This queasiness about the reality of meat is a very recent phenomenon. Up until very recently, most humans have killed and eaten their own animals, often animals they've personally bred and raised.

Did anyone see Kill it, Cook it, Eat it on BBC a couple of weeks ago? A group of ordinary meat-eating punters are gathered at a special abattoir with big windows installed and have to watch the bullock arrive, get stunned, its throat slit - the whole process - and then freshly cut steaks from the same animal are cooked and served to them within about 20 minutes of its death.
It was really interesting to see the different reactions - some people got very upset, a few people cried, but in the end most of them were willing to eat the meat.
Admittedly parts of it were a bit disturbing (even though the animal is completely unconscious, it keeps moving and kicking during the kill because of automatic muscle reactions). Naturally enough, it got easier to watch the less it looked like an animal; once the head, feet and skin were removed, I was able to relax a bit as it was now 'meat' rather than a poor old dead bullock.

I made myself watch it because although I'm a majorly sentimental animal-lover, I absolutely think it's ethically ok to eat animals, and I think it's only fair to properly understand the whole process.

If you're happy to eat meat, you have to be fine with the knowledge that it's a dead animal that has been killed for your pleasure. If you're not ok with that, fair enough, be a vegetarian.

It is the nicest way to cook pork.

The slower it is cooked the better. Best to let it slowly roast for about 8 hours. Get some bread rolls, ideally a very fresh bap and a little butter and use a little of the juice/gravy as ur mayo and stuff it with thick hot slices of that slow roasted meat marvel. you wont get a nicer sandwich. It is incredibly tender and tasty when cooked slowly.

I never had any problem with the aesthetics but I love meat. I always do hope the animals were humanely reared and slaughtered.

conorhal wrote: »

Ahhh bacon, or vegatarian kryptonite as I like to refer to it....

Many a veggie has staggerd down stairs hung over to f*** and fallen off the wagon as soon as they smelled the fry up going on in the kitchen. It's always the bacon that gets them in the end.

As for a hog roast, I blame my childhood love of Asterix and Obelix for the fact that my mouth is watering right now...

Mrs Mattjack discovered a few years ago that she had Jewish ancestry and decided to go through a charade of giving up pork ... that was an invitation for me and the four 'little 'uns' to eat rasher and batch bread sammichs... she lasted about three hours.

SocSocPol wrote: »

Not in the least bit gross, have had a it few times in Serbia and in Montenegro
absolutley delicious, you need to open your eyes to a wider world!

They do it in Ireland quite a lot as well.

For anyone in dublin..... Visited a few weeks ago.... Nom Nom Nom...


http://aussiebbq.ie/menu.html

i don't know why, but I have endless contempt for anyone who will eat meat, but will not confront the reality that this was an animal at some point.

either

A) understand that this thing was killed on your behalf and you are comfortable with that

or

have the courage of your convictions and do the right thing in your mind by not eating meat.


anything else is childish.

Yeah, very much in the camp of man the fook up and acknowledge what meat actually is or go vegetarian. I'd like if everyone had some involvement in their own provision at some point. People would appreciate meat a lot more if in order to get it they had to hunt it, kill it and butcher it. There'd also be a lot more vegetarians.

This thread deserves to be in Beer Guts and Receeding Hairlines, they'd appreciate it there,, mmmm lovely crackly Bacon