I want to try lamb. It’s not that hard to get, lots of people raises sheep, I even know sources but it’s a tad far away for me now. Not very far but I am content with what I can have around here for now.
I barely ate any kind of meat until now (then I realized there is some cute list but considering the possibilities, different parts of animals, it’s barely anything). The father of my SO ate even dog and monkey meat if I remember correctly, he had some traveller friend or something… My SO visited China and he ate eel but nothing more interesting.
I never ever tried ostrich and it is a popular newer trend in Hungary. It would be interesting to eat an ostrich egg. Not all by myself, it’s a tad big for me in one sitting.
I ate kangaroo steak but it was meh. Not surprising, too lean for me but there are other factors, maybe it can be made better?
I ate chicken, duck, once turkey, pheasant, no idea about goose, I don’t remember if that happened… I liked frog legs (it was just like some tasty chicken) and disliked snail and squid and clams are boring too, at least the ones I tried. Shrimp is nice but not very interesting. Octopus is very good (what is it with smart animals and me liking their taste?) and I loved most raw fish in Japanese restaurants I tried. But I typically only like fatty fish. Swordfish is dry and bitter to me but my SO obviously liked it, it’s lean, after all (he ordered it when I ordered my octopus with vinegar so we both were very pleased).
I ate wild boar and very very good deer as well, there are plenty around here. And the basics, pork and beef, obviously, just very rarely and only a few parts. Except… Oh I learn about new English words, it’s brawn or head cheese, it seems. But that’s not what I ate according to the pictures and recipes I’ve found, we don’t add all those veggies but often add some extra nice fatty meat and tons of red pepper, of course, we are Hungarians who can blow keto carb limits with spices if we really try! Some people are disgusted with this food but they are disgusted with blood too, oddballs. I wouldn’t eat just like any animal parts either but the list is probably short. If it’s tasty, not toxic (and there are some other conditions but nothing special), I am probably willing to eat it, what if it’s a nose of a pig? It’s cleaned and cooked and fun and surrounded by meat! And it has only spice as plants (garlic too but it’s spice and the food wouldn’t be the same without it), not like it matters to me, ha! It’s good food if made right and I didn’t eat it since forever. Quite a few years, I think.
We visit my SO’s mom (almost my mother, really) tomorrow again, I can get some from the place where my pretty great chuck came from (I have about 30g left, maybe we should buy some pork shank now). But it costs as much as proper meat and I can’t know if it was made to my liking. But it’s usually very very very good and fun. Why do I do this to myself, I get hungry but I don’t start to eat at 1am, it’s not a good idea and I am not really hungry anyway, it’s so good I can feel that.
That’s about me and meat in my past, I really don’t have much experiences but I had some tasty and memorable encounters and it’s nice to remember them. Oh once our neighbours decided to give us some of the best pork ever right after I went vegetarian. I was very determined and lasted for 3 whole days (I normally don’t resist temptation for 3 minutes). Well, 3 mere days couldn’t ruin the pork. But they didn’t do it again so it was too easy afterwards. Such good meat is hard to find and it avoided me when I had not much determination in my long almost vegetarian years so I mostly ate meat at relatives and in restaurants, it was often tasty (I didn’t even attempt to eat probably bland meat) but rarely amazing. That’s what I’m changing now.
My using of English tenses are bad I know, I’m sorry, it’s my weakness grammar wise but it’s understandable that way too. Modern Hungarian language has only one past tense and it’s enough, it has one present and the future tense is rarely used, present is fine for that too if we say when so it’s clear (or we don’t say it but it’s still clear). Maybe that’s why it’s harder for me in English without thinking about it for some time and I need to revisit the whole thing I guess (I really need to do that soon). But apart from that, English is easy, I learned German too, it was easy enough but gender of words, it’s crazy (especially when it’s different from the biological gender). Not like my language wouldn’t be quite hard to learn, it’s famously so, even way too many Hungarians are bad at it, often quite horribly.
