Hey carnivores, this is a thread primarily about meat, but also restaurants, home cooking and favourite meals.
WARNING: Vegetarians, vegans and any other influences that cause you to abstain from eating meat, content in this thread will probably be triggering or offensive, so best not to read any further.
Discussion points: Pick one or as many topics as tickles your fancy to discuss and ask any questions you may have that other OzBer's may answer or give your own opinions or advice for forum members to engage with and discuss, agree/disagree with or use to publicly mock and humiliate you as seems to be how these things usually go.
1: From where do you usually buy your meat? Supermarket, butcher, farm?
2: What influences how you make those choices; price, quality, variety?
3: Grass fed or Grain fed?
4: are you influenced by grading systems such as tenderness or marbling? MSA meat standards for example? Fat marbling standards?
5: How do you feel about Angus Beef?
6: How about Wyagu, what's your take on that?
7: How often do you eat meat?
8: Favourite meat? Beef, lamb, pork, chicken? What cuts?
9: Favourite meal that contains meat?
10: Favourite cut of meat?
11: any special hamburger patty recipe?
12: How about sausages?
13: When dining out at somewhere "posh", are you more likely to order something you know you should like (so you don't waste money on something you don't like) or do you take risks and are an adventurous diner willing to try new things?
14: What is your favourite home cooked meal?
15: What is the most memorable meal you have ever eaten and why?
16: What is the best restaurant meal you have ever eaten, where was it and why was it so good?
17: Do you have a favourite restaurant that you tend to frequently patronise or do you roll the dice, mix it up and consistently try new restaurants?
18: What influences how you choose a restaurant? Online ratings? Word of Mouth recommendations? Other?
19: Did you get caught up in the whole celebrity chef and cooking show hype?
20: Do you like cooking at home?
21: How often do you get creative in the kitchen and what's your specialty/preference?
22: Are your meat purchases influenced by where/how it is sourced? Ie: anywhere in Australia? Prefer a specific state or only buy locally sourced?
23: How about game? Had any? Like it?
24: Do you have an opinion about the ethics of killing animals for food and how they are processed for eating?
25: The slaughter of live animals is really quite barbaric when you think about it - if we did the same to humans, we'd be considered reprehensible criminals liable for lengthy prison sentences and social ostracisation and condemnation. Then imagine if we not only killed and broke down the humans into bite size pieces, but proceeded to cook and eat them, in public and feed them to your family. Ever think about that when you're enjoying your meat?
26: How about seafood? Catching, killing, skinning, gutting, otherwise preparing seafood for human consumption? Good with that?
27: How do you feel about Australian farmers exporting live animals and pre packaged/dressed meat to other countries?
28: Do you believe that the export of meat adversely affects the prices the Australian consumer pays (ie export creates scarcity which drives up the price we pay locally)?
29: and/or is meat export a vehicle to make the production of meat a sustainable endeavour for Australian farmers that makes it viable for Australian farmers to stay in business and provide meat for local consumption? Ie: local demand isn't enough to make the production of meat a viable proposition or financially sustainable for Australian farmers?
30: Talk about anything relevant you choose that I may not have included.
- Hard hat on *
I usually pick the cutest animal, and go from there