Stories: Memorable Meals
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I happily eat fish, crustaceans, molluscs and birds - and yes, I kill all these in order to eat them. (I'll also happily eat mammals that have been shot by me (a rare thing these days) or any of my family or friends (we all kill clean.)
Most memorable meals: the first time I remember tasting flounders:
a flounder net at Purakaunui. me putting my 8yrold strength into hauling it ashore - the fish, taken expertly out of the mesh, *bitten* through the head (this is 1955 & stuff is still pretty Maori with us), gutted with a sharp thumbnail, and dropped into the sizzling pork lard in the *very big* black iron fry pan - ladled out by my mother, Nana, an auntie onto a slice of homemade bread - nothing else, not even salt...And the first time I remember eating garlic: I was maybe 15 and someone person opened a steak & takeaway down the main road in New Brighton. I tried his steak sandwich with this
- stuff- on it! REVELATION!! Next time I went (2 days later) he couldnt provide my new drug - he couldnt obtain any more garlic - but I was hooked for life!!!Yes good people: in 1962 in New Brighton, Christchurch, garlic was an unnown delicacy...
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Would you be interested in some human kebabs or a Lecter like oyster perhaps Sam if your girlfriends family was that way inclined also?
For the sake of manners I was willing to bend about as far as having some of the turtle soup and that was about it. I was jetlagged and surrounded by people I was desperate not to offend, which might have interfered with my moral compass a bit, but I got home to the apartment later that day, fed the terrapins in the window aquarium (did they know?) and promptly swore off the stuff for life.
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