Prompted by a post in a comm about vegetarian haggis.

[conuly]

Maybe I'm the only one to grasp this, but you don't want to eat haggis. Not even the vegetarian kind. Nor do you want to eat sausage, which is made up of all the parts of the animal you can't sell. Or chitlins, or frogs legs, or snails, or kidney anything. These aren't foods you want to eat, they're foods eaten by people who can't afford any good cuts of meat. The only reason other people eat them is because if they didn't, they'd have to admit that their ancestors were too poor to eat any decent food.

Intestines. Ugh.

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Why are intestines objectionable? And aside from the haggis casing, none of the foods you mentioned even contain intestines.

[conuly]

Kidneys are intestines, sausage casing is... intestines.

And they're objectionable because they just are, much like mangos and squid.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

The intestine refers (to my learning) to the section of the alimentary canal that runs from the stomach to the anus, split into the small and large intestine. I will concede the sausage skin, I had forgotten about that. But the kidneys are part of the urinary system which is completely and utterly unconnected (well in the grand scheme they're connected, blood flow and all that.)

Squid is yummy. Calamari, mmmm. Or even better - baby squid, lightly battered or just floured, seasoned and fried. Oh man now I want them. (Squid just as squid I'm less keen on, when you just have a chunk of it.) I'm not a huge mango fan, the flavour doesn't sit well with me, but I don't see anything wrong with eating them.

[conuly]

*glares*

Okay, innards. Innards are icky. And so are mangos. And squid.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

You eat cheese. Rennet, vital to cheese making, comes from the stomach lining of calves. That's pretty innardy to me ;0)

(Although a synthetic alternative now exists for vegan cheese, but I don't recall you mentioning eating only vegan cheese.)

[conuly]

I try not to eat cheese. It messes with my digestion.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

But you do eat it, I've seen you make reference to eating it. And your reason to avoid it, as I understand, is the lactose, not because it's made using icky animal parts.

[conuly]

Every time I eat it, I regret it, proving my point that cheese is gross. It's rotten milk solids, for god's sake!

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Yup, yucky innards! All that yucky stuff *inside* an animal skin. Ewww! Meat!!!

:-p