Re: Mayonnaise (safety issues for whole egg home pasteuization)

From: The Real Bev (bashley_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:34:10 -0700

Serendipity wrote:
>
> The Real Bev wrote:
>
> > Mary Fisher wrote:
> >
> >>"The Real Bev" <bashley@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>" Jill." wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>dragonlady wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>So why are htey expensive or are they cheap in the native locale?
> >>>>
> >>>>>(Also stuff like squirrel
> >>>>>and opposum and beaver -- but I've never eaten any of them.)
> >>>>
> >>>>Are these often found on menus?
> >>>
> >>>Jeez, possums (possa?) are so ugly that I'd only eat one if I were
> >>>starving, and even then it would have to have been run over so many
> >>>times it was unrecognizable.
> >>
> >>You don't know what the animal looks like when you're eating its meat ...
> >
> > Thinking about things like that is why I went vegetarian for several
> > years when I was a kid. I still don't want to eat things that have
> > dissectable parts, although I have done so for the same reason that
> > Gordon Liddy held his hand in a fire.
>
> One could argue that plants have dissectable parts. In fact, most
> biology classes dissect plant parts ;)

That's why I took Botany instead of Biology in college. I still like to
say pseudotsuga taxifolia.

> Part of reductionist theory is
> to reduce the whole into the parts so the whole is a sum of the parts.
> Can't get away from reductionism by becoming vegetarian.

Sure I can, just watch me!

> > That being said, each and every little bit of possum would look exactly
> > like a whole one, nasty tail and all. They'd have creepy grey fur,
> > too. Ewwwww.

Damn stupid thing ate every single grape on our vine before they were
ripe. I hope HE was the one that got run over in front of our house... 

-- 
Cheers,
Bev
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