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Baskin-Robbins is hawking an ice-cream dish covered in candy spiders. Okay, that's a decent Halloween pile, I suppose, but they're calling it "The 'Fear-Factor' Sundae" to hook into the idiotic POX program.

Yup, nothing makes me hungrier than "Fear Factor." How about a cheese-covered choco sundae shaped like cowflop in honor of California's popular "It's The Cheese" commercials?

I'd make a joke about a genital-shaped cake, but...well, there we are. But at least they aren't advertised on the Boob Tube. (Ha-ha.)

Hey, spiders is a delicacy! I was watching the discovery channel once see..and these natives hunted and captured tarantulas that spanned a foot long. They scraped off the spiney needles, squeezed out the eggs into a seperate leaf and put that on the fire to make some kind of omlet. Then they cook the spider and ate that badman like a hamburger!

I bet they'd be shocked to learn if they came to america they could win tens of thousands of dollars for doing that kind of stuff on tv.

I don't know about any of you but I have to admit if someone cooked up a spider and said "try it, it's good!', I'd sample it.  I really would!  I've always wondered what fried tarantula tasted like.  I will try out ALMOST anything fleshy and nutricious.  No joke.  (I have my limits though)

The most exotic meat I've eaten was kangaroo while in Australia last year.  It tastes like regular steak only with a more natural robust flavor.  I highly recommend it!

The whole issue over anal leakage.

Found it, Olestra:
http://www.vegsource.com/attwood/olestra.htm

"I just had some chips and now my underwear looks like a Dalmatian..."

I am glad that I do not eat potato chips.

Well ash your a prime candidate for bug camp. There are bug societies nationwide that believe the true path to proper nutrition is the consumption of crickets, worms and other types of insects because of their high source protein. These are usually advocates of animal rights in that they don't believe in farms that raise cows and such in confined areas in unhealthy conditions for our consumption..and that meat causes clogged arteries and all that. I saw a show, they demonstrate often to kids how to cook bugs, saute and fry.  Personally i'd rather eat a cow or pig that was raised on an organic farmers land than eat larve..but hey, that's just me.


Andrew, I think that olestra thing is a myth to people or only affect people with sensitive bowels or who eat gobs of it. I know scientists state it "may" cause it in "some" people, I just think those people have freaky bowel habits to begin with.The only potato chips I have in my house are made with olestra and i have never, ever had a problem. Nor has anyone i've known. I had to laugh at a story I heard about a guy who sued because he ate some and sat on the toilet thinking he was literally going to be with jesus. I think he probably read the warning label on the bag (something he never saw on a food product) and saw his opportunity. if Ruffles ever did pay that man for pain and suffering due to diarrhea, i truly want out of this nation.  ;-)

Btw, do you all know that scientists now have evidence that french fries and regular potato chips have cancer causing agents because of the intense heat changing chemical compounds in starch?

ahh..death by french fry. Wonder if the surgeon general will have to put warning labels on them. Maybe in public they'll start having a french fry and a non french fry eating section, and chips will be banned from airplanes entirely.

Ewwwwww........
.... I brought my friend Steve some stuff i found in England. White Chocolate Maggots, and Chocolate spiders. If he did not keep a kosher diet....you and him could chow down!
....Gag. He used to keep Tarantulas, Madagascar Hissing cockroaches, pythons,and other weird pets.....who knew that in some countries, he had a smorgasboard?
....Great, now i'm remembering that post long ago where someone wrote of disgusting canned food. Vegamite, SPAM (Stuff poseing as meat), and other goodies. Also that gag in "Beginning of the end" where the clown talks about eating choclate covered grasshoppers, and the other guy tells him to look out, they might get even.

Hey, spam is delicious and nutricious! Sure it's minced, but it's pork shoulder.

Hot Dogs, bologne, etc. are scarier. Make sure when you buy meat there is nothing about byproducts or "variety meat" on it. I quit eating salami when I realized "beef hearts" were in it. I dunno, i just couldn't get past it. It lists the beef hearts on the package, but when you see "Variety meat" that means it could be anything. That considered, SPAM is the least of your worries. ;-)

For the most part we all eat bugs, there's a certain amount of them in most canned food reported by the FDA. They just can't simply get them all out (mostly i refer to canned veggies and fruits).

Geletin is made of cattle skin, pig skin and bone marrow.

I think the idea is that half the time we are ignorant, either voluntarily or by lack of provided information, of what exactly we are eating. At least the natives cooking up their spiders know what they are putting into their mouth. Do we?

Soylent Green anyone?

Along with capsule b-movie reviews, Forrest Walter has "Food I Fear" on his website:

http://www.forrestwalter.com/food.html

"We tortured each other with it for a while before I threw it away. "

- That line always makes me crack up.

Tarantulas?! I'll give you tarantulas! Apparently, there is a town in Cambodia, that supplements the income it gets from agriculture by selling fried tarantulas... Supposedly, they are crunchy on the outside and gooey on the inside. Like fried crickets, but only better. I can't comment on either, Never having tried either. Still working up my courage to try escargot or snails. Enjoy!

Few foods I actually fear, those mainly include mystery meat and byproducts. But of "common" items found in most grocery stores and kitchens there are a few that simply turn me green. Why? I dunno. We all have our quirks. And i'd be simply thrilled if any of these products were erased from existance forever!

Pimento. Whether it's in cheese or stuffed green olives (which that in itself is my nightmare realized). Firstly i don't like "things" in my cheese..and I have a distaste for spreadable cheese to begin with. Unless it's cream cheese. People do really scary things with cheese.

Chef Boyardee products - in particular their alleged "beef" products (ie: meatballs). Somehow I just can't accept that it's actually real meat.

sourkraut will make me dry heave, I can't imagine how the rancid smell of that stuff can make anybody's mouth water.

And, in one word....PATE

I agree on the sauerkraut/liberty cabbage.  If I walk into a room where it's being prepared I have to turn around and walk out.  My mother used to make "fried corn".  UUGGH!!  I like corn and all but when it's taken and fried in a skillet with a little grease...well you get the picture.  It is absolutely disgusting!

Susan wrote:
 
> sourkraut will make me dry heave, I can't imagine how the
> rancid smell of that stuff can make anybody's mouth water.

I hate it too but every New Years Eve at midnight I cram it down my throat somehow.

FOOD I FEAR! Thats the one! I knew Andrew had a terrifying link like that one time.....man...."Daves insanity sauce". My friend Barbra can handle hot sauce that would make my nose hair catch fire.....i went to the P.R.O. gun show, and got her a bottle with a skull for a cap, and a black robe draped down the neck of the bottle....it's called "Ass Reaper". I wait for the day she trys that one! The day i find a hot suace she can't handle....the Guinnes book is mine!

I used to travel on the road with a bottle of "Hot Sauce From Hell"  It was a bottle of Habenero Chili sauce I used to spice up my food with.  Good stuff.  (Being used to food from New Mexico, it was hard finding anything with enough bite on it  in places like Kansas City and Omaha)

When my wife makes enchiladas, I tell her "If it doesn't make my eyes water and my ears sweat, it's not hot enough"

The mention of the Foods I Fear site made me think of this one. Never had it before (I don't think it's even sold in Canada), but the picture on the can is enough to make me cringe. I'm also a little suspicious of anything that has to have "food product" tacked onto the end of the name, because it can't legally be called meat. Having some of the ingredients described as "tissue" is also less than reassuring, especially the partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue.

As for the broiled tarantula, I'd probably try a piece. We pay big bucks to eat lobsters, crabs and shimp, and they're little more than big water bugs. Why not eat a tarantula if it's got enough meat on it. I also find it odd that some of the same people who would freak out if offered a piece of roasted reptile will gladly take a piece of fish - a slimy, scaly, bulgy-eyed, wiggly, legless, gill-breathing creature that eats bugs and worms. Some gourmet types go as far as to serve them whole, with the head still on, and people's mouths water.

Of course fish is great. I love it. But imagine if you couldn't get past the thing's appearance. There really is a lot of inconsistancy in what people reckon to be delicious or disgusting.

Too bad bad-candy.com seems to have shut down. Nasty and funny, complete with videos of "taste tests." I guess the Circus Peanuts people finally got to them...

I love squid. Mmmm, mmmm!

A few months ago I posted a link to a story about a Japanese company marketing some sort of canned meat as "Godzilla In A Can"

>Firstly i don't like "things" in my cheese

 I guess you wouldn't want any 'maggot cheese' then...

One food that I refuse to eat is boiled hotdogs. I like fried hotdogs, but boiled, YECH!

Speaking of hot dogs and cheese, there was (maybe still is) a product out there that had these jumbo hotdogs stuffed with cheese. I had a friend who used to buy them and ..i just couldn't go there

We should start a 'play with your food' thread on interesting food combinations or eating habits we have. (ie: i only eat pizza with a fork and a knife..i didn't used to be that way!) It's not an issue with greasy fingers, i love nothing more than eating with my hands. Go figure

I also put potato chips in my sandwhiches and ..oh..the BEST, dip mcdonalds french fries (they can't be soggy) into hot fudge sundea. I heard some people do this with milkshakes but i like getting that bit of chocolate syrup on it. Something about salty and sweet go together. but i digress

Glad to hear other people don't like boiled weiners. Grilled, baked, fried for me, in that order. Boiled meat is just gross. I also agree with Susan about hot dogs with cheese in them. When cheese is put into sausage or burgers, the meat never gets properly cooked, at least not to my liking. Either that or the cheese melts out all over and burns while I'm trying to get the meat cooked. I'm tempted to write a letter to some of these companies pointing out that it requires much more time and heat to cook meat than it does to melt cheese. Better to put it on top, after the meat is cooked.

How does everybody like their steak? Personally, I like mine very well done. I mean, I like it to be put on a low flame and forgotten. Not burnt, but just very, very well done and dry, almost like leather, with the fat completely melted out and crispy around the edges.

If there is one thing I'm picky about, it's meat. There are few things I dislike more than pink, soggy, fatty meat, but so many people love it, and they think I'm weird. I've seen somebody throw a beautiful piece of sirloin on a high flame, give it a quick flip, and then serve it. He cut into it, and the brown colour had no depth - pink all the way through. I've seen people char the living crap out of the outside and leave the middle bleeding. I couldn't eat it like that.

In the field of strange meals, nobody I've ever met can beat my grandfather. During his youth he ate thinks like a roast hedgedog (the fire completely burns that spines) or lizards in tomato sauce. That were very bad times for our country, so I guess that explains everything. Whenever I ask him about it, he replies the hedgedog was quite tasty.

And what about snails? Do you have any place in the USA where they are served? I know they are common stuff in France and some places of Italy. Here in Lleida, on the north-east corner of Spain they are considered a local delicacy, and you'd have to see the looks from strangers when they see a dish of snails with tomato sauce or with all-i-oli (mayonaisse with garlic). My brother in law looks like he is an exception, though, he always has them whenever he pays us a visit.

Don't know why I didn't think of this before, but here is one of the most nauseating things I've ever seen on a plate.

When I was a kid, we used to visit some friends who owned a cottage in northern Ontario every summer. The father of that family, Ralph, had the most peculiar habit for eating breakfast. He would take a plate of pancakes, sunny-side-up eggs, rubbery bacon and whatever else happened to be on the table. Then he would go over the entire thing with a knife and fork, cutting everything into little pieces. Then he would pour on maple syrup and ketchup and stir the entire plate together with his fork. I'd just stare at the mess of soggy pancake and jiggling egg white and bacon fat, as the syrup, ketchup and yolk swirled together with a squishy, slurpy sound. Then Ralph would shovel the whole mess into his face. Incredible.

Count me in with the RARE people.  I eat my steak as bloody as I can get it, although I do usually cook it until the middle gains some texture.  Even worse, I take my hamburgers rare too.  Hey, you got to risk a little food poisoning for deliciousness.

I think people place too much emphasis on things being cooked.  Other than for health reasons (you wouldn't eat an uncooked pork chop), most food is fine uncooked or rare.  Different taste, but not bad at all.  Like salmon.  Go to a sushi bar sometime.

The wonderful thing about being a human is that we can eat almost anything.  FEAR FACTOR is for the tame.  My grandmas like a delicacy they call "stink eggs".  You take salmon eggs and bury them in the ground until they ferment.  You could always tell when they were cooking them as the smell could haunt you to the ends of the earth.

Well, I'll try almost anything.  I've had alligator, buffalo, rattlesnake, squid, eel, octopus, fermented fish eggs and other assorted strange stuff.  I wouldn't eat "pet" animals, or primates.  I'd certainly starve to death before I went cannibal.  But other than that, everything is fair game.

Check out this link:
exoticmeats.com (http://www.exoticmeats.com/)

Someone i know who shall remain nameless for fear it would ever leak out...ate dog. While living in the philippines we often attended fairs and cookouts and celebrations (which were usually big deals with the military) But someones these took place off base (ie: not at the nco club or resturaunts) and outdoors with locals serving up the food. Turns out one of the shish-ka-bobs was shish-ka-dog, as noted by our housegirl later who knows the types of meat often used since most local meat was usually pig or chicken or something, not cow. :-o

Personally my meat has to be so well done it doesn't even resemble it was once an animal. I can't eat huge hunks of it anyhow, because i start to get this image that i'm eating flesh..and the more it looks like flesh the less hungry I get which is why i burn most of mine or disguise it in sauce. ;-) I think i was a vegitarian in a past life.

either that or a cow

Medium rare to rare.  I like it pinkish red on the inside, with some blood

Earlier in the thread people mentioned their aversion to boiled hot dogs.  I think I can top that.  I'm 16 so I have a wonderful job at a local fast food resteraunt.  We get a lot of special requests but one lady asked for a deep fried hot dog.  That might not top dog itself but when you really think about it it's fairly gross.

Hey that reminds me of a new trend i've seen in the news lately. No kidding either -

deep fried fried twinkies

I hear some resturaunts have started serving them up. And I thought the twinkie couldn't get scarier

I know a couple of local brunch buffets that cook their sausages and bacon in the deep fryer - for the sake of efficiency I imagine. They're very good - nice brown well-done sausages and perfect crispy bacon. The only flaw is that the bacon comes out curled up, not flat. When you're heaping it on your plate, who cares?

My arteries are clogging just by reading that.  I finally got around to asking a couple native Southerners why folks in the South save bacon grease.  Apparently it is for flavoring for vegetables.  Now I know why there are so many heart attacks down here.

I live in the south, and yep..not only do they use leftover grease in general to flavor foods but it's also cheap to keep re-using grease vs throwing it away. Tho mostly I don't see people using leftover bacon grease but just grease in general.
I don't do it myself. Someone once made me french fries with leftover grease and my fries unfortunately tasted like the last thing they cooked in it...venicin

Oh, a side note: I DO use leftover bacon grease! When I make homemade breakfast gravy I use leftover grease from the bacon I just cooked in order to give the gravy a base flavor before adding milk (mix flour and grease till..oh hell you guys don't care..lol) But then this use is common in resturaunts as well as home kitchens anyhow.

Seems to me that immersing the bacon in a fryer full of hot vegetable oil would remove more cholesterol than frying it in a pan full of its own grease.

Flavouring vegetables with bacon grease sounds interesting. I've heard that the diet in some rural parts of New Brunswick is similar. Actually, the way it was described to me, the vegetables are something to make the meat and potatoes go a little further.

I'm really one to talk. I would class corn chips as a vegetable.

Susan wrote:
>Someone once made me french fries with
> leftover grease and my fries unfortunately tasted like the
> last thing they cooked in it...venicin
>

That's one of the hazards of the brunch buffet. On a few occasions, I've gotten a plate of bacon that tasted like liver.

I wouldn't mind the recipie.  Growing up (in NJ & NY) we would save the bacon grease in a can, storing it in the fridge.  I always thought that that was because you didn't want to dump hot grease in the trash, or down the drain.

These days tho, I rarely eat bacon.  It turns out that pigs are about as intelligent as dogs, and I could never eat a dog.  Cows however, from first hand knowledge, are just plain dumb.

it a nutshell you fry up a couple of pieces of bacon. There's usually just a bit of grease (you can make it less if it's too much). On med stir in flour (with the bottom flat end of a spoon) until it's a runny paste (don't make it too thick or it will clump the gravy) Then turn the heat up and pour in milk..stirring constantly with the flat end of the spoon. Once it begins to bubble a little turn the fire down and let it thicken. nothing to it really.

As for eating pigs because they're smart, I think we underestimate how intelligent some animals are. And if we're basing what we eat on intelligence, vs. respect for life, we're only trying to ease our conscience. Because you could feel a sense of awe for the life of any creature. I've seen documentaries on how intelligent bee's are and ants. They can do a dance and tell the rest of the guys exactly how far in distance and what direction the food is!

 In the end I  think if you want to justify what you eat - it's how the animals were treated on those farms.If you believe in anything karma (you are what you eat) your consuming an animal that suffered to live in tight quarters without air or freedom to go outside crammed in a cement cage with no kind of life, it would make your food souless. At least with organic farms they had spacious happy lives and were free to run outside in the grass (as organic farms have laws and regulations they must follow). So maybe it's better to eat the bacon knowing it was a happy little piggy. ;-)

Funny how we're so sensitive to eating meat. Our ancestors did what they could to survive, we've become so unattatched to the process of even hunting and killing our own food we have no true respect for it, in fact many who do it for the first time cry or are mortified...because it's something we've never had to do before in our life. Be accountable for another life sustaining ours. Many tribes and such respected animals greatly for the sacrifice, just because one must kill for ones own survival (as is the way the world has always been with all creatures)..it's just the cycle of life. In fact most of our ancestors might be revolted by the animals farms we have and the cold and mass marketed way in which our meat is grown, killed and packaged. But i ...once again..have digressed

>: i only eat pizza with a fork and a knife

 I use a fork to chop off the tips of the slices until I pick it up without everything sliding off.

>How does everybody like their steak?

Brown on the outside with at most, a trace amount of pink in the center. On average, I don't care for meat that's still red though. My parents love rare roast beef, but to me it's like gum. No wonder they like it sliced as thinly as possible, if it's more than 1/8 inch thick, you'll spend an hour chewing it.

Well, it might not be that bad if I didn't know that the grease hadn't been changed in months........

The most exotic meat I've eaten was kangaroo while in Australia last year. It tastes like regular steak only with a more natural robust flavor. I highly recommend it!
*****  I had Bison burgers this week and they were much tastier than beef.  Then someone told me they had less fat and cholesterol too.  So why don't we start breeding Bison for meat and send the cows all to India as a good will gesture?

Regarding Squishy's initial post, we're in a strange world when TV shows are paying businesses to advertise for THEM.  I guess the movies started it though.  I've never seen Fear Factor.  Do people eat spiders on that show?

I've had buffalo when I was out west.  Very nice, though if you cook a bit too long it will get tough, then you have to cook it a bit longer to make it tender again.

I think buffalo (ok bison, but I larnt buffalo as a keed, an' I ain't changin') need more room to roam, and aren't as docile as most cattle.  There are some to do raise them, Ted Turner for one.

Not as docile as cattle??  You mean the cowboys won't raise bison/buffalo (I'm not really attached to either word) because they'd rather have the easier and safer task of raising docile little harmless cows?  Man, cowboys used to be tough.  What happened?  Did they start a union or something?

We raised a black angus steer one time, when I was a young pup, those things are ornery.  They'll go through strands of barbed wire, and you can hear it scrapping their hide, but they don't seem to care.

But cows have been domesticated for centuries, that's why I'm guessing they're more docile than wild buffalo.

I guess the cowboys would rather just ride all day than deal with a mad buffalo.  Hell, I would too.

>I've never seen Fear Factor. Do people eat spiders on that show?

Not sure about spiders, but stink bugs, ants, 100 year old eggs, eggs with baby ducks in them, sheep's eyes, worms, pig rectum, blood balls in a plate of worms, giant hissing cockroaches, raw squid, buffalo testicles...

This show would obviously assist me in cutting down on my snacking.  Ick!

They serve the fermented chicken eggs over in Southeast Asia.  They are some sort of delicacy it seems.  Honestly, anything deep fried in the right seasoning tastes good.

I've probably said too much...

Andrew wrote:
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> Honestly, anything deep fried in the right seasoning tastes good.
>
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You ARE a southerner, right?

Chadzilla wrote:
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> You ARE a southerner, right?

No, I am from Delaware.  We never figured out which side we were on.  Our participation in the Civil War looked much like the audience at a tennis match.

They serve the fermented chicken eggs over in Southeast Asia. They are some sort of delicacy it seems. Honestly, anything deep fried in the right seasoning tastes good.
*****  Is that like the eggs that they bury?  They absorb stuff from the soil that people need (nitrates and such) and eat the eggs which turn black.  There's lots of weird stuff you see in different cultures that actually have nutrition benefits.  The Scots used to make an ale with crushed clam shells in it for calcium.

And you're thinking of Long John Silver's batter.  You could fry week-old dead cat's ass in that stuff and it would be good.  They actually SOLD the dried up batter crumbs from the deep fryer as a side order.

Delaware...  EAST of the Mason-Dixon line.

Dano wrote:

> *****  Is that like the eggs that they bury?  They absorb
> stuff from the soil that people need (nitrates and such) and
> eat the eggs which turn black.  

Those are the ones.

regarding those chicken eggs..I used to live in the philippines and eating unborn chickens is more of an aphrodesiac (they even drink the juice from the egg before actually chewing the nearly developed dead chicky up) Then again they have live crucifictions every easter.

sometimes, you're just glad to be an american..lol

Plan to go Deer hunting next year, if i can get my fat butt in shape.
....Blackpowder and Crossbow.
....Ohio has deer out the proverbial wazoo. And i plan on doing it right. No shot without a clear sight picture, and useing the meat and hide. Whitetails are better for you, as the meat has almost no fat. Call me a Ted Nugent kind of guy.
....Some friends are gonna teach me how its done, and its fun just to break out of the rut my city life is in. As a Christian, i worship the Creator, not the creation. But, respect to God is shown in respecting what he made for us. I try to have a balanced approach to wildlife managemant. (I.E.) don't fowl your nest, and respect the gifts ya have, by useing it wisely.
....And i promised Barbara the hide for a jacket. Gotta keep my word. Any of you ever hunted? Andrew maby?

Glad you eat your deer. I hate people who hunt for the fun of it just to hang antlers on their wall. Hunters should always respect what they've taken life from by eating it, otherwise it's a waste and feeds into some kind of superiority god complex..lol. And damn once they clean and package the meat for you, you could literally freeze it and live on it for months.

It's actually a valid thing having deer season open because it does control the population which otherwise run amock since I think there are fewer predetors of the old days out there that would normally control their population. Then I think they overconsume plants..etc.etc.  Must be a guy thing, I could never do it as it's not in my genetic code.

Just don't kill bambi's mom!

It's actually a valid thing having deer season open because it does control the population which otherwise run amock since I think there are fewer predetors of the old days out there that would normally control their population. Then I think they overconsume plants..etc.etc.
*****  Yes to all those things.  Overpopulation in deer also cause them to move around more (to find more food) which causes a sharp rise in traffic accidents.  In upstate NY for the last several years, the hunting season was shortened or something because the deer population has gotten out of control in some areas.  My sister-in-law hit two in the space of less than a month, but thankfully wasn't hurt.

No prob, Susan and Dano.
....My friend Karl passed up a doe (At 12 yards), cause she was too small, and had a fawn. I'd pass up pregnant or fawn leading does, as they will add to the next gen. But, older does and bucks are on my list!
....I can't see wasteing a deer, or other game animal. Its a resource, and should be managed logicly. There is a big problim with Cronic Wasteing Disese in Michigan, and they've had to hold off season clearing hunts , to cut down on the spread of the problim.
....It amazises me, how little folage a deer can live in. I've seen deer by the road side, in places where this city boy would never think deer could live. If i ever get a pickup, i'll definatly want a "Bambi Bumper"! That big 'ol piece if tube steel that keeps antlers out of the drivers lap!
....There are rules to being a respectable hunter. I plan to live by them. Take out your trash, never shoot unless you can see the animal clearly...reminds me. A guy shot his son with a crossbow. The son died. His dad should never have shot at at anything he could not clearly identify. Bet andrew teaches his jarheads the same rule. Troops only fire into brush when they have to. Civilans should never do that!
...One last thing. My friend Karl and his wife got me a member ship in a hunting Club. Me! It'll sure be a nice change of pace for me. Deer and Turkey will be my choice of game. 800 acres statewide to viset. Even if i'm not Daniel Boone...i'll be fun to try. Wish me luck!

That reminds me I think hunters do have to follow guidelines for hunting deer - I knew someone who hunted and fished obsessively and they said that deer with fawns were off limits. The younger fawn won't be able to survive and they want to make sure the newborns get a chance. Idon't know if that goes nationwide but where I live it's one of the regulations hunters are supposed to abide by.

I want my steak medium! I didn't order a damn brick, I ordered a juicy steak! Besides, I have to be able to chew it.

Only thing I'v ever seen bacon grease used for is making gravy(and dang it is good!).

I love Fear Factor! But I probably shouldn't watch it while I'm eating(especially with my imagination), so I'm eating now. :)

I was born just a few miles South of the Mason-Dixson Line. I guess I count as a Southerner.

Around my region you can only hunt does on "doe days" - like five times a season.  Otherwise you have to shoot only bucks.  Also, you can't use a rifle, must use a shotgun.  The logic there is that the terrain is so flat that with a rifle, you could pick the things off from hundreds of yards out and they'd never have a chance.

Funny thing at Fort Belvoir, VA, there were a bunch of deer that got fenced in to large fence-secured area and over the years they got inbred because they couldn't mix with other deer.  So the population got larger and increasingly deranged.  They started attacking cars and finally they had to bring in professional hunters to finish them off.  I believe the meat was sent to homeless shelters in DC.