FOIE GRAIS N VEAL
22 January 2009, 10:59 PM
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FOIE GRAIS N VEAL
I am an avid fan. Mainly because i grew up on food like this. Plus my wife wife is french decendecy. I just wondered how many of you enjoy this fantastic French cuisine. But before you comment, we dont all live on council ****e
22 January 2009, 11:01 PM
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If it's French Goie Gras, then I am assuming it's been force fed to produce the fat liver?
I've never tried either so cannot comment if it tastes nice or not, and whether the means justify the end
I've never tried either so cannot comment if it tastes nice or not, and whether the means justify the end
22 January 2009, 11:12 PM
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23 January 2009, 12:38 AM
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disgusting, believe me most (not all) french food is sh!te
you can get a better meal in a pub in england at half the price than in many so called decent restaurants in France
Fois gras is disgusting stuff (haven't got a tongue for it) and whats worse is how its made.
you can get a better meal in a pub in england at half the price than in many so called decent restaurants in France
Fois gras is disgusting stuff (haven't got a tongue for it) and whats worse is how its made.
23 January 2009, 12:42 AM
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23 January 2009, 01:30 AM
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Those veals are dangerous mind... Why else would you keep them locked up? A full body muzzle stops them injuring people.
..And you get free range ones... With castors on the bottom of the cage.
..And you get free range ones... With castors on the bottom of the cage.
23 January 2009, 09:12 AM
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I love foie gras and buy loads when we go to France, although it tends to be duck as opposed to goose which is not as good.
I remember going to a restaurant years ago where they were having a celebration of foie gras - it was heaven!!
I remember going to a restaurant years ago where they were having a celebration of foie gras - it was heaven!!
23 January 2009, 10:26 AM
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23 January 2009, 10:28 AM
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A match made in heaven!
LOL at the "hate French food" comment.
Ketchup with your steak n chips sir?!
UK veal is actually NOT cruel - they use meat from male dairy calves that all get shot and dumped if not used for veal and they aren't kept in dark conditions. A few local butchers sell it and it's fantastic.
And no trip to France is complete without Foie Gras.
LOL at the "hate French food" comment.
Ketchup with your steak n chips sir?!
UK veal is actually NOT cruel - they use meat from male dairy calves that all get shot and dumped if not used for veal and they aren't kept in dark conditions. A few local butchers sell it and it's fantastic.
And no trip to France is complete without Foie Gras.
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23 January 2009, 10:32 AM
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i had the foie gras terrine at Rules restaurant a few weeks ago. If you want a menu that's an object lesson in "ooh poor thing" then this is the place to go.
23 January 2009, 10:37 AM
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23 January 2009, 12:48 PM
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People who think veal, foie gras or similar is cruel should give up using all animal products or STFU.
23 January 2009, 12:53 PM
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I like lots of stuff that most people nowadays would turn their nose up at!
Liver,kidney,black pudding,crackling(even with hairs) belly draft etc etc
Obviously not posh fare but people seem to avoid the lovely good for you foods and only eat things like chicken breasts.
Have we all gone a bit wet?
Liver,kidney,black pudding,crackling(even with hairs) belly draft etc etc
Obviously not posh fare but people seem to avoid the lovely good for you foods and only eat things like chicken breasts.
Have we all gone a bit wet?
23 January 2009, 07:05 PM
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Our French property is next to a veal farm in the Limousin.
The cows are kept in pastures, moved to fresh ones daily, and are really looked after. The only mildly cruel bit is that the young male calves are sold for slaughter before they are really ready to leave their mothers. The mothers low a bit for a day or so.
The cows live indoors over the winter in spacious pens with daily food, clean water, mucked out daily etc.
This guy's veal is locally famous, and he truly loves his animals, I've seen both him AND his wife looking like zombies in calving season when they've been up all night with a difficult birth, then worked all day too............and worked means dawn 'till dusk.
The cows are kept in pastures, moved to fresh ones daily, and are really looked after. The only mildly cruel bit is that the young male calves are sold for slaughter before they are really ready to leave their mothers. The mothers low a bit for a day or so.
The cows live indoors over the winter in spacious pens with daily food, clean water, mucked out daily etc.
This guy's veal is locally famous, and he truly loves his animals, I've seen both him AND his wife looking like zombies in calving season when they've been up all night with a difficult birth, then worked all day too............and worked means dawn 'till dusk.
23 January 2009, 07:09 PM
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I think both taste amazing - although I do admit that I'm not comfortable with how they're produced; but then its not that much different to the conditions animals are kept in that end up as 'cheap' meat in supermarkets.