_.-In rec.food.cooking, Matt wrote the following -._
> I'm American, and I am pro-goat-eating. I don't know why so many people are
> anti-goat, but then I don't know why so many are anti-venison, anti-duck,
> anti-rabbit, et cetera ad nauseum.

My dyslexia read that last bit as 'and nasty critter'.

Yes all of those things are very tasty. While I think at first this
American dislike started as a mixture 'thats not normal' during the
move to the cities during the first 2 decades of the 20th cent and
then became formalized during the Great Depression when for many
people /any/ food was a luxury but the farms were only producing the
big money makers like cows, and pigs.

So now pig, cow, chicken and turkey are the only things Americans eat
and as the years went by pigs started to be less fatty, chicken started
to taste more like cardboard and cows just got bigger and bigger.
In the end Americans relying on a diet of tasteless fast food now just
don't like flavor. As a result all of the good things you named above
are now seen as not just non-food items but when eaten taste 'funny'.

> I think that many are of the mind that
> if the animal is cute (are goats cute?) then they won't eat it. Personally,
> it seems to me that the cuter the animal, the more delicious it is.

Especially when it is in a good herb and butter sauce.

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> Perhaps they just need to stop making goats the main attraction at
> so many petting zoos for kids (no pun intended). We definitely need
> more members in the People for the Eating of Tasty Animals club.

Yes.

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