Do you ever crave meat?

[KFC911]

Shaun is my favorite vegetarian chef!

[wdfifteen]

Those potatoes look amazing!
Tonight is country ribs seared, then baked low and slow in sauerkraut, mashed potatoes (the last of those I grew last summer), and green beans (down to six jars of those I canned last summer).

[Cajundaddy]

Us old dogs need plenty of protein so when you crave meat, follow your senses. I always appreciate some beef, pork, chicken, fish, and here in Idaho the quality is quite good.

[Seahawk]

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by gregpark

Nope, never craved meat. Didn't like it even when I was a kid but that's what mom made so I ate it. Then in 1974 at 20 years old I thought I'm am adult now, I can eat what I want. The last time I ate mammal was 1974. I still eat sea food and occasionally a bit of fowl

Interesting. It was 1985 for me and I was in an El Torrito restaurant having ordered some kind of beef tacos. Took one bite and haven't eaten anything that has eyes (with the exception of potatoes) since.

As I think about that I wonder if a black eyed pea counts. I can do w/o them along with Brussel sprouts. I guess that includes insects too. I admit I have been curious but never ate an insect that I know of.

I quit eating bacon and any meats that were blended like bologna long before that. How we got "baloney" out of that I will never know. But it it what it is, "baloney." As Patrick says, "ground up random animal parts in a sleeve of even more animal parts."

Patrick, you must have needed salt is all I can think of. Interesting reading suggests stress causes a salt craving.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I just finished homemade carnitas tacos for lunch with a side salad: iceberg, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, some Mexican white cheese, sourdough garlic croutons and a homemade bacon honey mustard vinaigrette. The tacos were of course awesome but the salad was tasty so there's something to be said for veggies.

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Interesting. It was 1985 for me and I was in an El Torrito restaurant having ordered some kind of beef tacos. Took one bite and haven't eaten anything that has eyes (with the exception of potatoes) since.

For me it was ham and eggs in a greasy spoon in Roseburg Oregon. Funny how we remember that day like it was an important event. People sometimes seem uneasy eating with me but the truth is people eating meat doesn't gross me out. I think it's good food and animals are here for people to eat. I just don't like it, that's all.
Quitting sugar, unlike meat, made a significant difference for me. Free sugars have negative effects on the body but the addiction is strong. Stopping sugar made me feel like a drug addict going cold turkey

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Ha. "He don't eat no meat."

Mr. E. Brown said that to me once, over 50 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.
"Ss I don't eat no meat. All I eats is nuts and rice. That's why I'm eatin' these here nuts."
He was such an impressive man.

[gregpark]

Save the bones for Henry Jones cause Henry don't eat no meat

[Steve Carlton]

"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!"

[flatbutt]

A nice chunk of blackened salmon gets my tummy rumbling.

[stevej37]

I was never much of a steak guy until I was in my 40's and had my first rib-eye.
That changed everything.

[rwest]

“She don’t eat meat, but she sure likes the bone” Dead Eye Dick, New Age Girl.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by rwest

“She don’t eat meat, but she sure likes the bone” Dead Eye Dick, New Age Girl.

I haven't heard that song in ages!!!

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[HobieMarty]

https://youtube.com/shorts/hjhjr6yx5Qs?si=WXuZUwJ1j_kjFdhi

Someone please embed this video if you cannot see it. You can thank me later.

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[WPOZZZ]

I used to eat a lot of red meat when I was growing up. Then I ate more pork as a young adult as it was relatively inexpensive. As I aged, I gravitated towards chicken. Now it is primarily chicken and fish.

Once in a while, the gf and I would like to eat some beef, so a good burger or korean bbq will satisfy us. Then we're good for a few months. We went out for her bday lastweek and had some wagyu yakiniku and she had her usual comment about wagyu. It was too oily. I cooked a nice filet for NYE and she was happy. Made some for the dogs, too. They eat more meat than we do.

[jyl]

Sometimes I’ll get a meat craving, and sometimes I’ll get a vegetable craving.

When craving meat, I’ll usually respond with red meat because it is so quick to cook, heck in my opinion beef can be eaten dang near raw. In fact one of my favorite dishes is boeuf hachee which is a mound of raw ground beef topped with a raw egg and cornichons. But only in France. The thing is that beef is so expensive now. I am lucky enough to not notice right away when many things go up and down in price, but beef prices have gotten to the point where I notice and have started actively choosing other meat or fish. I eat beef maybe once a week if you count a carne asada burrito etc - I buy beef to cook at home maybe once every couple weeks. I’m not boycotting beef, don’t have any health or environmental etc reasons to avoid it, just not into spending $40 on protein for one routine family dinner.

As for other meats, I like them all - pork, chicken, lamb especially lamb, duck oh my duck. That’s not completely true - I don’t like turkey, haven’t had much goose or venison, and I don’t know what bologna is but I don’t like it, although I’ll eat a slice just for nostalgia’s sake. We had bologna often when I was little, it was cheap. I think pork may be the most interesting meat to cook. If banished to a desert island with only kind of one meat animal, I might choose swine.

[jhynesrockmtn]

I crave everything right now except yogurt and protein shakes. I had surgery to correct a hiatal hernia and a Nissen Fundoplication to hopefully correct 30+ years of acid reflux that had stopped responding to medication. I'm on a liquid only (yogurt included) diet right now. In anticipation of this I started intermittent fasting to help with hunger pains a month before the surgery. I was down 6 pounds before they cut me. I'm down another 3 a week in. Not the diet plan I would recommend. I can't have bread or meat for another 5 weeks. I can start baby food today.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

https://youtube.com/shorts/hjhjr6yx5Qs?si=WXuZUwJ1j_kjFdhi

Someone please embed this video if you cannot see it. You can thank me later.

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