Exotic Ingredients

Haggis.

Black Pudding

Offal.

Blade & Chuck Steak

None of which would set the world on fire if it was put up for sale...

On a recent episode of MasterChef, a lady (Of Scotch extraction) cooked Haggis to the absolute disgust of one of the judges & a lot of the viewers too.)

I suppose many were offended at the humble nature of the dish...

But I find this odd; in a world of super exotic ingredients, the only ingredients that count are the "top shelf sort"

Truffles

Scotch fillets only

Wagyu mince...

Himalayan Yak Butter...

Admittedly, some of this is the Heston Bloomenthal "Food as Porn" thinking & there is a place for this sort of display; & these shows should inspire us to use the ingredients to the utmost not snob ourselves out of the cheep cuts

I find this Odd; We watch House renovation shows & they do cool things with some not top shelf materials. This is Not the cooking shows; top shelf all the way & the same goes for most of us.

Say that you like Black Pudding & people look ill.

Say that you eat Rabbit & they sneer 

Then we gripe that meat is so expensive!

I take the view that an animal has died for this food, so embrace it & eat it all.

This brings me to this Rabbit Killed on Air. 

For the record; the rabbit was then cooked & eaten. The Announcer said it was to highlight hypocrisy about meat production in Denmark. I don't think so. It was a blatant grab for attention. The only reason that I wince is that it reportedly took several blows to kill the rabbit; This is the only "wrong" in my opinion. To break a rabbits neck should be a quick clean exercise. Again, from my experience - this is the what I have seen when animals are slaughtered; a shot to the head & it is over quickly for the animal. Butchered & then eaten.

AND regarding the rabbit in Denmark, I just don't care. And I am not Sorry to PETA either. All the Twitter feed outrage is crass. It is an animal that was destined to be eaten; get over it. 

I wonder how many people out there were upset that it wasn't a premium cut that the family ate?

So, how do we go forward? In Australia, the humble bunny is an absolute curse upon this land. I will now defend the consumption of rabbit meat as an important environmental initiative. And the consumption of all the other unfashionable cuts & I call upon anyone out there to do the same.

Leigh