One bite of andouillette and you don’t need translation.
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What do you think about turkey butts, or tripe, intestines stuff like that? Gamey or somethin else?
I can really get down with some lima beans and smoked turkey butts, crispy tripas tacos etc. There’s gotta be a better term than fecal overtones, let’s save that for wine fanciers…
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Isn’t that what Andrew Zimmern calls ‘barnyard-y’?
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Here’s a webpage that shows all the dishes from the Hannibal series:
The show is no gory gimmick tho, it’s quite good
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haha, haven’t heard that! That works. But its a flavor that people seek out yes?
I guess? I admittedly do not have as adventurous a palette as Mr. Zimmern and have never had tripe, turkey butts, or other alimentary comestibles.
I suppose I’d try them, but I certainly wouldn’t order one as my main course.
And even that may be an understatement.
I’ve mentioned this before but my awful experience was with andouilette de Cambrai. Actually bought in Cambrai (a small town in the Nord department). It literally smelt like shit and the one bite I took tasted like I imagine shit tastes. Never again.
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Same, Harters. I wanted to like it…I tried it from gold medal producers in Troyes (the supposed heart of andouillette productionl. I agree with your assessment of the flavor. When I knew that andouillette would be on the menu at work, I brought a sandwich and stayed at the other end of campus.
Gamey to me is a musky quality (for lack of a bettwr word)…but I like it. I grew up in the Midwest, so venison, rabbit, and quail were regular menu items, with the odd squirrel. Dad brought back a deer every year…sometimes a mule deer, sometimes a whitetail. This was our freezer fodder for the winter. We also preferred it when the deer had foraged in cornfields versus pine forests…far better flavor!
I still love wild game and have happily eaten all of the above, plus elk, emu, ostrich, boar, and one experience with roasted bear.
I wish it would become more popular here. The immigrant American grey squirrel is not only regarded as a pest but it has all but wiped out our native red squirrel, which is now an endangered species (estimated to be only 15k left in England) . But it’s another of those “cute” things, I think. Folk, me included, put food out for the birds but are OK when the local squirrels come and eat it.
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Venison is not unpleasant, it’s just there. geese are swampy if harvested wild.
John, I’m referring to American antelope. A former neighbor of mine hunts them every year. Beautiful animal. Meat? Whatever.
The deer have been really ripping up the corn by me. Coons are big corn eaters as well.
Ever cook coons? Amazing amount of fat n those things.
I agree with the “musky” smell thing for describing gameyness. There also seems to be a compact nature to the muscles you don’t get from conventionally farmed animals.
I had no idea there was an American antelope.
That ticks off my “learn something every day” box for today.
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Smells lke sht is different from gamey, IMHO. If your gonna make chitlins, better be clean chits, or you’re serving shitlins. Gamey and feces are not the same scent, tho.
Turkey butts and tripe are not gamey. Turkey butts kick ass. I’ve had tripen so many ways. Still tripe. I’ll do menudo to help el crudo, but I sure don’t eat much tripe.
Age dried steak funk is heavenly.
Grouse are good Phoenikia, but I avoid shooting them because numbers are dwindling. Woodcock (timberdoodles) are as well.
You need about 10 of either for a meal for 4. rather keep them around. Deer, however, have exploded by me. Take as many as you like…please.
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I’m quite aware. I just first had it in France, long before I ever saw it in the US.
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When I moved here 23 years ago, we had red squirrels in abundance. Now, not as much. They’re both good to eat, though, reds and greys.
I add cayenne to my bird seed to make those little shts pay for it.
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There’s a famous American song, Home on The Range, and the lyrics go,
Home, home on the Range,
Where the deer and the antelope play…
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I had forgotten ostrich. i used to source it occasionally. A lovely steak.
I remember one night our son bounced in from school, dashed through the kitchen en route out the other door, stopping long enough to snatch a slice of rare grilled ostrich off the cutting board, Tossing it down, he called out, “Great steak, Mom!” “It’s ostrich.” “Ghaaaaaaa…”
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I have never found gamey to be a useful descriptor. It seems more like a catchall for tasting different from what one usually eats, probably, beef, chicken, and pork. Some of it like many fowl and rabbit taste very similar to chicken to me but are drier. Venison just doesn’t light me up. Lamb and goat are delicious, but I don’t know that calling them gamey really describes them. Also, not all beef, chicken, or pork tastes the same. A hanger steak has a much stronger flavor than a round steak. Now it is morning, and I am already fantasizing about lamb chops with broiled tomatoes…
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On one of the trips to South Africa I mentioned, we visited an ostrich farm. They used to be big business in the 19th & early 20th century for feathers (as hat decorations). Visit included lunch. Ostrich of course. I thought it delicious. Mrs H decided to be vegetarian that day.
