Spinoff from the Eric Pepke thread - pedophiles

[PensivePenny]

Are you still mad at me tuco?

[Sendraks]

People who need to keep saying "they are above it all" rarely are. After all, if they were genuinely "above it all" that would be obvious by the conduct and people would judge them accordingly.

It's a bit like someone repeatedly saying "I am intelligent" as if that were somehow persuasive proof of their intelligence.

[PensivePenny]

People who are above it all are usually silent.

Tuco...?

Join the fray. The water is fine!

[tuco]

Is 3% rare enough for you?

[PensivePenny]

Close enough

[tuco]

Now go play with the other kids ;)

[laklak]

Rare is about 125F on the meat thermometer. Then let it rest, covered, for 10 minutes.

[Sendraks]

I cooked a haunch of Venison for Christmas dinner. Cooking time was however few minutes it took me to sear the meat in a pan and then the 10minutes it spent in the oven.

It was pretty much perfect. Melt in the mouth and lovely red colour in the middle.

[PensivePenny]

Venison? In England? Are you a lord? Poacher maybe?

j/k...

Seriously, how did you come by it?

[Sendraks]

Short version - I went to a shop.

Middling version - Venison is quite widely available in England. The more upmarket supermarkets tend to stock it, so getting hard of it is not difficult. Farm shops and farmers markets are also a commonplace thing in England and venison is readily available at those places.

Long version - on our drive back from Scotland, we passed a deer farm with a farm shop. My wife, who lived up in that part of Scotland, confessed having been past the farm many times over the years but, had never been to the shop. So we stopped there to get a bite to eat and I perused their selection of meats in the shop (which wasn't limited to venison), before selecting a nice haunch to take home for Christmas dinner.

[tuco]

Thermometer is for amateurs.

[PensivePenny]

Very cool. I've only had venison a couple times. I would think we'd have deer farms here too, but I'm not aware of any. I've seen a package or two at the store, usually kept in the exotic meat section next to the rugrat steaks we Americans are so fond of (we're evil and eat our young you know).

Is venison popular there? Here, it's mostly just a hunter thing (and people who know hunters). Or, maybe I just hang around the wrong people. How does the price compare to your beef?

[laklak]

Man I love venison. Hard to find here, unless you know a hunter. Can get it online but it's stupid expensive.

There is a good Mexican carneceria down the road where I can get goat, though.

[Sendraks]

Popular? I don't know. I doubt most people eat it with any regularity but, it's popular enough to have made it into supermarkets and be sold in the "burger" format in some stores.

I suspect that venison is probably regarded as "posh" in the same way pheasant and other game meats are considered "posh."

Arbitrary poshness scale for meats.

Pork
Chicken
Beef
Lamb
Duck
Pheasant
Partridge
Grouse
Venison

[Scot Dutchy]

Venison is very easy to get here. We do have a lot of deer. Even our local supermarket sells it all the time.

[Scot Dutchy]

Where would quail fit in?

[tuco]

lol

tulips, weed and venison :)

[PensivePenny]

lol

tulips, weed and venison

... all served in the wooden clog worn only once by a post-pubescent girl.

[Scot Dutchy]

England produces more tulips than we do. Weed is definitely not cool. Venison is a common meat and who wants to eat out of anyone's 'klompen'.

[PensivePenny]

England produces more tulips than we do. Weed is definitely not cool. Venison is a common meat and who wants to eat out of anyone's 'klompen'.

Fucking pedant... spoiling our fun

j/k