Ilithids among us! Brain eaters ravage Indiana!

[Zaruthustran]

Cow brain sandwiches still on the menu


EVANSVILLE, Indiana (AP) -- Fear of mad cow disease hasn't kept Cecelia Coan from eating her beloved deep-fried cow-brain sandwiches.

She's more concerned about cholesterol than suffering the brain-wasting disease found in a cow in Washington state last month.

"I think I'll have hardening of the arteries before I have mad cow disease," said Coan, picking up a brain sandwich to go during her lunch hour this week. "This is better than snail, better than sushi, better than a lot of different delicacies."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/16/brain.sandwich.ap/index.html

-z, alarmed

 

[ciaran00]

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

They eat what? Cow what sandwiches?
*URP*
Pardon me!
*Bleahk*
I feel better now.
You get mad cow from eating infected brain and spinal tissue people! Stop eating brains! It's never ended happily for any culture.

By the way Zaruthustran, your sig never ceases to lower my stress level.
The question is am I loosing my stress, or losing my stress?

 

[Dogbrain]

You get mad cow from eating infected brain and spinal tissue people! Stop eating brains! It's never ended happily for any culture.

Actually, European culture has been eating brains for millenia, and it is still a delicacy in many parts of the USA. This has not been a problem for millenia. It has only been when some penny-pinching morons decided it was a good idea to force cattle to be cannibals that the risk went up.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Yeah. Use the brains to tan the cowhide into leather, like normal people!


Trivia: What is the only land mammal whose brain does not contain enough tannen to tan the entire hide of the creature? Answer:

Spoiler

The Elephant

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Actually, European culture has been eating brains for millenia

Really? I have to look out for that on the menu when I next go to a restaurant.

 

[MerakSpielman]

There are recipies in the Joy of Cooking for brains. Heck, there's a recipe for porcupine, including how to skin a freshly killed one.

The most recent edition of JoC took out all those goodies, figuring modern readers weren't likely to go for them.

 

[Zaruthustran]

There are recipies in the Joy of Cooking for brains. Heck, there's a recipe for porcupine, including how to skin a freshly killed one.

The most recent edition of JoC took out all those goodies, figuring modern readers weren't likely to go for them.

I think that's a safe assumption. I doubt most people have ever even seen a porcupine, much less considered eating one.

And Bran, thanks for the note. I don't know why loose/lose annoys me even more than rouge/rogue, but it does.

-z

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I think that's a safe assumption. I doubt most people have ever even seen a porcupine, much less considered eating one.

All I know is that I won't get into a butt-kicking contest with one of those buggers.

 

[MerakSpielman]

A picture of a brain sandwich from the MSNBC story: