Anybody Eat "High Meat"?

[Strykervet]

Just curious. I saw this on a "documentary" about weird animal obsessions. For those that don't know, "high meat" is meat that has been fermented, or left to rot in a jar for a period of time; it sort of becomes a goo after a while it seems. I guess it's part of an extreme paleo-diet. The guy eating it looked healthy enough.

There was another guy with this hot Swedish wife in leather pants and he acted like a dog --ate dog food, slept with the dog, wanted her to pet him, etc. This other lady likes to dress up like a horse and hooked to a pony cart and carry strangers around the park. Strange shit. I won't ask if any of you participate in this behaviour.

 

[ArmyJerry]

post the video

 

[Strykervet]

I wish I could.

I think I saw it on Netflix but it could have been on Amazon Prime. It was just the other day, it's still gotta be there. I looked up high meat and sure enough, it's a thing that people do.

I have to wonder about the guy acting like a dog, whether or not that was thrown in there to spice it up because the lady dressing the bugs up like Hollywood actors was kinda lame (she was like the female version of Steve Carell in "Dinner for Schmucks").

 

[DetroitRearView]

The only meat I eat is antelope, deer and Elk. Rare occasion with friends I will eat out and just pick the best food possible.

 

[Rthur]

Hakarl is a version of this.
Make with Greenland shark.

R

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Quite happy with dry aged Chicago beef....

Or locally raised angus.

I don't need any fermented crap.

Pittsburgh-rare baby... Pittsburgh rare.

Sirhr

 

[Badfinger]

Oh, never mind I thought you were talking about Spam......

 

[timesublime]

Hakarl is a version of this.
Make with Greenland shark.

R

I tried it once, once.

 

[Veer_G]

I'm not supposed to have anything fermented. Every once in a while some fermented tofu and veggies creep in from Asian foods.

I have no wish for pony carts, though, OP. Helluva an admission there. Ballsy.

 

[Strykervet]

It was on Netflix. So I'm looking up the show to try and find you a video of it, guess you'll have to watch it, and someone noticed the boyfriend of the girl that dresses up the bugs is a sketch comedy actor, Sam Brown from "White Kids U Know"; sure enough, looked it up and that's him. I sort of felt the dog guy was a put on, and act.

You can't believe a goddamn thing anymore. There's more than enough bizarro behaviour out there to not have to make shit up, I've seen it. But it's all fucked up now, to call a book a "biography" or "autobiography" you've got to damn near have filmed your whole fucking life, depose everyone you know and have them fill out affidavits in triplicate because Oprah Winfrey felt dry fucked for believing everything she read and basically owns the publishing world, but you can film totally made up shit and call it a documentary day in and day out, no different than were it a "reality" show.

Still, the high meat thing, that's real, very real. And to me pretty scary. I do know for a fact that in the past before refrigeration it was common to eat aged meat and I've heard of rich people that would only eat meat after it turned, it was fashionable and they had a taste for it. But to me, that was just waste not, want not prior to refrigeration.

People that eat high meat also claim it gives them an energy boost, like a drug. It's not too far fetched I guess, the Romans used to eat this shit, I forget the name, that was made from fermented sardines. Stirred up with olive oil and left in the sun until it turned into this disgusting looking mash. They were addicted to it, ate it on everything.

 

[Veer_G]

It's called "garum." (Sp.?) A bit like Worcestershire sauce, or nam pla/nuoc maam.

 

[Strykervet]

Oh no, I'm not pulling the pony cart!

I saw the guy acting like a dog and all I could think about was "I wanna be your dog" by Iggy Pop. The wife in the tight leather pants looked real familiar too, like she's been an actress in some obscure role too.

I've had fermented Chinese vegetables (they went in a soup) and I've had several different kinds of kimchi, which I like. Smoked meat is good, sausage is aged and I recall aged meats at the store as a kid, but never had maggoty meat or meat that "tastes like cheese".

 

[Strykervet]

It's called "garum." (Sp.?) A bit like Worcestershire sauce, or nam pla/nuoc maam.

Garum, that's it. They made it sound pretty nasty in Roman History class. "An acquired taste" they put it. They usually would make some up for the students to try but didn't the quarter I took the class. I did see a video of others trying it, they were valiant but most wound up getting sick.

 

[SubOptimal]

Some of the finest steak houses dry age their beef. Of course they trim off the rotten parts before cooking and don't allow maggots to get at the meat.

 

[Strykervet]

I tried it once, once.

Oh, I've heard of the fermented fish stuff before... The Swedish stuff is supposed to be used like a spice I think, so it was funny to watch Americans eat it whole. They have something like that in Japan too, meant to be eaten whole, it's one of the most expensive foods I think? Some kind of fermented fish, rare, big delicacy, totally disgusting to most.

I like sushi and sashimi, but if it even smells like fish it puts me off. I don't even like fish I'm going to cook to smell like fish. At all.

 

[Veer_G]

Oh, I've heard of the fermented fish stuff before... The Swedish stuff is supposed to be used like a spice I think, so it was funny to watch Americans eat it whole. They have something like that in Japan too, meant to be eaten whole, it's one of the most expensive foods I think? Some kind of fermented fish, rare, big delicacy, totally disgusting to most.

I like sushi and sashimi, but if it even smells like fish it puts me off. I don't even like fish I'm going to cook to smell like fish. At all.

Damn, brother. You sound like a man who don't go downtown.

 

[whatsupdoc]

Fermented = Bourbon & Scotch

 

[Sean the Nailer]

I have a friend here, who has a pheasant hatchery/flock/farm/ranch(?) Idunnowhatyoucallit. A pheasantry? ANYWAYS... I asked here some years ago, if anyone had any good pheasant dishes they'd recommend.

To make a short story REALLY long, you'd be surprised at the amount of different folks whom actually said to take a pheasant, (not cleaned or plucked iirc) and hang it from a nail, high up in the rafters (or something like that) for "some weeks" until it gets "good an' ripe". That's when they's best.

Again, "or something along those lines". Is this similar to what you're referring? NO, I've not tried it. It's something that I'm going to have to watch someone else do, before I even contemplate such a thing. And even then....

 

[Maggot]

There was another guy with this hot Swedish wife in leather pants and he acted like a dog --ate dog food, slept with the dog, wanted her to pet him, etc. This other lady likes to dress up like a horse and hooked to a pony cart and carry strangers around the park. Strange shit. I won't ask if any of you participate in this behaviour.

Dog and pony show?

 

[Strykervet]

Damn, brother. You sound like a man who don't go downtown.

Maybe that's why she left.

 

[Veer_G]

Maybe that's why she left.

Don't start that morose shit tonight, or I'll send Deppity S'quatch up there after you.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Nuoc Mam is good... when cooking Thai. Or making Pho. One of my favorites.

But for the love of all things holy.... American Beef is not zipperhead fish juice.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Strykervet]

Don't start that morose shit tonight, or I'll send Deppity S'quatch up there after you.

Oh no, you just had a point!

 

[Veer_G]

Nuoc Mam is good... when cooking Thai. Or making Pho. One of my favorites.

But for the love of all things holy.... American Beef is not zipperhead fish juice.

Cheers,

Sirhr

And I wonder why you can't get hot sauce for your breakfast burrito at McDonald's in The Grand Duchy of Nitrocellulose.

 

[QuickNDirty]

 

[sirhrmechanic]

And I wonder why you can't get hot sauce for your breakfast burrito at McDonald's in The Grand Duchy of Nitrocellulose.

Bacon and eggs... or cereal bar. No Burritos at breakfast. Concept alone is stomach-turning.

Burritos are dinner food. Ummmmmm dinner burritos.

Not breakfast food. Ever. Not in 'Merika! Maybe in Middlebury. But not in 'Merika!

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[timesublime]

^^Come to Denver sometime, breakfast burritos are a staple here. Hell, we even have an official breakfast burrito day. But, we do have famous green chile 'gravy' here.

 

[Veer_G]

^^Come to Denver sometime, breakfast burritos are a staple here. Hell, we even have an official breakfast burrito day. But, we do have famous green chile 'gravy' here.

Feed me migas off a discada until I die ...

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Been to Denver. Great place. Colorado Springs... even better. I still order the Bacon, Eggs over medium... pancakes...

Burritos are for dinner. But then again, I'm an un-cultured Easterner. Probably all pasty and unable to adjust to the outdoors. Can't eat the frontier food you guys are versed in.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Veer_G]

 

[timesublime]

That looks awesome.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

^^^ +1...

But for dinner.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[Rthur]

Some of the finest steak houses dry age their beef. Of course they trim off the rotten parts before cooking and don't allow maggots to get at the meat.

Usually they have salt walls in the aging room.

R

 

[SubOptimal]

Usually they have salt walls in the aging room.

R

Cuts down on the stank. The 10-12 day is not too bad, Peter Luger runs 21 days.

 

[TheGerman]

Ok, so if I dress up as a horse, do I get to bang that brunette tatto'd chick after the contest?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Veer_G]

Ok, so if I dress up as a horse, do I get to bang that brunette tatto'd chick after the contest?

Asking for a friend.

Nah, but she'll put a Dos Equis in your trough, Pferdie.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Ok, so if I dress up as a horse, do I get to bang that brunette tatto'd chick after the contest?

Asking for a friend.

You got it the wrong way around.

You should be in the chariot while a select number of scantily clad females dressed as horses are pulling it and then you pull over and play Stallion and the herd of mares.

(There is lots of great pictures of said activity on line)

 

[TheGerman]

Nah, but she'll put a Dos Equis in your trough, Pferdie.

The irony is that was actually someones nickname I knew in Germany.

 

[Strykervet]

The blonde lady in that video with the enormously long ponytail (which is fake btw) was the lady featured in the documentary. She no shit pulls people around a park in a Shetland pony cart.

 

[Strykervet]

They have a huge sex shop in Tacoma... I just got the idea maybe I should go try some shit on, and how funny would it be to put that as a profile picture on a dating site? Even better, wonder who'd respond?

Hell, maybe I'm missing out, that stallion gig doesn't sound too bad the way you guys put it!

 

[MtnCreek]

I've had fermented sausage, corn, cabbage, beans, fruit and probably some others that I can't remember.

 

[MosesTheTank]

I do love aged beef. I shoot coyotes on a local farm and in return I take a side of beef each year. Some of it is aged and a few of us split it up.

http://www.minq.com/food/4322/10-rotten-foods-you-are-used-to-eating/#page=1

 

[Strykervet]

Aged meat is one thing. Aging it to the point of being rancid is historically popular even. Today's uber freshness standard for mea;'t (which is often artificially made to appear fresher than it really is with gasses and other chemicals) is a fairly new thing. I mean, what do you think people did with meat before refrigeration? They didn't salt it ALL. We've all probably had aged beef at some time in our lives and perhaps not even have known about it. As a kid, a local grocery store regularly sold aged meats, they had 'em hanging from a rack near the butcher. None of it was nasty. A little dry, but not nasty.

But the conditions for aging meat were generally kept clean. One guy mentions on here salt being used for an aging room. Perhaps the salt helps with the smell, but it also makes it impossible for bacteria to get a foothold in that room too. I know when the ancients got a large kill like a Wooly Mammoth, it was common for the Clovis, the predecessors of the Native Americans, to take the majority of the meat and to hide it at the bottom of a lake. They'd sink it in colder, deeper water and attach a means of recovery and store it that way. The combination of the cold water and the lack of air kept the meat remarkably good for a long time. Scientists today have recovered some and even eaten it --60,000 years later! Their only complaint was that it was a bit rancid. A bit.

This "high meat" (wonder why it got that name) is TOTALLY different from this and from what you guys are talking about. High meat is rotten to the point of putrifaction, liquification of the meat. It looks like goo and what I saw was yellow, not red.

I really can't see how someone this day and age would even develop a taste for that, even seeing my best friend eat that shit would disgust me and there's no way in hell anyone is talking me into eating that nasty shit.

 

[Veer_G]

The movie theater was downtown, too!

 

[Rthur]

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R

 

[Strykervet]

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R

That's funny. My mom lives in NE and they get jokes about weed growing wild there all the time from WW2 (it's hemp actually, but govt. there treats it like drugs anyway; it grows wild on the side of the road and in corn fields all over). I have a picture of me at 14 in a giant field of 12 foot plants, must have been a million of 'em. My grandmother saw it and was convinced my mom was wrapped up in a cartel. She thought my dad was a Russian spy too, but that's another story!

High meat... Great picture too.

 

[Strykervet]

The movie theater was downtown, too!

Hard to believe Steve McQueen was in it --I always thought he and Clint Eastwood were the epitomy of American Badass. Pure fucking cool. I bet the only reason that movie is as popular as it is is because he's in it. They were so fucking cool it was impossible to cast 'em the same movie.

Don't go downtown... I have a funny story about that, a guy looking for drugs while we were in the army was in downtown Seattle and kept asking for "downtown". He elaborated, "downtown, downtown!" Then he finally said, it --I need some fucking heroin man! Where do they sell it? We still laugh about that.