Foreign food that scares me...

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Kidneys, liver, lungs... there's something I don't find quite right about eating filter organs that remove toxins or collect all the bad stuff from a living thing.

Come on, think about it. For it to be an effective *filter*, it would have to be able to extract the bad stuff and get rid of it. It's not like the dust cup on your dustbuster that just accumulates and accumulates. It moves it out of the system. There's an argument for the position that those organs could be the cleanest places--the least tolerance for the bad stuff.

That aside, cooking thoroughly covers a multitude of sins. For example, when camping, I don't bother to filter or sterilize the water for coffee. I just get a ten tin 3/4 full of water and boil it (aha!) and toss in the coffee. Why filter what I'm going to boil?

When neither of these arguments overcome your own personal ick factor, well, we're done. That's fine. More for me. :slurp:

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by BigV

Come on, think about it. For it to be an effective *filter*, it would have to be able to extract the bad stuff and get rid of it. It's not like the dust cup on your dustbuster that just accumulates and accumulates. It moves it out of the system. There's an argument for the position that those organs could be the cleanest places--the least tolerance for the bad stuff.

Okay, liver and kidneys I'll give you (I have to try these sometime soon, now that I'm in this debate. Any dish suggestions?) but lungs are still out. They are essentially the dust cup and while that pig ain't probably ain't smoking, I'm still hesitant for all the nasty its breathing it at the pesticide-ridden farm.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by BigV

That aside, cooking thoroughly covers a multitude of sins. For example, when camping, I don't bother to filter or sterilize the water for coffee. I just get a ten tin 3/4 full of water and boil it (aha!) and toss in the coffee. Why filter what I'm going to boil?

Do you boil your pre-coffee water for 10 minutes?