Hot dogs or Brats

[glatt]

best bratwursts are the white ones made of finely ground veal.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by glatt

best bratwursts are the white ones made of finely ground veal.

I've had those. I thought they were too bland.

[glatt]

I've had bland white ones too. They often have some sort of green herb in them.

The kind I'm thinking of have a mild spiciness, and are awesome.

Mainly it's the fine grinding I like. I don't like the coarse ground wursts that much. They tend to have pockets of fat so you get squirted when you bite into them. If you think of a typical hot dog, the frankfurter, it's all one consistency inside. You don't get gristle chunks in your teeth because the gristle is ground up for you. These are ground up like that.

[DanaC]

Veal is one meat I will not eat. It tastes great, but the price in terms of animal exploitation is too great for me to enjoy it.

[glatt]

But these are the scraps, that would otherwise be thrown away. If you are going to exploit a baby cow, you might as well us it all rather than waste some.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Veal is one meat I will not eat. It tastes great, but the price in terms of animal exploitation is too great for me to enjoy it.

Veal production has come a long way. Crates are no longer used in the UK or in Europe. I figure 9/10 you'd be more ethically justified in eating veal than in having a KFC. And certainly more so than eating non free range pork. Pigs are as intelligent as dogs, and are often factory farmed.

I'd eat veal if I knew where it came from. The only factory farmed meat I buy is for Diz (Sainsbury's Basics chicken wings and legs). And even that troubles my conscience.

[DanaC]

*blinks* ok.

[zippyt]

For me, it was the whole reduction sauce thing.

We use Turbo dog from Abita , dark beer , strong . sorta salty taste . good beer to drink , Better to cook with !!!

[zippyt]

Jinx and Flint , let me know How it comes out !!
PICS !!!

[Flint]

Originally Posted by zippyt

Jinx and Flint , let me know How it comes out !!
PICS !!!

I told my wife about the beer/brats w/reduction sauce and she agreed we have to do that. And I told her we have to take pics.

[Flint]

Is that one of those really hoppy beers?

[zippyt]

If you slug back 3-4 of them YOU will be Hoppy !!!!!

[DanaC]

KFC in the UK have a policy of using free range chickens

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by DanaC

KFC in the UK have a policy of using free range chickens

I stand corrected. You probably shouldn't have told me that though.
Zinger Tower Burger. Nom nom nom....

[glatt]

Originally Posted by DanaC

KFC in the UK have a policy of using free range chickens

In the US, "free range" only means that the birds have access to the outside, it doesn't say how large that outside area is or what it's like out there. You can have a huge chicken house with a little hole in the wall leading to a 2 meter square gravel pen, and call your chickens "free range." I wonder what UK regulations are like.