Posted on 01/20/2008 6:38:29 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Yonhap News
"Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator's note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health."
Restaurant districts in Pyongyang are featuring rabbit dishes, and attracting customers, advertising it as 'another sweet meat,' spurred by the recent official drive to raise rabbits for food.
Chosun Shinbo, the official newspaper of General Association of Koreans in Japan(pro-North front organization,) reported on Jan. 20, "Among Pyongyang's restaurants, there are quite a few service units which provide various rabbit dishes. These days rabbit stew is as popular as sweet meat stew."
According to the paper, when famine hit during mid 1990's in N. Korea, following the Worker's Party directive "Turn grass into meat," the authorities started to encourage people to raise rabbits to produce meat by feeding grass. Factories, enterprises, schools, military units, and even households have been raising rabbits.
As many people are raising rabbits, Pyongyang city authorities drew up the plan to open restaurants specializing in rabbit meat in each of its district or county since last year. They designated a restaurant complex at Botonggang District as a showcase, after which rabbit meat restaurants began to increase in numbers.
Especially Mundok St. Restaurant at Daesung District is quite popular among customers for its delicious rabbit dishes.
Its best dish is a rabbit stew. To make it, they marinate 2.5 inch slice of rabbit meat, fry it with oil and boil it with gingko, chestnut, and (Chinese) date. People love it, calling it "rabbit health stew."
Kim Hyang-won(age:43), the restaurant's manager, explained, "My restaurant was originally famous for stew dishes such as sweet meat stew with rice, but recently customers like rabbit health stew better than sweet meat dishes."
Park Jin-gook(age:58), its customer, said, "They say you could get sick by having sweet meat stew in the middle of winter, if you are not healthy enough, but with rabbit stew, there is no such problem. It tastes so good that I might have it even in summer(translator's note: summer is the peak season of sweet meat stew.)"
posted: 2008.01.20 10:16
good. we have lots of Hares here in California. time to start catching a few of them.
Ping!
With memories of hard times, WW II and the depression on his mind, my dad decided to take matters into hand and produce his own meat supply. In the late 40’s or early 50’s he started raising rabbits behind the garage on his city lot.
We ate rabbit for many years and I must say my memories are that it is good.
"Cok! Bling me my hossenfeffel!"
Well I guess it beats the “Zimbabwe Diet.”
The food shortages come with those big doses of Chairman Mao’s inspiration for both North Korea’s regieme and Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
They’ve lost electric power in Zimbabwe this weekend, does that mean they are “North Korea” now.
Well the United States cut a deal to give NK stuff so they won’t continue their nuclear program.
More peace and harmony in the world?
Ha...ha...
Fried rabbit used to be served on a regular basis in the Ellison Dining Facility at NAS Memphis.
In most of Europe, rabbit is still in the general food chain.
I think it tastes far better than poultry, is leaner than any other meat, and it tastes great with rosemary and garlic lemon sauce.
AM
For some reason my grandmother cooked a lot of rabbit, fried it up like chicken and it was really good.
“Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator’s note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health.”
Rover, is that you in my stew?
They told me that they can't get it any more locally because the inspection requirements had changed or something, and the local rabbit rancher would have had to go through way too many hoops to be FDA certified (like a regular packing plant) so they quit.
Too bad, cause I just don't have time to raise them myself to eat (I've got too much other livestock to take care of).
Yes it was, and I enjoyed it throughly.
The Other sweet meat I have eaten in Korea, it was Ruff but tasty.
Never tried...sweet meat..though.
Nutritional Value of Rabbit Meat
Average Nutritional Content of Rabbit meat is:
Calories – 300g (18% from Fat, 82% form protein & 0% from
Carbohydrate);
Total Fat –
4.1g
__2.3g Lipid Fat,
__0.7g Saturated Fat,
__0.6g Monosaturated Fat,
__0.4g polysaturated Fat
__86mg Cholesterol;
Sodium – 40mg; Carbohydrate – 0g; Dietary Fat – 0g; Sugar – 0;
Protien – 41.9g,
Calcium – 12mg;
Water – 58.9;
Ash – 1.1;
Alcohol & Caffeine – 0.
Nutritional Value of Edible Meats:
Rabbit (% Protein – 20.8, % Fat – 4.5, Calories/Ib – 795)
Veal (% Protein – 19.1, % Fat – 12, Calories/Ib – 840)
Chicken (% Protein – 20.0, % Fat – 17.9, Calories/Ib – 810)
Turkey (% Protein – 20.1, % Fat – 20, Calories/Ib – 1,190)
Lamb (% Protein – 15.7, % Fat – 27.7, Calories/Ib – 1,420)
Beef (% Protein – 16.3, % Fat – 28.0, Calories/Ib – 1,440)
Duck (% Protein – 16.0, % Fat – 28.6, Calories/Ib – 1,015)
Pork (% Protein – 11.9, % Fat – 45, Calories/Ib – 2,050)
Unfortunately, very low caloric content relative to other meats. Not too helpful when your population is starving. Would be great in the US and Europe with the high incidence of obesity.
Well, doggone!
I like a rabbit stew, from time to time, once all the pellets are removed. (can you say #7 shot?)
One caution, don't play with the rabbits before you eat them. Throws off your appetite. Several guys in my flight at AFROTC field training did just that. One of them was my roommate, a city boy from BYU. He managed to help skin it, because we all had to do a little of that (The hard "big game" way, not the the easy rabbit way), but no way was he going to eat any of it, and it put him off to where couldn't even eat the "chili" made from the dried meat in the seat pack survival kit. Fine with me, more for me. (One rabbit between 8 or so guys doesn't go very far anyway, I got a haunch). I think that was the best tasting rabbit I ever had, roasted over an open fire on a spit. Yummy.
I did draw the line at eating the eyeballs. That was a "gross 'em out" trick all of the survival instructors (down from the USAF survival school) pulled. They'd pop in an eyeball, raw, and then ask if anyone wanted the other one. No takers in my group (flight was split into 3 groups for the exercise). However a guy in another group, from El Cajon CA who wanted to be a mortician, asked the FTO if he could remove some demerits if he ate one, and the FTO said sure, 5 demerits. He ate the eyeball and then ran to the other two groups asking if we had any eyeballs left. We did, he ate it for 5 more demerits. But he must have had a bunch of demerits, cause he was still out there walking tours on Saturday after "pass in review".
I have a BB gun and a back yard full of the Varmints
But seriously...
Rabbit production is one backyard industry that promises a bright future. Why' Because almost 99 per cent of the rabbit is useful - the meat for food, the fur for clothing, paws and tails for trinkets, and the manure for soil improvement and for new energy source... bio or methane gas.
The returns from rabbit raising vary from place to place and from time to time. So rabbit producers may either expand or close down their projects on the basis of local and national demands.
However, rabbits are perhaps the most economical and profitable of all kinds of livestock. They can utilize inferior feeds and still provide quality meat and fur. Moreover, with a better quality feeding program, they can increase bunny production thus allowing a higher profit margin for the producer.
A good rabbit raiser strives to raise as many bunnies as possible from one doe within a year or during her productive life. Good management includes the wise selection of initial breeding stock and the determination of how much time and capital is to be invested in the project. It also includes good care of the does, bucks, bunnies and paying alert attention to housing, cages, sanitation, and record keeping.
http://www.appropedia.org/Back_Yard_and_Commercial_Rabbit_Production_15
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