This is why the leg/shoulder/rump cuts of beef are tough.
The more the muscle is used, the 'harder' it gets.
[Brom says eating snakes is disgusting]
Posted on 04/28/2012 4:54:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, the Democrats started it, assiduously promoting accounts of a 1983 Romney vacation to Canada in which the family pooch Seamus rode on the roof of the car. Axelrod and the boys thought they could have some sport with this, and their poodles in the media eagerly played along. The New York Times columnist Gail Collins alone has referred to it dozens of times.
And then Jim Treacher, the sharp-eyed wag of the Daily Caller, uncovered this passage from Chapter Two of Obama’s bestselling but apparently largely unread memoir Dreams from My Father, in which the author recalls childhood meals with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro:
I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.
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This is why the leg/shoulder/rump cuts of beef are tough.
The more the muscle is used, the 'harder' it gets.
[Brom says eating snakes is disgusting]
In bacon grease!
I don't think Obama's stepfather was allowed to consume swine-derived food products.
A shame. The Fried Grasshoppers recipe Tax-Chick shared with me is deeeee-licious, and it specifically calls for bacon grease.
Makes perfect sense in theory, but there must be exceptions - perhaps based on the method of cooking. I've had fried rattlesnake on quite a few occasions and never considered it to be tough.
Dogs and snakes are ‘unclean’ so what’s a little pig fat?
LOL
I think his feelings were hurt - he’s pouting.
bm
I’ve had rattler just broiled by being laid on rocks
next to the fire, it tasted like chicken, white meat.
Of course we WERE hungry.
That was a Salvadoran delicacy. Their tamales aren’t as good as the Mexican version, but their grasshoppers ... ole’, the hit of the parish festival. And dragons will eat the leftovers.
you nailed it...I’ve got Lewis, Tolkien, Chesterton, Twain.
They’ve actually been read too!!
I swear these Obama autobios were all bought for decoration.
I prefer Theodore Roosevelt to Mark Twain. I also have a nice set of Winston Churchill’s war memoirs. Bargain paperbacks from Dover Publications.
Just awesome essay.
West Virginia doesn't allow first-cousin marriages, unlike, apparently, the UK.
and I’m guessing you read them?
I’m becoming more and more convinced my lib friends are just buying their stuff for pure decoration purposes.
Of course. Roosevelt and Churchill were both talented writers with fascinating, mostly-true stories to tell. (I doubt either man refrained from a little embellishment, given their egos ;-).
I used to go to Homeowners' Association committee meetings at the home of a Democrat couple. They had Bill's and Hillary Clinton's memoirs prominently on their coffee table. And they did not, otherwise, have the overflowing shelves of books that would indicate they might actually read that much! I don't think either of the Clintons even read "their" autobiographies!
LOL! That’s probably true!!
It would be funny if somebody tried to quiz Obama on his own autobio
Maybe Zero reads his at night before bed - after all, no subject other than himself interests him.
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