Hi, >> >Food that isn't dead yet will sometimes make noise when you eat it. >> >Paul >> >> I find that all the time - especially after devouring a leg of beef. Then >> I saddle 'er up and ride the rest home...
> What does it mean that I, a goy, discovered my first reaction > to that image was, "Dude, that is _so_ not kosher."? Eep! for hundreds of years Europeans believed that Ethiopians (or Abyssinians as they were then called) cut steaks from the sides of their still-living cattle, and ate the steaks warm and raw. I seem to remember Dr. Johnson may have used the story in 'Rasselas, or The Happy Valley', or possibly it came from James Bruce (the 'pale Abyssinian'). Certainly they do eat raw meat, a dish called 'kitfo', which is somewhat like steak tartare. I've always had a pet theory that the idea of them taking a slice from a living beast is some sort of amalgam from kitfo, and the practice of cattle herders in the south of draining blood from the animal to mix with milk as a source of food. -- Cheers, Bob
