Oh, good. Looking up pictures, it definitely wasn’t skate, and didn’t really look like a shark, but I guess it could have been a young huss or something?
But I’m glad it was probably a common fish and not endangered, so thanks for bringing that up.
So I guess coming back to the thread topic, I hereby formally revoke the only time I had second thoughts about eating something. 
Moderator Action
Since this is about food and the enjoyment of eating it (or lack thereof), let’s move this to Cafe Society (from MPSIMS).
Mine is simply The Egg
I love them fried and scrambled. But sometimes when I think of what they really are…UGH
Mushrooms. It’s the same stuff that grows in my bathroom grout and damp basement corners, let grown to epic proportions.
Salt-rising bread, in which the leavening agent is not yeast or baking powder, but Clostridium perfringens, the bacteria that causes gas gangrene.
I first had black pudding at the age of 21, when I was staying in the home of a Scottish pen-pal. I’d been there almost a week before her mother told me what I’d been scarfing down for lunch every day was congealed blood. I was a little taken aback, but I’ve never stopped eating it.
Her father was a gamekeeper on an estate, so we also had hare quite often. They’d leave the carcass hanging outside until it was good and gamey. I never acquired a taste for it, even after I’d given it a few shots of L&P sauce.
Haggis, on the other hand, is lovely stuff, regardless of how it’s prepared. Tastes just like spicy liverwurst, that’s all.
Tofu I cannot stand. When I was in college, I could always tell when it was on the menu in the cafeteria, because it stank like burning rubber.
If it were a shark or a ray you’d probably remember that, so if not a chimera it could also be a paddlefish. If that were the case, probably an imported American one, as the Chinese one is critically endangered.
Time for lunch, this is making me hungry. I don’t get squeamish about food too easy, but I do have tastes.
I don’t really care about the age of animals, as in the wild a significant number them are unlikely to make breeding age, especially those octopuses. An adult animal is more likely to survive. I try to eat somewhat ethically, which differs greatly from the PETA definition.
Refried beans are made with lard. I am certainly not a vegetarian, but once I found that out I no longer enjoy that creamy texture. If I do make tacos the vegetarian beans are just fine.
To step away from the meats for a moment, how about cashews? I mean, I still love them, but it’s a ton of work to separate the edible “nuts” from the poison-ivy leaves surrounding them. And when you consider that even with that, they’re only twice the price of peanuts… just what kind of slave labor must the cashew growers be using?
For what it’s worth, I had Phoenix and Dragon soup in a restaurant in Guangzhou in 1986. It featured chicken feet (Phoenix) and snake (Dragon). So that at least was a real thing.
Just remembered, bird’s nest soup. Swallow spit, yum! 
And to a lesser extent, shark’s fin soup. What do they do with the rest of the shark? (p.s. Yes, I know it’s often left to die, but all those other sea yummies need to eat too!)
I’ve had both and while okay, it’s nothing I’d personally pay the high price for. The nice thing is that usually someone on the table does think twice about it and I get to have their portion too! Win!
Oh, BTW, about baby animals, if it wasn’t clear my, comments are all tongue in cheek. As I stated, it’s the law of the jungle that the youngest and weakest are often the first to go.
Also, while I don’t condone animal cruelty or support the harvesting of endangered species, the way I look at it, if the animal is already on my plate, it would be a greater waste of the animalis life if I didn’t consume it and just let it go to waste in protest. Sometimes when an endangered animal is illegally poached and discovered, the flesh is given to the native peoples for consumption and I applaud that. NOT the illegal poaching, but the passing on of the flesh so something positive can come from the negative act.
Another memory. My ex-girlfriend refused to eat split pea soup because her Dad told her that they were split by hand as punishment in China! 
As for eggs, I think it was George Carlin that had a bit about his friend refusing to tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth, but would happily eat eggs that came out of a chicken’s butt! It’s very rare with market eggs, but farm fresh eggs sometimes have a bit of blood or poop on the shell, reminding you where they came from!
It’s not great conditions in many cases. But that doesn’t mean that they produced your cashews that way, there are mechanical solutions as well. It’s not the same substance as poison ivy/oak/sumac (urishiol) but a cousin, so I don’t think it’s as bad.
If illegally harvested, they toss the rest of the shark. While cruel to the individual animal, I think the bigger concern is the sustainability of it.
Anyone is absolutely allowed to have a food aversion, even if it doesn’t make “sense” logically. Bad experiences, or just because it’s cute are fine.
I support removing roadkill harvest restrictions for this reason. Some people claim that it might lead to vehicle poaching. These people haven’t seen the aftermath of a deer collision.
I didn’t know that. I do know that there are leavening agents other than yeast, but C. perfringens?!? EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!
Will not purchase seafood from SE Asia because of the slave labor
About 10 years ago, Hy-Vee, an upper Midwestern grocery chain, offered salmon for sale with a sign stating that it was caught in Alaska and processed in China. This didn’t last long because people refused to buy it.
This was around the time that the one of the stores in my town tested a special “pay with your thumbprint” machine. I am not the only person who refused to try it (on one occasion, I said, “I’m not touching this with a 10-foot pole!”) and in time, they discontinued it because the company that made the machines went bankrupt.
They often are.
Kumis is fermented mare’s milk, very popular in Central Asia and often available in Russian stores. I was standing in the checkout line at my local supermarket one day when the person in front of me dropped his bottle of the stuff, which broke on the counter.
Holy sweet JHC, the only stench I’ve ever encountered that was nearly as bad was when my dog farted one morning while the cat was trying to play with her! WHOOOOO! :mad:
While I agree that sheep are delicious and an animal that does not take well to factory farm conditions- they are also not as stupid as people think. I’ve owned sheep for on and off for over 20 years as well as competed in sheepdog trials- while they can make interesting choices, they not stupid. Usually, people who call them stupid have tried to get them to do something the sheep does not want to do and was frustrated by the results.
Summary Cite: http://www.sheep101.info/stupidsheep.html
Here I am!
I came in to say foie gras. So good, it’s evil. Or, so inhumanely produced, it’s evil. Texturally speaking, it’s like a meat pillow, meat butter, silken, delicious…so also, very evil.
So, after much careful thought and research, I’m going with sweetbreads.