On a prompt from SMBC, I googled “babydoll breed of meat-sheep” and was directed to links about the Southdown Babydoll Sheep. Having put both lamb and mutton into my mouth, it has become clear to me that sheep are not made of food. Why should I consider southdown babydoll sheep to be an exception to this fact?
ETA: Is it because they were cooked? Should I have tried them raw?
More lamb for me!
There are things you can do to eggplant to make it palatable… but any of those recipes would be even better if you started with food as the ingredient.
I was recently reading The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer and I was surprised to learn how much sheep have changed due to selective breeding. They were much smaller animals a few hundred years ago. The average adult sheep in 1500 weighed just twenty-eight pounds.
Some people claim that Brussel Sprouts are food 
- but they will never pass my lips!
Beets smell like a dank, moldy, mildewy basement. Not to mention, their unnaturally red color has to indicate that they’re poisonous. Yet, some people actually eat them, or so I’ve heard.
I’ll accept any non poisonous plant or animal as food. Mushrooms are neither plant, animal, nor food.
I was with you for the vast majority of my life, but last week I decided to give them a shot. Admittedly, they were glazed with some sort of gochujang-maple-bacon concoction, but they were pretty decent.
My other takes are a bit weird. I don’t believe that tomatoes are food, but they are certainly an ingredient in some very good food. Mushrooms are the same way to me. I have no desire to eat one, but I add them to my spaghetti sauce and a brown sauce that I make (mmm, hunter sauce), even if I’m eating alone.
I think onions and garlic are food, but my body doesn’t seem to agree with me.
Sorry, I don’t believe you can make eggplant edible in any way whatsoever.
Years back I coined a word. Anything I find repulsive I call “broc” which is short for broccoli. Smells like a soiled diaper while it’s being cooked. Tastes like an old grandmas unwashed nether regions. Stinky, sour, bitter, gross. Completely disgusting!
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In the last twenty years ago or so, plant breeders have produced cultivars of Brussels sprouts that are much less bitter. Any Brussels sprout-haters here who have not had any in a long time should try them again. ETA Same thing for broccoli.
Almost anything’s edible if you deep-fry it and smother it in mozerella and tomato sauce.
I’ll take your word on it, as I lack the relevant experience.
I’ve heard that too, but it doesn’t explain the fact that both were plenty yummy 30 years ago. I think that the biggest change is just that, now, more people know enough not to cook all veggies to mush.
So you’ve been to Wisconsins state fair I take it
(Bolding mine) I think I’ve found the reason.
I am also Team Anti-Eggplant, but very pro Team Sheep. YMMV, as it obviously does.
Circus Peanuts*
Necco Wafers**
*packaging material
**subway tokens
You really can’t appreciate sheep or goat until it’s slow-cooked in Mexican spices and stuffed in a taco.
Peeps. (more packaging material)
I don’t know how I left those out! A terrible oversight.
Peeps aren’t packaging material; they’re decorations. Re-usable decorations, that last from year to year indefinitely.