Arms of Fire Chat, The Inaugural

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And more proof 6.5 Grendel is coming back. Wow, my head may 'splode.

The tastes like shit factor is present on the larger hogs. The little 60# and < 'meat hogs' are the ones hunters generally cook. Some guys have a brine that they soak the meat of larger hogs in to get the gamey taste out, but I've only ever done that once (it did work tho).

On the worms I guess cooking would get them out. It's just kinda gross when you go to field dress it and waves of worms fall out and why take a chance? Screw that.

Everyone who hunts hogs has their own little system. Some just shoot and dump all of them (sounds like Omega fits into this category), some (like me) will only eat the meat of specific hogs that fit into certain categories (less than 60#'s, in winter and in an area where they aren't eating nasty shit) and some eat all of them because they consider it 'wasteful' to do otherwise and come up with all sorts of brines and sauces to help with the taste. Depends on the Hunter I guess.

Yeah, there's a right way to do it and a wrong way. Have to protect yourself and do it correctly if you're going to do it. Same with deer.

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The thing is cattle can get brucellosis as well. Bunch of people got sick awhile back from infected meat sold in supermarkets that was also inadequately cooked.

Worms are why you don't see Orientals eating large amounts of pork. They cut pork and beef into cubes or small pieces and cook at high temps to kill the worms.

Loads of the Jews and Muslim religious prohibitions on food are because of disease and prevention of it.

Yes, interesting that they haven't updated those parts in the past few thousand years - - you know, since we've discovered the germ theory of disease, hygiene, refrigeration, heated canning processes...


Maybe replace all those sections with "Cook your food, and don't drink the same water you shit in without boiling it first.  Also, wash your hands."   You could probably cut the Torah and Koran down to a few dozen pages!

Just passing on the intel from my side of the fence   I still know plenty of folks around here that eat their hog kills, plenty of them also mix it in with their venison to add some fat.  I know one guy (DNR employee, actually) who likes to trap hogs, castrate them (thus removing the icky testosterone) and get them fat on corn before slaughtering.  But yeah, Nameless was spot on with the SCDNR press release--Gold Star!!!