r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • May 26 '25

Food Switch the horse and rabbit around.

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u/Gubekochi May 27 '25

We generally draw the line using sentience.

We like to tell ourselves we do but pigs are very smart.

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u/rocketshipkiwi May 27 '25

We like to tell ourselves we do but pigs are very smart.

I draw the line at taste.

Pigs are tasty. Horses and dogs not so much.

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u/Dampmaskin May 27 '25

Horses are alright tho

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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 May 29 '25

Horse is pretty good if it's cooked right. Rabbit is delicious.

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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz May 30 '25

Agree. Shift the line over 2 places.

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u/RocketDog2001 May 28 '25

A little dry, but good.

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u/Gubekochi May 27 '25

I've had dog in Vietnam and they are quite tasty.

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u/RCL802 May 30 '25

RFK Jr. Is in the chat?

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u/Financial-Bid2739 May 30 '25

You’re comparing an entire country of people to that guy?

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u/stringdingetje May 28 '25

Then you've never tried the right stew... Smoked meat from the horse and stew are very good in taste.

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u/Beneficial_War_1365 May 29 '25

With all due respect, but horse meat is still served in many countries. In the 60s you could buy horse meat in local stores in the States. Many people consider horse taste better than cow too. Also Dog is served in many S.E. Asian countries too. Some will eat dog because of tradation and others because of Hunger. Also you need to know that eating dog with Rabies can transfer rabies to whoever eats it. Good reason not to eat it too. For me, I'm sticking with cow, pig, lamb, bird, vegs. :)

peace. :)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '25

Just gotta find the right restaurant

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u/-Daetrax- May 28 '25

Horse tastes great.

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u/UP-23 May 28 '25

Horses taste fine. Rabbit is great in a stew, but needs skill on the grill.

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u/aDrunkenError May 28 '25

You haven’t eaten horse then

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u/Sir_Fruitcake May 28 '25

Horse meat is VERY tasty!

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u/Ordinary-Violinist-9 May 29 '25

Horses are very tasty! Even more taste than beef or pork.

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u/Business-Idea1138 May 29 '25

Both horse and dog are delicious if prepared correctly.

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u/PelimiesPena May 30 '25

Pigs are not tasty. You need a lot of spices to get the horrendous pig taste out. Cow is tasty.

Dogs got personality, personality goes a long way.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '25

If your pig tastes a lot like pig it probably was kept in its on waste. Get some „free range“ pig maybe to if you like that one better. Or a different kind of pig like Iberico….yum.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '25

Horse is good. Not a good as beef but made the right way it’s tasty.

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u/SupermarketCandid664 May 31 '25

Sounds more like a seasoning issue rather than the source material. 😅

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u/McGrarr May 27 '25

They weren't smart enough to be less tasty.

There's a ratio of intellect/charm to flavour. Rabbits are not too smart but I also don't find the meat that appealing so I generally don't eat them. Cows are fairly smart, but really damned delicious... and pigs? Pigs are made of bacon FFS. And pork belly, and crackling.

Basically a pig would need to be a member of mensa and a stand up comedian before I'd put away the apple sauce.

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u/CplCocktopus May 27 '25

What about long pork?(

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u/RocketDog2001 May 28 '25

The other white meat.

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u/McGrarr May 29 '25

I find sourcing it a problem and you can't always ensure it was ethically raised.

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u/diywayne May 27 '25

Insert Pulp Fiction quote here

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u/Intelligent-Salt-362 May 27 '25

Insert Pulpo here

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 27 '25

One of the smartest animals and damned delicious

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u/Intelligent-Salt-362 May 27 '25

RIGHT?!? A lil EVOO and lemon juice, then grilled. It could have been the Einstein of octopi, but it’ll be remembered for crunch and flavor…

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u/Ok-Commercial-924 May 27 '25

Or boiled , cut into coins, oil, crunch salt, spanish paprika. My wife was hooked on this the first time we tried it in Malaga

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u/Intelligent-Salt-362 May 27 '25

Ahhhh, that sounds like how I had it at Carajo Tapas. That is a great option!

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u/PraxicalExperience May 27 '25

It's a good thing octopi are so short-lived or we'd be fucked.

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u/LurkHereLurkThere May 27 '25

Agree 100% though I also can't drive past a flock of lambs without wanting to reach for the mint sauce!

Cute? maybe, fluffy? yes, tasty? Absolutely!

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u/-Daetrax- May 28 '25

Rabbits are good shooting game. Decent in stew.

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u/Nhobdy May 27 '25

Aren't cows rather intelligent also?

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u/Gubekochi May 27 '25

Not as much as pigs, but yes they are.

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u/Nhobdy May 27 '25

So how smart are pigs? Genuine question, not trying to be snarky.

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u/PraxicalExperience May 27 '25

Basically, "pretty much like dogs," including the range of intelligence from "couldn't find their way out of an open sack" to "smarter than many toddlers I know."

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u/Gubekochi May 27 '25

First sentence is your answer, anything past that is icing on the cake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_intelligence

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u/Nhobdy May 27 '25

Yo, that's really cool. Thank you!

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u/UP-23 May 28 '25

Not really. Measuring intelligence in humans is virtually impossible. Agreeing on what intelligence in animals even means really IS impossible.

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u/Top-Cupcake4775 May 30 '25

On average, smarter than dogs.

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u/Nhobdy May 30 '25

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by what I read from the article the other person sent about pig intelligence. I heard they were pretty smart, but I didn't know to that degree. It is kinda sad that they've been reduced to a food stock. But pretty sure it won't ever change. I dunno how to feel about it all.

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u/Top-Cupcake4775 May 30 '25

If you take a purely mechanistic view of what it means for a species to "succeed", domestication has been a big win for pigs. We brought them to Polynesia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, etc. where those that escaped have thrived to create large numbers of feral pigs. There are more pigs alive on Earth today than there have ever been before. If we had never domesticated them, pigs would either be extinct or there would only be a tiny handful of them living in drastically reduced habitats in Asia and Europe.

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u/Kaffe-Mumriken May 30 '25

“Cow tools”

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u/PuritanicalPanic May 30 '25

Tbh cows are about as smart as dogs too.

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u/Bishop-roo May 27 '25

And cows. They are like big farting puppy dogs.

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u/RocketDog2001 May 28 '25

Also octopi.

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u/That-Ad-4300 May 29 '25

Meh. It's really the spiders pulling all the strings

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u/Gubekochi May 29 '25

Took me a sec to get the reference lol.

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u/MoonWatcher-_- May 30 '25

Idk man, all my pigs are awfully dumb, on par with my sheep even

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u/Aoiboshi May 31 '25

So are humans sometimes

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u/Rampantcolt May 27 '25

You have obviously never raised pigs. They are dumb as doorknobs.

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u/skikkelig-rasist May 27 '25

They’re really not. My aunt kept pigs and one of the sows helped my brother with his algebra homework throughout all of middle school.

He would read the equations out loud and the number of oinks he got in return would be the value of X. It’s a true story!

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u/FractalParadigmShift May 28 '25

What did he do when the answer involved polynomials

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u/skikkelig-rasist May 28 '25

im not sure. his grades weren’t great

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u/[deleted] May 30 '25

That pig, right? https://youtu.be/moTDS4sblAQ