Matt Yglesias

18 Responses to “Today in Food Facts”

1. David T Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:22 am

   Somebody ought to follow up on the moose burgers. I’ve made moose chili, and it’s not always that tasty because moose meat hardly has any fat. To make decent moose burgers, they often add pork fat.

   Which might be a good metaphor for Governor earmarks: From a distance it all looks like good old self-reliance out on the frontier, but when you look closer you find out that they add a lot of fat from the pork barrel to make it work.

2. gherald Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:35 am

   From that elk site:
   
   

   Many of you, have asked for Moose Meat. Moose is the largest member of the Deer family, but Elk are second only to moose in size and stature. Unfortunately, almost all moose meat is derived from wild-shot moose. It is illegal to sell wild-shot moose, hence moose meat is very difficult to purchase. Further, Moose are very hard to raise in captivity, hence very few can be found on farms. While moose meat is great tasting, we think elk meat is even better and is much more readily available. Both elk meat and moose meat make very lean venison, sweeter than beef and much better for you being lower in fat and cholesterols. Sooo, While you cant hardly get moose meat you can get elk meat, today right here on the net!

   
   Learn something new every day…

3. CJColucci Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:42 am

   David T, I think you’re on to something. Needs a little sharpening up for sound bite purposes, but I like it. And didn’t Sarah Palin herself post a mooseburger recipe with added pork fat?

4. Cooper Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am

   While I grew up in Connecticut (of all places) eating Moose burgers, steaks and stews throughout the 80’s and early 90’s (my father was the hunter), I still may need a little more in common with Mrs Palin to support her candidacy. Now if I discover she enjoys old school hip-hop…. I may reconsider.

5. redman Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:48 am

   Matt,
   I’m in the cooking business and here’s the reality of arugula: it’s a salad green that grows like a weed and has been eaten by peasants for centuries. Its very nature is unfussy. If you plant it in your garden you will never get it out. It just keeps coming up all over the place, year after year. My wife and I joke that we grow feral arugula. It’s become a symbol of elitism, but if they really want a plant that is fussy or complicated or difficult or expensive to grow– an elite plant– they should look somewhere else.

6. Adam Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 10:50 am

   it wasn’t until this presidential campaign that I ever really had an opportunity to consider my view of arugula in isolation. But I’ve been thinking about it, and I have to see that it’s really not the best thing out there.

   Au contraire, mon frere. Arugula is the balls. As far as salad greens go, absolutely top hole.

7. Andrew Pulrang Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

   I think that the anti-arugula thing isn’t about arugula-eating being evidence of elitism. I think its about the resentment of a significant portion of Americans that unfamiliar foods, drinks, and products with unfamiliar, styles, and tastes are becoming harder and harder to avoid. Call it creeping elitism. When McDonalds fer chrissakes has some green stuff called “arugula” in its salads, what is this world coming to? If we elitists simply enjoyed our fancy food and weird musics on our own, we’d be fine. But these things are perceived to be hegemonic in our popular culture. Same with people who say “hegemonic”.

8. Dan S. Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

   “ I think its about the resentment of a significant portion of Americans that unfamiliar foods, drinks, and products with unfamiliar, styles, and tastes are becoming harder and harder to avoid.”

   Now this is interesting. There was a fascinating post by Tim Burke on Competency as a Cultural Value that noted:

   “There isn’t a plan that can respond to how it feels to come to maturity within one structure of feeling and being in the world, the workplace, the home, your body and then wake one day like Gregor Samsa and find out that all those things are something utterly different than what they once were. My paternal grandparents lived in a little neighborhood in Los Angeles that was mostly white when they moved in, significantly latino when they grew old, and mostly southeast Asian when they died. It’s easy for me to be the cosmopolitan that I am and say that they should have cherished that change, recognized it for the profoundly beautiful and American thing that it was. I live in a world where that kind of pluralism means new things to teach and read, new cuisines to sample, new experiences and histories to enrich my community and my classroom. Because I live in a world where I have the tools to master and manage that kind of change. They lived in a world where that change meant that they’d go to the stores down the street and not be able to read any of the signs nor understand any of the conversations around them in the bank, the grocery store and the post office. I was taught to aestheticize and make use of difference. They weren’t.“

9. Tom Joad Says:
   September 16th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

   Just wanted to quickly add, before I go to that elk website and order myself some elk — I had elk about a year ago at a restaurant, and it was fricking fabulous. I had no idea what to expect, and it was outstanding. In case anyone’s interested.

10. Jonah Simon Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..someone say moose meat, moose meat is probably the most healthiest most tastiest meat ever, you can can this everyday for a year and not gain a pound, this is the only that tastes so good and not gain a pound. I do wonder why people dont sell moose meat. But why should i buy moose meat when i can go out when i want to shoot one eh.(i am indian by the way). but i would love to sell moose meat but as he said its illegal to sell wild meat.

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