Thread: OK, Now I would like to talk about the appetites of Kiwi's

I have Gmail, and on the inbox page is adverts running down the page to the right of the mail and the adverts are connected to the main topic of the letter being viewed.
Well I had a letter page of jokes from a friend and in the advert column was sales of sheep placenta, which is afterbirth.
Now I know, as I was raised on a ranch with both Horses, cows and sheep, plus other animals found around most homes, and afterbirth is never eaten except by the animal or the coyotes or carrion eating animals or birds.
Well that was before I came to Thailand to live and we got some cows around the house and back yard, and when one has a calf the Thai come real fast and collect the afterbirth [placenta], it has been asked on here what is done with it and I have asked my wife and she says that some country/farmer folks do in fact eat it.
Well anyway, I noticed in NZ that they had adds for Placenta for sale, so I went and looked, and sure as shit, they do and here is the add link.

Health Supplements Online Store, New Zealand

Now I thought that that was very strange, so I goggled placenta, and here is something that gonna knock your dick right in the dirt.

Placenta Recipes

Now if you can beat that or have ever heard of such shit being done north of Africa or Papau New Guinea I do not want to know about it.

thanks,

you really are your own advertisement of everything bad about the previous generation.

well do you think that you can eat that kind of shit or not, due to the fact that you are of the modern generation,
During my time we didn't eat shit like that, we got jobs that paid well enough that we could buy rib steaks and rump roasts and T bones and only ate the outside of things, never had to stoop to eating the inside of anything cept watermellons and avacados and tomatoes.
But then again like I said we didnt have to work for TEFL wages.

Google "Kiwi - diet" and it comes up worms!
But to be fair it was referring to the bird!

Originally Posted by blackgang

well do you think that you can eat that kind of shit or not, due to the fact that you are of the modern generation,

I'm not even talking about the substance of what you posted, rather your manner of insulting jus about everyone you can think of, niggers, spics, homos? are these words that you use often?

Originally Posted by blackgang

During my time we didn't eat shit like that, we got jobs that paid well enough that we could buy rib steaks and rump roasts and T bones and only ate the outside of things, never had to stoop to eating the inside of anything cept watermellons and avacados and tomatoes.

Lambs fry is great stuff!

Originally Posted by blackgang

But then again like I said we didnt have to work for TEFL wages.

neither do i, and i guess do most New Zealanders in New Zealand....

and what is the purpose of the placenta ?

any idea why fish heads and eyes are prized titbits ?

Let's get ant to weigh in on this shall we?

Have heard that placenta is used in some of these expensive wrinkle creams. Can you imagine paying megabucks to smear that on your face??

Germans spend a lot money to smear all kinds of horrible shit on faces. Or so I've heard.

Ain't nothing BG, a Kiwis favorite snack is mountain oysters, Yum Yum

Originally Posted by November Rain

Have heard that placenta is used in some of these expensive wrinkle creams. Can you imagine paying megabucks to smear that on your face??

Lanolin is made from placenta NR, sorry to break it to you.

I've eaten it, by stealth. Mrs got this dish a couple of times from the market, green veg with some gunk. When I was stupid enough to ask what this quite pleasant dish was, I was told it was cows placenta.

Originally Posted by sabang

Lanolin is made from placenta NR, sorry to break it to you.

I thought that was the grease from sheeps wool? I hope so, I once spent a summer working at a research centre dipping logs into great big bloody vats of it.

^ Correct Ant, sorry NR. I think the hidden gem of truth is that pretty much all lanolin based face creams also have sheeps placenta in the mix.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Lambs fry is great stuff!

Originally Posted by peterpan

Ain't nothing BG, a Kiwis favorite snack is mountain oysters, Yum Yum

Same thing, we used to eat mountain oysters every spring when we were marking calves or sheep, But is a hell of a lot different that after birth. Don't know why as it is guts,same as liver if you wanted to consider it the same, but I won't eat liver either, as I have said, I will not eat the insides out of animals, only some fruits and veggies.

Whilst we're talking of placenta's...

It's Maori tradition to take the placenta and bury it under a tree. Modern times and storage techniques being what they are this isn't always done immediately and I've heard stories from members of my iwi/extended whanau of digging into the freezer looking for ice-creams and coming across a plastic bag stuck in the permafrost containing a perfectly preserved placenta.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by sabang

Lanolin is made from placenta NR, sorry to break it to you.

I thought that was the grease from sheeps wool? I hope so, I once spent a summer working at a research centre dipping logs into great big bloody vats of it.

Lanolin comes from fcuking sheeps wool.It keeps the water out ffs.It's also a reason why shearers have shiny knuckles.....Sabang has obviously never been shearing.

Originally Posted by sabang

I think the hidden gem of truth is that pretty much all lanolin based face creams also have sheeps placenta in the mix.

Frankly I'm relieved to hear that. What had been a memory of a hard, dirty and unpleasant summers work would've taken a change for even the worse!

^^ Yeh, already corrected meself LC. Never shorn a sheep, but have had the pleasure of picking up flyblown sheeps carcasses, in which case you hope that all that ends up on your hands is lanolin.

Here's the story. My wife just got back from Berkeley where she helped a friend give birth--and of course it all happened at home, in some kind of tub, underwater, with violins playing and midwives hovering about. Here's what she says happened next. Out came the afterbirth, which was carefully collected in a pot and put in the fridge to keep cool. Through the day, various vegetarians who dropped by to pay their respects asked about the placenta. My wife inquired, and was told that a certain stripe of high-minded vegetarian eagerly prepares and devours placenta stew, the placenta being the only form of meat that does not involve the slaughter of some innocent animal. Can this be true? And if it is, why isn't some shrewd entrepreneur bagging cow and ewe placenta and selling it at the Jewel?

I want to be told this was a tall story. --Rip Sewell, Chicago

Cecil replies: linky

The Straight Dope: Is there really such a thing as ... placenta stew?

^^Yummy

Originally Posted by blackgang

was told that a certain stripe of high-minded vegetarian eagerly prepares and devours placenta stew

Does not compute, aside from the obvious considerations why would vegetarians eat placenta?

Methinks I smell a lightly broiled urban-myth.

Vegans are weird anyway, but if you follow the link it does explain it, I guess it is easy to understand if you are a vegan, I ain't.

well I have talked to Vegans that sounded like the reason that they were was because they didn't want nothing to die so they could eat.
One I had a bucket of steamers I had just raked and asked him to have supper on my boat with me if he wanted, and he said "NO, nothing has to die so I can live".
And I thought Fuck you, they gonna die anyway and I will eat 1/2 of em .tomorrow.