Yes, I realize there is ALSO a prohibition in the OT for eating fat, at least in many circumstances. AND, I like the fat as well, but I like it hot and crispy.Soloist wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:27 pmWife: thankfully, I am a gentile, because I like it with all the fat still on it. I would go for medium rather than medium rare, though, and I totally go for the steak sauce even for the best tasting steaks.
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Growing up, I hated the fat. In fact I was probably in my upper thirties or forties before I started liking it. I found out later that my Mom would cut off as much of the fat as she dared (so that Dad wouldn't know), but Dad would make us eat whatever was on our plate, including the chicken skin and the fat on whatever the meat was. You can only sneakily just happen to cut off so much fat from the piece of meat you are taking.
Then I went out with a bunch of the Banawa men once, on a 3 hour walk (one way) to go to help bring back meat from a tapir that one of the men had shot, and had roasted right beside the trail, near where he had gotten it. (A full-grown tapir is about the size of a full-grown sow, so no one man can carry it all back that far, even after it is roasted. So, he stayed there, waiting for someone to come along the trail, to take the message back to the village to come and get it.) Tapirs have a layer of fat just under the hide about an inch thick, and when we arrived there he roasted some chunks of it for us - energy food. That was the first time I willingly ate fat, and I have liked it ever since. But it DOES need to be crispy on the outside, and nice & hot on the inside. (I still don't go for cold fat.)