Kangaroo and Llama!

This is actually news to me, and I'm not totally sure what's going on.

Fortunately, there's a bit of a back-story to fill this post. You see, Georgia and I occasionally frequent an eclectic fondue restaurant called La Fondue, where they serve all manners of exotic beast to be dipped into a boiling concoction of your choosing and consumed. This is fun. We have eaten just about everything on the menu, including wild boar, ostrich, alligator, bison, crocodile, and plenty more that I'm forgetting.

On our most recent trip, however, there were new additions to the already extensive menu, including the aforementioned kangaroo and llama. For whatever reason, this was too much for GP, so we avoided those particular meats.

It appears that the kangaroo sticking-point was their semi-bipedal posture (which makes her chicken consumption a somewhat questionable,) and in retrospect, I think the llama might fit into the previous post in regards to her just liking those animals too much.

Anyway, I would eat the hell out of some kangaroo or llama if given the chance again.

Pork and Lamb!

I have decided to address these two TGDE in tandem for a couple reasons:

1. They are arguably the only TGDE yet discovered that can be traced to an emotional level, rather than one of the more specific (and arcane) justifications that have been discussed in previous posts.
2. They hold very special places in both my heart, and my personal diet.

In regards to the first point: Georgia has nothing in particular against the taste, texture, smell or consistency of either of these foods. While lamb would likely not be her favorite flavor she would probably still eat it, and she has conceded before that her memory of bacon is that it's delicious (a very accurate memory.) Her problem arises from liking the animals (in their corporeal state) too much, and disliking the way in which they are treated when being raised for food. This probably comes as close to logical justification as any of the TGDE criteria ever have.

A brief side note addressing the second point: Oh God, I love these two foods. I really can't imagine my diet without them. I go through periods of eating vastly irresponsible amounts of bacon, punctuated by periods of eating irresponsible amounts of bacon. I probably consume more lamb than any person outside of Iran (maybe the Middle East in general,) and can't imagine somebody enjoying the taste, nay, experience of eating it more than I do. Side note over.