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    People have eaten Pokemon. There's a whole ritual with the bones once you're done so you can honor them properly.

    Though, as the majority of Pokemon have been shown to understand English, I'd probably go vegetarian myself because I'd see it as halfway to cannibalism. There are berry trees all around, and at worst, I'm asking a Tropius or something for some fruit, and it can choose whether or not to give them to me.

    No, wait... fruit are basically Plant eggs, aren't they?

    And while I'm at it, I wonder if people eat Cherrims? That would be terrifying, actually.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    Quite possible, they also use them as weapons it seems.
    That's why they're delicious with leeks. They're always close at hand and whoever kills a farfetch'd to eat it appreciates the poetic justice of simmering the buggers with their own weapons that they presumably bruised them up with.
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    They don't just use them as weapons - they use them as swords, and they hack down trees with them.

    As far as I'm concerned, Farfetch'd is actually a god.
    Obviously, their leek swordsmanship is a survival mechanism - once upon a time, a Farfetch'd decided it didn't want to get eaten with leek, so it grabbed the leek and beat the hunter. It became the primogenitor of the modern strain of the species. Several thousand generations later, it's become an instinctive to the species, so whenever they see a leek, they enter a berserker fury and beat everything down with it.
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    That's why they're delicious with leeks. They're always close at hand and whoever kills a farfetch'd to eat it appreciates the poetic justice of simmering the buggers with their own weapons that they presumably bruised them up with.
    Unless it's the other way round - the Farfetch'd know their culinary complement, and deliberately carry it as a boast of bravado - they're so confident in their martial ability that if they lose, they'll give you the perfect side dish to eat them with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
    Unless it's the other way round - the Farfetch'd know their culinary complement, and deliberately carry it as a boast of bravado - they're so confident in their martial ability that if they lose, they'll give you the perfect side dish to eat them with.
    Well, no, you'd have to have more than one leek to have a proper side dish, so there's it's taunting you with the prospect of having to hunt up some more leeks unless you mean to use the leek solely as a way to bring out the farfetch'd's flavor or for stewing.
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    Now I'm planning a Pokemon diner. Thinking Tauros steak, Miltank milk, a side of Roselia salad with a Sunkern garnish...

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    Now I'm planning a Pokemon diner. Thinking Tauros steak, Miltank milk, a side of Roselia salad with a Sunkern garnish...
    Throw in some grilled Oddish slices and a Vanillish for desert.

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    Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

    Drats... now I'm hungry...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk View Post
    Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

    Drats... now I'm hungry...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Socratov View Post
    Ehm, maybe it's where I live, but in the Netherlands most cows are fed with grass, hay and if thsoe are ngo available on cattlefood. Sure steaks are expensive that way, but oh so good.

    But why is corn used then? I can hardly imagine a reason to specifically grom more corn so you can ruin your animals with it.
    Short answer: It's cheap. Farmers get more profit by paying less to feed their livestock.
    Long ranty answer: Most people on this planet don't have a pallette worth mentioning. Proof positive is the multitude of people who eat at McDonalds on a fairly regular basis. As such, people just don't have an eye for quality.

    Also, what the animal was fed is not always labelled on the package. Not all chicken is corn fed, true, but not all corn fed chicken is labelled as corn fed. And if it isn't labelled, most people don't have the curiosity/sense to ask. Most have no idea that corn fed is the lower quality. I've had arguements with people where they insist that grass fed cattle is the lower grade, because "grass has no nutritional value" which is facepalm fodder right there. But as such, the stores and the farmers get away with quite a lot, mostly due to a lack of food education and a lack of interest in where one's food comes from. Which goes hand in hand with why the average person has no idea the environmental effects of modern livestock agriculture. Or the degree to which some animals suffer at the hands of poor owners. People take all these things for granted because we can walk into a supermarket, swipe a card, and walk out with whatever we want.

    I could go on, but then it slowly turns into multples of /rant and that's just no fun. But I'll say this right now. My fiance is a vet. Her boss used to do livestock. I'm pretty sure I could gross out just about anyone here with some of the stories he's told me, and he's only told me the tame stuff.
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    Anything to do with agriculture is shot through with politics as well, so it's difficult to discuss here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk View Post
    Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

    Drats... now I'm hungry...
    Don't forget the steamed crabby with that tauros steak... mmm surf and turf, with a nice slice of cherrim pie.

    Relevant to topic: PETA is crazy and meat is delicious say what you will about being better for the environment but it will not change the fact that meat will always be tasty and I shall enjoy until the end of my days....mmm bacon.
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    So, I read an article last night where PETA actually protested something that WAS pretty nasty >< Some "artist" dude created an exhibit that used live butterflies inside of a sealed, clear room/box/whatever, and around 9,000 of them died(400 died a day and needed to be replaced). Pretty horrific if you ask me ><

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    Quote Originally Posted by Starwulf View Post
    So, I read an article last night where PETA actually protested something that WAS pretty nasty >< Some "artist" dude created an exhibit that used live butterflies inside of a sealed, clear room/box/whatever, and around 9,000 of them died(400 died a day and needed to be replaced). Pretty horrific if you ask me ><

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...HV0UYrE0yPwH7Q
    Female butterflies lay around 100 eggs, for insects 9000 isn't much because they have ways to survive on by virtue of procreating faster than they can be killed. Art for art sake, pianos have been burned while being played in the name of music, and people haven't protested for ants or cockroaches deaths for less glorified purposes, it just happens butterflies look more beautiful so people can say "that's wrong".

    And that's without considering that butterflies have a survival rate of 2% on the wild, which means they would have died anyway out there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karoht View Post
    Short answer: It's cheap. Farmers get more profit by paying less to feed their livestock.
    Long ranty answer: Most people on this planet don't have a pallette worth mentioning. Proof positive is the multitude of people who eat at McDonalds on a fairly regular basis. As such, people just don't have an eye for quality.

    Also, what the animal was fed is not always labelled on the package. Not all chicken is corn fed, true, but not all corn fed chicken is labelled as corn fed. And if it isn't labelled, most people don't have the curiosity/sense to ask. Most have no idea that corn fed is the lower quality. I've had arguements with people where they insist that grass fed cattle is the lower grade, because "grass has no nutritional value" which is facepalm fodder right there. But as such, the stores and the farmers get away with quite a lot, mostly due to a lack of food education and a lack of interest in where one's food comes from. Which goes hand in hand with why the average person has no idea the environmental effects of modern livestock agriculture. Or the degree to which some animals suffer at the hands of poor owners. People take all these things for granted because we can walk into a supermarket, swipe a card, and walk out with whatever we want.

    I could go on, but then it slowly turns into multples of /rant and that's just no fun. But I'll say this right now. My fiance is a vet. Her boss used to do livestock. I'm pretty sure I could gross out just about anyone here with some of the stories he's told me, and he's only told me the tame stuff.
    it's not about what's on the packet, but what I see them eat (around my house, farms in the enighbourhood, etc.)
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    Don't forget the steamed crabby with that tauros steak... mmm surf and turf, with a nice slice of cherrim pie.

    Relevant to topic: PETA is crazy and meat is delicious say what you will about being better for the environment but it will not change the fact that meat will always be tasty and I shall enjoy until the end of my days....mmm bacon.
    hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...
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    hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...
    What would you call the equivalent from a tepig? tebacon?
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    it's not about what's on the packet, but what I see them eat (around my house, farms in the enighbourhood, etc.)

    hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...
    Well you wouldn't really see all the cows that are locked up in meat factories with barely enough room to lie down now would you? The cows grazing peacefully out in the fields on the other hand are not only very visible, but make the entire area smell like cow pies.
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    Cow pies = beef pies
    Beef pies = good

    From what I recall, corn is subsidised in the US to the point where it's rhe only viable thing economically in some areas.

    It's not every country that has acres and acres of corn. A d that corn is done thing we can eat, so the cows are competing with us for food.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katana_Geldar View Post
    Cow pies = beef pies
    Beef pies = good

    From what I recall, corn is subsidised in the US to the point where it's rhe only viable thing economically in some areas.

    It's not every country that has acres and acres of corn. A d that corn is done thing we can eat, so the cows are competing with us for food.
    That's interesting. Cow pies are a euphemism for bovine excrement in the U.S.

    And, yes, there is perhaps too much corn.
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    They put it in soft drinks too, right? Is corn syrup as ubiquitous as I have heard it to be?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Katana_Geldar View Post
    They put it in soft drinks too, right? Is corn syrup as ubiquitous as I have heard it to be?
    It is in the majority of prepared foods, soda is probably one of the places, aside from certain baked goods and other confections(I know some use it as a binder(?) for pastry cream and certain kinds of icing), where corn syrup actually makes a certain amount of sense to use it if you've got it though.
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    Corn syrup has replaced sugar in soda, bread, most sauces and condiments, candy, most sugared drinks (that arent 100% juice), it can be found in many canned good, and processed anything. Its also used for gasoline, and its kind of silly because where they do it in Brazil they are closer to the equator and the delta on corn is much higher. Using US corn you end up using more energy than if you had just used regular gasoline. Its physics or some sciency thing like that.

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    What would you call the equivalent from a tepig? tebacon?
    Tepig is actually useful, though. And probably fire-resistant, to boot.

    You'd be making Swinub or Spoink bacon.

    Are there any other pig Pokemon?

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    Tepig is actually useful, though. And probably fire-resistant, to boot.

    You'd be making Swinub or Spoink bacon.

    Are there any other pig Pokemon?
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    The only problem with that is the acronym "People Eating Tasty Animals" doesn't really apply anymore. Unless you're Hannibal Lecter.
    Lets have some fava beans and a glass of chianti to that.
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    Tepig bacon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xondoure View Post
    Well you wouldn't really see all the cows that are locked up in meat factories with barely enough room to lie down now would you? The cows grazing peacefully out in the fields on the other hand are not only very visible, but make the entire area smell like cow pies.
    I have seen some farms in the area, and I haven't seen that. I'm not sure, but I think there is some law against that in the netherlands (or at least it is heavily frowned upon). On another note, The corn that's grown for livestock purposes is not the corn you love to glaze and roast (that is, it's not sweet corn) andtastes horrible.
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    Tepig bacon.
    Fire type. Pig.
    Pre cooked bacon?

    "I'll take two Blissey eggs, Sunny side up, one Chansey Egg over easy, four strips of Tepig Bacon, a glass of juiced Tropius fruit... I think that'll be it for me."
    I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)
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    I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Socratov View Post
    I have seen some farms in the area, and I haven't seen that. I'm not sure, but I think there is some law against that in the netherlands (or at least it is heavily frowned upon). On another note, The corn that's grown for livestock purposes is not the corn you love to glaze and roast (that is, it's not sweet corn) andtastes horrible.

    I like the way you are thinking

    I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)
    I never said we'd eat the same things they do, but growing different crops people can eat is more efficient.
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