[TaintRight]

I admit it. I'm pretty quick to call a foul, even on myself.

[Celticwarrior]

Yup, even as recently as the 1920-1930's, during the Depression, there were a lot of deaths from Protein Poisoning. The poor rural and semi-rural folks ended up raising rabbits and pigeons for food, because they were small and easy sources of fresh meat. Problem was, both were very low in fats. Without supplimenting their diets with something else, like lard, suet, butter, oils, or other sources of fat, they went into a malnutrition spiral that lead to their eventual deaths. Funny thing is, if they had just known what the problem was, they probably could have prevented it without too much cost or trouble, even in the midst of the Depression. Sort of like simple Vitamin C stopping Scurvy.

From "My Life with the Eskimos" by Vilhjalmur Stefanson, the author wrote in 1913:
In certain places and in certain years rabbits are an important article of diet, but even when there is an abundance of this animal, the Indians consider themselves starving if they get nothing else, ~~ and fairly enough, as my own party can testify, for any one who is compelled in winter to live for a period of several weeks on lean meat will actually starve, in this sense : that there are lacking in his diet certain elements, notably fat, and it makes no difference how much he eats, he will be hungry at the end of each meal and eventually he will lose strength or becomes actually ill.

Of our entire seven I was now the only one not actually sick, and I felt by no means well. Doing hard work in cold weather on a diet nearly devoid of fat is a most interesting and uncommon experiment in dietetics, and may therefore be worth describing in some detail. The symptoms that result from a diet of lean meat are practically those of starvation. The caribou on which we had to live had marrow in their bones that was as blood, and in most of them no fat was discernible even behind the eyes or in the tongue. When we had been on a diet of oil straight, a few weeks before, we had found that with a teacupful of oil a day there were no symptoms of hunger; we grew each day sleepier and more slovenly, and no doubt lost strength gradually, but at the end of our meals of long haired caribou skin and oil we felt satisfied and at ease. Now with a diet of lean meat everything was different. We had an abundance of it as yet and we would boil up huge quantities and stuff ourselves with it. We ate so much that out stomachs were actually distended much beyond their usual size ~~ so much that it was distinctly noticeable even outside of one's clothes. But with all this gorging we felt constantly hungry. Simultaneously we felt like unto bursting and also as if we had not had enough to eat. One by one the six Eskimos of the party were taken with diarrhea.

[Dick]

Here's a link that may proove to be a bit of an eye opener to some.
Offal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Being of European decent i have been exposed to all sorts of foods from bits and pieces of animals, but they are few and far between in North American food establishments.
I really like lamb and calf liver, lamb and beef kidney...if prepared properly. I've never had tripe, but I have had Vietnamese Pho with intestines and tendons in it, chickens feet, grouse gizzards, chicken hearts, and moose heart.
Boiled pork hocks make a nice jelly for pork pies...Mmmmmm.

[LaRemnant]

Originally Posted by Dick

I've never had tripe...

Isn't that cow stomach? DON'T EAT THAT CRAP!!! I had it once, and I ended up wrapping my legs around my head on the toilet and holding the seat like a steering wheel with the facial expression going down a roller coaster!!! ... for a couple days...

[stairman]

Scary thought Larem! funny how you detest cleaning a toilet even with a brush and rubber gloves, but when your sick you have your head laying across the seat and pay no mind to what was in it an hour earlier. One reason I dont drink much alcohol, only in moderation.

[tjwilhelm]

HA!!! LMAO!!! Good one, Stairman!!! LR!! you crack me up, bro'!

[LaRemnant]

Originally Posted by stairman

Scary thought Larem! funny how you detest cleaning a toilet even with a brush and rubber gloves, but when your sick you have your head laying across the seat and pay no mind to what was in it an hour earlier. One reason I dont drink much alcohol, only in moderation.

Once, I had the unfortunate experience to have drunk SO much the night before, that when I was in the middle of throwing up, out of NOWHERE, I had insta-diarrhea, and didn't have enough sense at the time to use the trash can so I flopped back and forth LOL

... Gives a whole new meaning to the word Sh** faced.

BTW, this was YEARS ago. I don't drink anymore really LOL

[scorch]

something large like a deer gives you so much, edible meat heart and liver. bait with intestines and other organs. inverted stomach water carrier(purified)straw from windpipe, tons of bone tools, warmth from skin,saws with the lower jaws(minor) so much from a single animal.(plus salt from blood)

[stairman]

Good point Scorch. Also hooves can be boiled down to make a strong glue, and the brains for tanning hides. Dried tendons for strong cordage. [sinew]

[scorch]

Originally Posted by stairman

Good point Scorch. Also hooves can be boiled down to make a strong glue, and the brains for tanning hides. Dried tendons for strong cordage. [sinew]

too bad the glue isnt waterproof, also you can use backstrap for cordage.