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emmline wrote:I'm not sure about any of this being on the Dean Ornish diet plan. I will have to check the book.

Dean Ornish can kiss my asparagus. Yes, I'm a poster child for bad habits, but while I refuse to be orthorexic about it, one thing I do do is eat healthily overall, as meat eaters go. An occasional little indulgence like this won't kill me. But even if it did, it would be the best last meal I can think of.

Nanohedron wrote:...it would be the best last meal I can think of.

Maybe it would help move some of the California executions along. Oh, wait, we killed that forum, didn't we?

Nanohedron wrote:while I refuse to be orthorexic about it

Good. I'm completely in favor of heterorexia.

emmline wrote:I'm completely in favor of heterorexia.

It is the Middle Path, after all. And I'm glad to say that even I have the moral fortitude to actually eat vegetarian fare, too. Of course in my case usually that means a salad without bacon bits, but there you have it.

Nanohedron wrote:So, pork marrow or beef marrow? What more do I have to do, start a freakin' poll?

Since you are on your way to the butcher's anyway, why not get some of both, roast them, taste them and then report back here with your results? I, for one, am waiting breathlessly to see what word you use to describe the less-unctuous sample.

I had no idea that someone might be a fancier of my pen! I usually think of it as a curse upon me, and as an undeserved scourge to the poor, hapless reader.

A side-by-side taste test does sound best, doesn't it, and I think that is what I should do. Good idea. I would probably like them both, but I have a suspicion that I will be partial to the flavor of pork marrow. But pork bones are smaller than beef bones of course, so to me they would have to be really, really, fabulously extra-good for me to say, "Less is more."

Bear in mind that marrow being marrow, I expect it's improbable that either would outstrip the other in unctuousness, for that is more a texturally indulgent sensation that is the vehicle for the flavors that come with it.

I do have to go to the grocer today or tomorrow, and I've looked forward to having a little talk with the butcher since I began this thread. But the taste test may need to wait for a time yet, because I still have to dispose of the remains of the ham, and that means either split pea soup or boiled dinner. Let us be patient; I promise I shall not disappoint you.

Hmm. I asked, and the young lady didn't know the first thing about it; she told me I would have to ask the actual butchers, and they're gone after 2pm. 2pm? This is turning into a real project.