Are You Lard Enough?

YOU ARE what you eat a worrying thought if your favourite scram happens to be spiced donkey meat or frozen drone pupae.
Although they don t find their way into too many Irish shopping-trolleys, both are considered delicacies in South East Asia where you can also feast on canned ants, clam jerky and something very unpleasant involving a dog s posterior.
In recognition of the fact that one man s Pork Brains in Milk Gravy is another s trip to the hospital to get his stomach pumped, the gourmet-types at Lard have put together an A to Z of the world s strangest foodstuffs.
Not that Stuffed Camel is considered strange by Saudi Arabia s answer to Darina Allen, Shararazod Eboli, who supplies this easy-to-follow recipe:
1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste
Skin, trim and clean camel, lamb and chicken. Boil until tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves friendly crowd of 80 to 100.
If you want something to wash that down with, why not try a glass of Meeter s Sauerkraut Juice which, rich as it is in Vitamin C, is the perfect cure for intestinal bugs?
It mightn t be quite the thing to serve the kids at Christmas but with a large hunk of Huang s Silkworm Bread, Kylmaenen Reindeer Pati makes for a perfect picnic treat. You could also bring along some chocolate-covered bees very popular in Peru or the gloopy chip/cheese/turkey fat combination that Quebecois call Poutine (not to be confused with Sam Snort s favourite dish Ed). More tempting than a Deep-Fried Mars Bar at closing time, it contains 1,101% of the recommended daily cholestrol intake.
Go on, treat your arteries!
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