re: #180 darthstar

Is BSE now just a blip on history that today’s kids aren’t even aware of it? Think of the poor little prions…just looking for a home.

One minor benefit of the disease: It pretty well eradicated the disgusting practice of eating raw beef. Besides the beef pate of alleged haute cuisine, there was a more proletarian fad in the 50s for what was called the “cannibal sandwich,” raw hamburger on bread. In Texas at one time, it was a popular macho stunt for yokels to order steaks “extra-extra lean,” essentially raw with slight scorching on one side. This behavior seemed to be most common among the same yahoos who would ostentatiously consume “mountain oysters” and oysters-on-the-half- shell. Fortunately, I never heard of them trying mountain-oysters-on-the-half-shell, so I guess there is a limit to everything.