I have a strong urge to eat brains
I have always had a strong urge to eat the raw squid at the fisherman wharf, or raw shrimp and lobster. I think my self is trying to tell me something!
I currently have a 66% meat diet, mostly smoked wild Alaskan salmon until I can sort out this raw carnivore thing.
This guy I used to work with, eons ago around 1990, bought brains from the local grocery store that came in a plastic tub container.I assume it was pre-cooked. He would put salt on it and eat it straight. Kids would scream, women would faint.
Anyway, I have recently come to the conclusion that brains are probably one of the healthiest things you can eat. Omega 3 DHA, cholesterol, nutrients. I was tested and I had very low cholesterol levels, which is not good at all, probably worse than having too high cholesterol. Brains might be cleaner than say, liver because (I assume) that animals have a blood brain barrier like humans do which keeps out some but not all of the contaminants. Lions and tigers and bears (oh my!) kill and eat the organs first, but I think they don't eat the brains quickly just because it is easier to gut a zebra than break it's skull open.
I AM a conspiracy nut, so the word "prions" gives me extreme caution and suspicion at the same time. In a world where the government tells you that all bad things are good and all good things are bad, I am trying to figure out a middleground like alternative sources of brains other than from cows or pigs, and maybe cooked but that supposedly doesn't kill prions. Oh, and I can't even find brains at the grocery stores any more. Were they all banned from a prion scare, the way tryptophan was banned right before Prozac was released to the market? Maybe an oriental grocery market would have brains. I ty to avoid eating anything from China because of contaminants.
So, any info on sources of brains or options other than cow/pig brains would be appreciated.
Awesome website by the way.
