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In all practicality, you wouldn't care to consume wild boar due to boar taint[1]. It's disgusting to everyone, but women are particularly sensitive to the male
by washadjeffmad 6y ago
In all practicality, you wouldn't care to consume wild boar due to boar taint[1].
It's disgusting to everyone, but women are particularly sensitive to the male sex hormone and tend to find it highly unpalatable.
There's a reason why boars are used historically to represent especially unpleasant or revolting men.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
- ChuckMcM 6y agoEwww, but okay. I wonder what the sex ratio is of wild pigs. Thanks for that link tho, learn something new every day.
- rriepe 6y agoSurely we'll find something that eats it, and then eat that?
- morsch 6y agoIt's commonly eaten in Europe (as commonly as any other game meat, anyway). By both men and women. It's not disgusting at all.
- kasey_junk 6y agoWild Boar meat is eaten in the US as well but a) almost always you’d prefer juvenile boar and b) boar taint is undetectable to many people. I for one don’t have a problem but my wife is repulsed by it. Also it’s not “gamey” it’s a different flavor profile.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoI wouldn't place too much weight on boar taint. While a real and recognized phenomenon, it isn't common or universal. I haven't ever noticed it in wild boar and have not heard of it from any other hunters. Internet forums of full of hunters arguing over if it exists at all.
- washadjeffmad 6y agoI imagine there's also some selection going on with people (primarily men) who cannot detect it or find it inoffensive and people who hunt boars and post about it on the internet. I don't hunt boar because I don't like eating it, at least.
- Zickzack 6y agoThe generation of my grandfather taught me to cut off the "Klöten" (testicles) right after his death in order to prevent boar taint.
- robgibbons 6y agoThere's a collection of stories by Skeeter Skelton (Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey) some of which discuss the hunting of wild boar in Texas. In several of the stories there are recipes and methods of cooking the meat that make it palatable.