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OK, but why is everyone making Rey out as some kind of sweet, adorable porg-cuddler who would love, protect, and pet porgs all day long? Rey grew up hungry on a death world. No way she wouldn’t be appreciating the easy food opportunity. Do you know how many portions one porg equals? I bet she could tell you before she’s even caught one.
Screw handing the Porg’s over for portions.
Just picture the awkward conversation Luke has to have with her, the first time he comes across her spit roasting two across a camp fire, while she’s making a meal of a third. He tries to explain that they have plenty of food without resorting to hunting the local wildlife. She nods politely, but as soon as Luke’s back is turned, she rolls her eyes. No way in hell is she leaving such a fantastic resource untapped.
Oh, I don’t mean handing over. I mean literally, how many portions of a meal you could get out of one little bugger. And, oh, they probably lay eggs, and the feathers look useful – Luke is wasting such an amazing natural resource here, come on.
Luke: Why is my bed suddenly so much more comfortable?
Rey: I changed the stuffing.
Luke: What did you use?
Rey: Um….
Porg bones: useful or disposable?
Bone ash mixed with composted manure makes FANTASTIC fertilizer. Eat all the fuckin’ porgs man. Porg fat for lamps and quick energy source, smoked porg meat for preservation, porg skins probably make a soft leather, porg eggs are probably quite rich. Gimme a bit of time, maybe I’ll come up with a guide to Cooking Porg.
So I did come up with a guide, but it’s a guide to field-dressing porg. The recipes will come later. Note: I actually drew these images myself, so please don’t repost. Reblog this if you want to show your friends.
h/t to @salamanderinspace: this is maybe the most on-brand thing that has ever happened to me on this site.
However. I don’t know if porgs are like furred animals, or feathered animals, but here’s a neat thing about animals with feathers: You don’t have to skin them.
If they’re like chickens, or game birds (I have experience as a commercial chicken slaughterer, and have only witnessed a game bird being processed once or twice), you can pluck them instead, and then the skin is still on, which means you get to eat all that lovely subcutaneous fat.
So I’d amend this to recommend plucking the animal, then removing the head (with chickens, you can do so by twisting and pulling, which is safer because there wouldn’t be bone shards), snipping the legs off and the tips of the wings maybe with pruners, and then eviscerating it through the vent (anus) rather than making a long cut. Just my two cents! If they’re roughly chicken-sized, you can just cut around the anus so you get all of the sphincter muscle, leaving the anus attached to the end of the intestines, and then you can go in through that opening to remove the intestines, which is a smaller and neater hole.
favomancer:
favomancer:
cracktheglasses:
glass-oceans:
cracktheglasses:
glass-oceans:
cracktheglasses:
OK, but why is everyone making Rey out as some kind of sweet, adorable porg-cuddler who would love, protect, and pet porgs all day long? Rey grew up hungry on a death world. No way she wouldn’t be appreciating the easy food opportunity. Do you know how many portions one porg equals? I bet she could tell you before she’s even caught one.
Screw handing the Porg’s over for portions.
Just picture the awkward conversation Luke has to have with her, the first time he comes across her spit roasting two across a camp fire, while she’s making a meal of a third. He tries to explain that they have plenty of food without resorting to hunting the local wildlife. She nods politely, but as soon as Luke’s back is turned, she rolls her eyes. No way in hell is she leaving such a fantastic resource untapped.
Oh, I don’t mean handing over. I mean literally, how many portions of a meal you could get out of one little bugger. And, oh, they probably lay eggs, and the feathers look useful – Luke is wasting such an amazing natural resource here, come on.
Luke: Why is my bed suddenly so much more comfortable?
Rey: I changed the stuffing.
Luke: What did you use?
Rey: Um….
Porg bones: useful or disposable?
Bone ash mixed with composted manure makes FANTASTIC fertilizer. Eat all the fuckin’ porgs man. Porg fat for lamps and quick energy source, smoked porg meat for preservation, porg skins probably make a soft leather, porg eggs are probably quite rich. Gimme a bit of time, maybe I’ll come up with a guide to Cooking Porg.
So I did come up with a guide, but it’s a guide to field-dressing porg. The recipes will come later. Note: I actually drew these images myself, so please don’t repost. Reblog this if you want to show your friends.
h/t to @salamanderinspace: this is maybe the most on-brand thing that has ever happened to me on this site.
However. I don’t know if porgs are like furred animals, or feathered animals, but here’s a neat thing about animals with feathers: You don’t have to skin them.
If they’re like chickens, or game birds (I have experience as a commercial chicken slaughterer, and have only witnessed a game bird being processed once or twice), you can pluck them instead, and then the skin is still on, which means you get to eat all that lovely subcutaneous fat.
So I’d amend this to recommend plucking the animal, then removing the head (with chickens, you can do so by twisting and pulling, which is safer because there wouldn’t be bone shards), snipping the legs off and the tips of the wings maybe with pruners, and then eviscerating it through the vent (anus) rather than making a long cut. Just my two cents! If they’re roughly chicken-sized, you can just cut around the anus so you get all of the sphincter muscle, leaving the anus attached to the end of the intestines, and then you can go in through that opening to remove the intestines, which is a smaller and neater hole.
