Italy's RAI TV suspends cooking show host for discussing one of his favorite "delicacies"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoD7E3hGwu0

Italian TV chef: Cats are a "delicacy"

By Thomas Rogers

The strangest food news story of the day comes from Italy, where state-run RAI TV has suspended Beppe Bigazzi, a 77-year-old Italian cooking show host, for waxing poetically about a supposed Tuscan delicacy: cat stew. The footage has made its way onto YouTube, and even if you don’t speak Italian, the horrified reaction of the show’s host pretty much says everything you need to know about what’s happening. According to the AP’s translation, Bigazzi began his segment by saying, "Who’s not fat, kills the cat" before going on about how "Cat, soaked for three days in the running water of a stream ... comes out with its meat white," before assuring viewers, "I have eaten it many times -- ... it is a delicacy."

http://www.salon.com/food/feature/2010/02/26/cat_cooking_beppe_bigazzi/index.html

[rcrush]

1. mmmmmm kittehs...drooool.

[Kali]

2. obligatory "tastes like___" reply

veal?
chicken?
gator?

[rcrush]

3. Its Puppies

The correct answer is Puppies.

[meow2u3]

12. Kitty parmigiana....YUM!

:sarcasm:

[KamaAina]

4. Chef Tabby replies:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. catfish - I would understand but cat ?!

:wtf:

[rurallib]

6. sure it wasn't a mistranslation? Sure he didn't mean pussy?

[jmowreader]

7. I'm certain he did eat it many times

I'm also certain that in all of the many times he ate it, Benito Mussolini was still the premier of Italy.

[Quantess]

8. Oh my! This makes me appreciate spaying and neutering.

I can only imagine that back in the old days when spaying and neutering wasn't so widespread, hungry villagers rounded up feral cats for meat.
:O

[quakerboy]

9. When people get hungry

things get eaten.

[Petrushka]

10. During WWII, when meat was rationed, neighbors were warning other neighbors . . .

. . . to not buy any more skinned rabbits without paws because it was "porch rabbit" being sold.
Strange! I don't remember seeing any stray or pet cats in my childhood neighborhood.

[Bucky]

11. Duh, why do you think they call it "catsup"?