About a year ago I published a spoof post saying that I knew a couple of wise guys who had an underground foie gras farm. It is not illegal to cultivate geese in this way in Australia but various do gooders take a very dim view and customs won’t allow the import of the fresh stuff. Chefs used to smuggle it in during a time when security was more lax.
Now somebody assures me they can source it and I’ll see some this Saturday. Keep your fingers crossed.
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I’d be really surprised if it really is “the real thing”.
Then again, if it is, then I’d love to get my hands on some as well.
Keep us in the loop Ed.
Steve
I’ve already given him the 3rd degree on this. It’s not tinned and he assures me not pasteurised. Just need to see if he can deliver.
wow, fingers crossed then!
Just to let you know that if someone hits you on the head outside your front gate and when you come to your foie gras is gone…it wasn’t me.
… and i won’t be driving the get away car. what car?
OK. I’ve got the fresh Aussie truffle sourced, now for the fresh foie gras… keep us informed!
Neil, Cin, Sounds like i need security – unless i promise you some if this stuff ever materialises
Mike, that’s the idea and we plan to bring the Fg and truffle together. let’s hope this turns out to be legit.
good luck to you if you find some illegal stuff please note geese are being grown , not cultivated or at least not the one in france , why in the hell would you want to get some illegal stuff when the end product is ready to be consumed you end up with what you get in a can from France anyway????? to save money???? that is what gives it this attraction not everyone can afford it if you can you are already half there
Alain, the point is that foie gras isn’t made in Australia and only he tinned and pasteurised stuff available. I’m interested in foie gras which is a very different and far superior experience.
I am soooo interested in it too mate, please let me know! I will order quite a bit if I can get my hands on fresh therefore wayyyy better foie gras than the canned c..p imported…
The real thing is fresh not tinned or canned or even glassed, guys….FRESH I tell you. If you get it raw feel free to also get the best piece of Beef Filet (wagyu or 1824) nice and thick, cooked rare – med rare and pan fry a 2cm thick slice of foie in light beurre noisette. place it on top of your meat, and Voila! You get Tournedos Rossini!!!
Australia will only get right up there culinary wise once it produces proper duck foie gras fed on grain and cereal rather than fig!
If you don’t agree, please keep to yourself as you obviously don’t have a clue. I was makign the thing back in1988 with rock salt and pepper and a little bit of porto sometimes! cheers!
hey, Ed, is the underground foie gras farm still here and does it really provide fresh raw foie gras????
i really interested about it.
i don’t know that it is sooo difficult or even can’t find a fresh foie gras in aus because i’m from hk where it is not difficult to taste a foie gras.
hope can hear the gd news from u~~
Ho, it was pasteurized I’m afraid and nt the same as the real stuff. Sorry.
You lot are sick! foie gras is one of the most horrible and cruel products it banned in many countries.
How you u like to be force fed till you spew!
Peter, Obviously, you’ve been reading the lefty propaganda.
could someone delete the Peter Johnson wasteof blog? it has nothing to do here.
hey guys.. great to hear the discussion about ur underground foie gras farm. if we find out where it is, there will be some really interesting repercussions that will make u wish u never even dreamed of the idea. good luck…
Darren, and guess what happens when I find out where you live? I already have your IP address so I’m getting warm.
Darren, are you threatening anyone online? are you that dumb? I think you are just a little piss weak 5 footer 35kgs but I am game to “discuss” life on the fast side with you anytime, someone has to. In the mean time go back to your play station but honestly, we all here wish your mum had faked another headache that day I reckon…
I am a great lover of food and I am no lefty. Though I just watched a clip on Youtube on Foie Gras that almost made me vomit.
So as a sensible and open minded Libertarian, I would ask that anybody who has any evidence to support the fact that the process of Foie Gras is actually humane rather than a brutal and disgusting torture of innocent animals for a quick culinary sensation-however enjoyable it may be- I would ask those people to please post something here to dispel the notion that I currently have.
The video that i speak of can be found on youtube under the title the foie gras assembly line. Granted this farm is in America, but It is my understanding that the process is very similar the world over.
Regards,
Tom.
Tom,
Like on the video you link to there are very bad producers – as for chickens, pigs or let not forget quail.
But there are also good ones.
This one is ethically one of the best:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html
Well of course there are ethical producers, but unfortunately most of them do not follow the same farming practices as this dude. There has to be mandatory ethical guidelines in the production of this “delicacy”.
Hi, I’m a foodie deeply disappointed by this stupid post!
Foie Gras is pure cruelty, that’s why it is illegal in many countries.
Enough of this blog I think…
Fernanda
it is the real thing guys I am getting another kg soon its awesome as usual and its now official we can get it regularly. I knew I would find a way guys. Semi fresh foie gras is now officially on and readily available Down Under people!
))) Simply awesome.
If you “Foie Gras” enthusiasts are unaware of the origin and the process that produces this so called delicacy, I strongly suggest you bring yourselves to watch what you are supporting. Of course you are not the ones that perform the deeply indifferent acts of slow agony through torture only to reach inevitable slaughter. You are the very supporters. If you have willingly consumed Foie Gras knowing its malicious and unhuman acts of cruelty towards an innocent creature of our home Earth, you will always carry the mark of a monster, not Frankenstein or Dracula, but a cold, heartless, unhuman devil completely void of the attributes that our society needs such as empathy and selflessness. Turn yourself around to this culinary holocaust.
We are the dominant species on Planet Earth, some use that to shy away from the sharp truth. That predators always have prey, we need to kill to survive…
Well what if we weren’t, if a larger and more powerful monster collected us like worthless luxuries, kept us in disgusting grime covered cages with no future but torture and death, torture and death. You, and all like you, all us humans helpless. You would hate the beasts that would grind the steel food tubes down your throats and cut up your chests too sure. Imagine while fatigued, bloated and lifeless the fat, monster gobbling down the product of this evil with a lick of its lips and a grin on its face.
You are that very monster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Yggc24B-A
‘YUCK’ whats your problem? how _more_ disgusting can you get ? i mean hello, force fed duck here … –’
u people who work at those undergrund factiry farms are cruel. would u like it if u were force fed and tarpped in without much space and not seeing daylight for the rest of ur life? i don’t think anyone would. i agree with adam and trust me if u were in their position u would never like it.
oh and check in for more cause trust me i will write more until u stop those factory farms. cruel son of *******
To all you anti fresh foie gras wankers,
watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeWlY0KFv8
To Shane ,I watched your video and I still believe its cruel, ducks crammed into pens and force fed, who knows if they are in pain Im certainly not going to believe the owner of the company. There is a reason why its banned in so many countries,banned by the pope and PETA Which is People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals .You make this product underground for a reason , thank god you cruel people are just a minority…….
I agree with Michaela; living mammals like her who suffer from such stupidity on a daily basis all their life IS cruel and a law should be passed to stop them from suffering any longer, using some nice humane way. Lucky enough Foie Gras has been around for over 4000 years and will continue to be for my and other more evolved gourmets’ enjoyment for many centuries to come. Now all you ugly hairy foreversingle girls, go back to watch virtual guys online! It would be cruel to let you approach any of them in real life!
Look I have been lucky enough to enjoy the delight of Foie gras on the continent, it is an absolute pleasure to partake of in moderation. I would never be so bold as to try to impose my values on the people of Gascony, it’s their cultural inheritance. I also feel the same way about those who eat horse, whale, and yes even dog as the Koreans do. If cruelty is an issue, I guess we should outlaw battery hens as well, I also hear pig farming ain’t that pretty! there goes my cheap bacon. We could all go on about many things.
To all these tree hugging vegetarians, yes I’m stereotyping here for sure, get a life!
If eating a tournedos rossini is wrong, i don’t wanna be right.
you are hardly EVOLVED when you are talking about a 4000 year old tradition. Thats just a contradiction in itself. Why is it banned if its not cruel…. I get it, you want cheap battery eggs and cheap bacon .I cant convince you of humanity, you either have it or you dont, and clearly you dont.
4000 years of evolution hasn’t made the birds run faster from the foie gras feeding monster ?
Foie gras production is cruel, 99% of the meat industry is cruel. If you wont eat foie gras because you think it is cruel then you are either a vegetarian or a hypocrite. I’m an ex-butcher and farmer btw
As a chef I do see both sides of this debate, I personally have no problems with the idea of fresh fg in oz yet also respect why people don’t like it due to how it is made.
I can only say that with respect if you don’t like the idea of it don’t eat it.
People who say it is cruel must look at all areas of food industry and question it all, cattle and lamb shipping to overseas and the conditions of which they have to deal with. Also what happens to the animals once they are in the country they were sent to.
Those issues have been raised already and will be raised again in time soon enough.
They might not be force fed and die in a harsh way but cattle and lamb on the boats are squashed together tight as sardines in a tin and bugger all air.
Look I just want to say that I understand those against it but those who are must be this strong about all other animals and creatures great and small and then they need to become Vegans!
Once you become a Vegan then we can blame you for global warming as you eat the plants that help trees reduce CO2 and we who eat meat will come after you and force feed grain down your trap and then have your liver with some bobby veal and spatchcock terrine. In the end HARDEN THE FU*K UP!!!