Meats & Sweets

[Chad]

Raisins, dates, nutmeg, cinnamon, etc. -- they've all been combined with meat at one point or another. Taste treat or abomination and an affront to all that is good and holy?

Chad

[Mister_Cutlets]

Chad,

I won't go so far as to call it an abomination, for sweets and meats don't mix. If you have to add raisins, plums, glazes, and the like, you're probably not a true meat-head. Sweetness if it comes at all should come from within -- via a brown-sugar cure, or the taste of caramalized vegetables cooked down in fat. When I see a date or raisin on the meat menu, I turn toward the exit. Life's too short to mask and emasculate good meat.

yours,

Mr. Cutlets