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grabman's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Racism
breadbummer's review against another edition
4.5
My main critiques come from aspects that I'm not really sure can be helped. For one, a lot of jokes/silly comparisons/what have you are repeated multiple times throughout the book, which made me a bit tired of the "(whoever) wouldn't do (a specific thing) if they had (a specific weapon) to their head" (for now). Along with that, maybe it's just because I'm a midwesterner, but I was kind of appalled at how short the trip to the Midwest was. I mean, c'mon, not counting the chapter on Chicago, just Ohio and Wisconsin...? A huge swath of the country is being missed out on. But at the same time, I get it—Loftus has already been on the road for weeks eating variations of the same grotes ue food just about every day and is also
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, and Animal death
Moderate: Excrement, Sexual content, Stalking, Body shaming, and Murder
Minor: Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment, Cannibalism, Fatphobia, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Vomit, and Alcohol
ivorymusic82's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Vomit, Cursing, Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Sexual content
Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Animal cruelty, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Police brutality and Violence
corriespondent's review
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Racism
Minor: Genocide, Misogyny, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Vomit
sarahyjackson's review
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Eating disorder, Vomit, Excrement, and Pandemic/Epidemic
slimshaedy92's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Sexual content and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Stalking, and Sexual harassment
taylormoore's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Racism, Drug abuse, and Vomit
joe_del's review
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing
Minor: Police brutality, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Racism, Medical trauma, Genocide, Medical content, and Toxic relationship
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Excrement, Grief, and Cancer
jonna_doucette's review
1.5
For its faults, of which there are many (see: Loftus’s a-hole choice to flout lock-down and travel/research this book during the height of the pandemic), this book had the makings of something better that was lost along the roadside of Loftus’s journey. A travelogue? Yeah. A culinary history? Maybe... if you squint. Capitalist critique? Certainly not. Unfortunately, for the small amount of ink Loftus spares for actually interesting, prescient topics, like industrial safety standards for slaughter houses, meatpackers, and the animals we farm for food, or ethnocentrism within competitive eating, she wastes twice as many pages playing at being an insecure girl next door from Bah-ston and hoping we’ll accept her anyways, like so many of the humble, working-class delicacies she’s sampled across our great country.
For anyone interested in actual meat-centered food history/commentary, I suggest the following:
Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat
The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
Salted and Cured: Savoring the Culture, Heritage, and Flavor of America's Preserved Meats
Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
Graphic: Cursing and Excrement
Moderate: Eating disorder and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, and Animal death