Blah blah blah, Vegetarians telling me how the red meat and birds that I eat were killed in an unethical manner....
seriously, how many vegetarians eat fish to fulfill their daily protein requirements? Fish that were slowly suffocated after having a hook shoved through their face...

the truth is that everything we eat must, in someway, suffer for our nourishment. even the simple act of cooking a vegan organic casserole in a wood burning communal oven affects our environment and the creatures we share it with... that being said, This dish does sound somewhat unappealing, and not nearly as metal as biting the head off a live bat

perhaps a more metal meal could consist of the charred flesh of babies, covered with a sauce of coke and whiskey... (scratch that I know it would be far more metal to feast upon the unborn, Ozzy doesn't have shit on a man who would eat a baby!)

Great article Scott, keep eating, keep writing, and keep entertaining my friend.

Oh, shut up.

Also, you can't deny how fucking metal this column is, whether you want to shove an entire bird in your mouth or not.

Pussies.

So we now know that your friend is being entertained ... how about you?

Or is this one of those cases where you're just saying "a friend" but you really mean yourself? Like, "Doctor, I have this friend with a nasty rash ..."

I'm confused.

PS - I will also pass on the eating of an entire bird, bones and all. Put it in nugget form and I may give it a shot.

Sorry, i'll just fall into place with the rest of the sheep.

Great Article Scott. That's hard core metal. woo. yay.

I will someday try one of these tasty sounding little birds. I like the taste of my own blod so I wonder what it would taste like with the rest of oh so metal dish?

Now, if you were gouging out the eyes of say, a bear, and then force feeding it, and drowning it in booze, I might agree that it's metal. But a little bird? Disturbed little children torture birds. What's metal about that?

Holy shit. Nothing more do I want to do is to try that now.

You son of a bitch. Now there is one more food I must try before I die. I hate being a cook sometime.

Ortolans sound completely vile. There's nothing black metal about torturing and then eating small birds. I'm ashamed that such a barbaric and ignorant practice would be associated with such a fine genre of music.

*cough*Ozzy*cough*

Fully! The whole process!??? Bored rich people? Too much intoxicants?? Poke the eyes out?!!?

Cruelty begets cruelty. Eat up.

Look at you 2 fellows names! It's just right you woudn't agree! I like the article but I'm still backing the reject. Maybe cos I'm a Kiwi & all you sheep can get fucked.

You got a point there, there are finer things to be associated with black metal...like church burning and hate crimes.

Whatever, this whole article is getting so much backlash for nothing. Reading it, it's clearly quite tongue in cheek and whoever has followed Scott Ian's carreer through the years will know that the man has quite a sense of humor, even in situations where that might seem unappropriate to some, and probably that sense of humor made him not only one of the most likeable people in metal, but also allowed him to soldier on through cases of extreme bad luck. Still I might agree with the criticism on this article if we were talking about a dish that anyone could order in most french restaurants, but we are talking about something that has been BANNED. Someone earlier mentioned the case of the equally barbaric Fois Gras which, even if it doesn't require a hedonistic ritual in order to eat it, still revolves around a similar concept. And this is just one example, in pretty much any culture there is one or more meals that have entered local tradition and require the brutalization of the animal and no one knows or cares about it.
On a final note, regardind defenseless little animals being killed for the pleasure of intoxicated rich scumballs...well this in a way happens everyday and for the well being of everyone here, be it mental or health related.
A few examples: Pigeons...I'm sure you all noticed how brutal can often be the means to drive them off leaving many injured beyond repair or killed, but still since that prevents that our cars or other outdoor possessions become public toilets for these fuckers we don't care. Personally I remember only one demonstration against those things and it was from store owners sick of finding rotting bird corpses in front of their workplace (so humane right?).
And what about insects? Sure some carry diseases that are potentially lethal, like mosquitoes or cockroaches, but we use pesticides to kill even the ones that are simply annoying or even some we don't even notice but that get caught in the crossfire (not to mention the ones that ruin plants,fruits and vegetables). Now tell me, did anyone see a protest against the indiscriminate massacre of insects as it happens with baby seals or other cute little animals? And last time I checked, death by poison ain't pretty.