How provincial of you Amy!

Meet the meat: an Ameglian Major Cow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niOm01dEzzI

That's great, jerry.

I enjoy that kind of whimsy. Of course, I grew up eating animals that I raised and it never bothered me.

The waiter approached.
'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?'
'Huh?' said Ford.
'Huh?' said Arthur.
'Huh?' said Trillian.
'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.

May I urge you to consider my liver?" asked the animal, "it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding myself for months.

"Meet the meat: an Ameglian Major Cow."

I think that cow was played by Shia LeBoeuf, yes?

Check out the few food stories mentioned in Roger E. Axtell's "Do's and Taboos Around the World." (He's written several travel books, so you may find more food stories that I don't know about.)

One, IIRC, was about a US executive who thought he'd seen and eaten just about everything in East Asia. Until a live, gasping fish was brought to the table and sliced to pieces before the customers' eyes. (Obviously, HE hadn't been the one to do the ordering - and he lost his appetite for quite some time after that. But...there's no polite substitute for eating what you're served, whether at a neighbor's house or in another country. Aside from health or religious reasons - maybe.)