the quest begins

well, ive started the blog smack bang in the middle of my revision, typical of me to find a new procrastination tool. so be it.

my friends, tom warnett and david bebb, decided on the 1st of january of 2007 to undertake a bizarre and fruitful journey through the world of meat. their plan was to eat 52 animals in 52 weeks, as a way to broaden their consumption horizons. i caught wind of this at the beginning of april, 13 weeks into the challenge, and since then have been competing alongside them, racking up a quarry of eleven animals in the now 14 weeks that have passed.

since then i have decided to start my own blog about this challenge, with the aim to eat 52 animals in the 52 weeks from my first beast, which is april 11th 2007, to my (hopefully) 52nd beast no later than april 10th 2008, documenting my own personal quest photographically, meaning i have to re-eat all my previous animals again, yum! i have also attempted to draw up some rough rules to follow:

1. each animal will be counted only once, and by it's name.
   
2. i must eat two full mouthfuls of the animal for it to count as a strike.
   
3. consumed animals can only be counted if a picture of said animal, in preparatory stage and/or completed meal, is presented here.
4. a maximum of four animals can be counted in any one meal, which are chosen at my discretion. (think seafood platters.)
5. the seafood category is so vast it shall breakdown thus (wherever applicable) leaving a total of eight sea creatures to be possibly eaten (except if they are awesome or interesting as stated in rule 6):
• freshwater
• oily fish
  
• white fish
  
• shellfish
• mollusca
• crustacea
  
• saltwater
• oily fish
• white fish
• shellfish
• mollusca
• crustacea
  
6. any seafood that does not fall into the above categories does not count unless it is an awesome or interesting seafood strike, which will count regardless of category - such as shark, piranha, giant squid, puffer fish etc..

let the feasting begin!