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by forkLding 2897 days ago
I've had pure pig fat before and made it myself off pig stomach or other parts. The first couple bites are good if you deep fry it to a deep brown colour but if you eat more than a medium size, you can easily get sick and have nausea from the oiliness, the fat is also more chewy than you expect and you can choke on it if you even have a medium piece in your mouth (I choked). If I was to eat animal fat, I would only eat a little bit and not too much. We seem to get nauseous from too much oil.
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You would likely feel different you weren't already getting plenty of fat in your diet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#Observations

> I had now been several days without tasting any thing besides meat: I did not at all dislike this new regimen; but I felt as if it would only have agreed with me with hard exercise. I have heard that patients in England, when desired to confine themselves exclusively to an animal diet, even with the hope of life before their eyes, have hardly been able to endure it. Yet the Gaucho in the Pampas, for months together, touches nothing but beef. But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalized nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the agouti. Dr. Richardson, also, has remarked, “that when people have fed for a long time solely upon lean animal food, the desire for fat becomes so insatiable, that they can consume a large quantity of unmixed and even oily fat without nausea:” this appears to me a curious physiological fact.

Don't get me wrong, I was almost instantaneously full from just eating a good-sized blob the size of my palm. Its a weird feeling, like you know you're missing all the other nutrients but you feel healthily full even though it was just a blob of fat and oil. Definitely also sick because of the normally fat-filled diet I probably had.
I vaguely recall reading that the stomach has receptors to get a rough idea of what nutrients food contains.

Aaah, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomach#Stomach_as_nutrition_s...