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Post by marmotstew on Jun 18, 2024 8:26:37 GMT -8
There are many off limit animals here in the US we can’t eat, or it’s at least frowned upon. Horses, camels, guinea pigs and pigeons.
But what about Zebras? They are so marbled and look delicious? I’d smoke one of them, maybe with some oak chips, or acacia wood? What do you all think, should we eat everything?
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Post by driftwoody on Jun 18, 2024 8:36:23 GMT -8
Monkey brains. I salivate every time I hear those two words together.
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Post by zeke on Jun 18, 2024 8:37:29 GMT -8
In Kenya's restaurant, Carnivore, I ate zebra, ostrich, & crocodile. Back a few generations, some Americans ate horses and dogs. I see no reason why we stopped eating dogs.
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Post by Coolkat on Jun 18, 2024 8:43:31 GMT -8
Isn't that in an Indiana Jones movie? I know people who eat turtle, frogs, squirrel and all sorts of strange things. I don't know about anymore but I know that 35 years ago so some people in Appalachia would eat wood chucks. In the 1700/1800s some of pioneers would eat skunk, possum, almost anything that moved. But now that most people don't have to eat to just survive these are not staple foods anymore. I suppose you're free to eat whatever you wish no matter what anyone thinks or says. Just keep in mind some things may be injurious to your health.
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Post by swiftdream on Jun 18, 2024 9:33:43 GMT -8
I heard once that some folks up in some snowy pass ate their own fellows, same with a lost soccer team. All this happened here in the new world. Europeans tend to frown on this behavior.
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Post by ErnieW on Jun 18, 2024 9:47:16 GMT -8
When I was little my dad got a can of whale meat. I tried a piece. Taste and texture like fishy steak. In the inflationary 70's beef prices shot through the roof. A lot of people, including my family, tried eating horse steaks. Tough stuff.
People do eat squab. Squab is the same to pigeons as veal is to cows.
The ones we probably should be eating are insects. High protein and more ecologically friendlier to grow than any mammal or fish.
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Post by Travis on Jun 18, 2024 10:14:59 GMT -8
What do you all think, should we eat everything? Even okra and brussels sprouts? Can we do that and still post here?
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Post by reuben on Jun 18, 2024 11:21:53 GMT -8
Marmy, if you find some wild zebra in Colorado, or anywhere in the US, to hunt, be sure to let us know.
I've had sheep brain, and it was great, albeit prepared in a fancy restaurant. I've had horse meat, and it was OK. Long ago it was popular in France, but I don't know if that's still true. Alligator is tough.
I just saw a family of wild turkey traipsing through my back yard. Maybe I need to learn to hunt. Of course, there are goo gobs of deer in the area as well. I hear that goose and duck are very fatty/oily, and it's a pain to pick the shot out of them. I need me some crawfish, but that will have to wait until October.
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Post by texasbb on Jun 18, 2024 11:44:57 GMT -8
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Post by ErnieW on Jun 18, 2024 12:37:08 GMT -8
I hear that goose and duck are very fatty/oily, and it's a pain to pick the shot out of them. My dad regularly told this story after he had been drinking a bit. The story is that his best man and he, still in their tux, after heavy night drinking at my dad's wedding reception went out at dawn and shot a Canada goose. His mom cooked it up that night and they could take only one bite. It tasted like the smell of mud flats where it had lived. So they gave it to the dog and the dog wouldn't eat it. Then they put it out for the rats and racoon. They wouldn't eat it. They had to throw out the decomposed carcass eventually.
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Post by bluefish on Jun 18, 2024 15:06:45 GMT -8
In the 90's I put a lot of miles on a K-100 BMW two-up with my wife and a cycle-mate trailer filled with backpacking, climbing and fishing gear. One trip, on a backroad coming from Seneca Rocks in WV, an empty logging truck came up on us and relentlessly chased us to up over 110. I finally lost him on some tight esses and a turn down another road. Shortly after returning home, I read an article about how the WV legislature had passed a law making it legal to eat roadkill. I felt foolish, having felt some animosity towards that trucker. He was just hungry.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jun 18, 2024 15:21:21 GMT -8
After Yellowstone pops its lid, we'll be eating everything.
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Post by reuben on Jun 18, 2024 15:31:28 GMT -8
After Yellowstone pops its lid, we'll be eating everything. Living east of both Yellowstone (gases, ash, etc.) and east of DC (nuclear) has always been a risk. Prevailing winds and all that. Fallouts of different sorts.
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Post by Travis on Jun 18, 2024 15:45:20 GMT -8
After Yellowstone pops its lid, we'll be eating everything. Not me. I'll be biting the dust, er, after I suffocate under some ash dunes 20 feet high.
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Post by reuben on Jun 18, 2024 15:50:27 GMT -8
After Yellowstone pops its lid, we'll be eating everything. Not me. I'll be biting the dust, er, after I suffocate under some ash dunes 20 feet high. You always have to be first, don't you?
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