[UA] TABOO

[David M Jacobs]

At 09:15 PM 21/04/02 -0700, Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:

>There's a restaurant here in the Springs that'll do
>you dolphin. If you prefer, they have ostrich, buffalo
>and bear (I doubt it's kodiak.)

Here in Australia, it's not too difficult to get your jaws around the 
wildlife.  Personally, I've had kangaroo, emu, buffalo and crocodile; camel 
is next on my culinary hitlist, but I'll probably have to go to Alice 
Springs to get it.  Its menu name is "Jurassic Lamb".

Still, you gotta love the kangaroo and the emu; there aren't many countries 
where you can walk into a restaurant and devour their national symbols 
(bald eagle drumsticks, anyone?).  I hear that they used to in the UK, 
until they ran out of lions and unicorns.  #%o)

>They haven't offered kimono dragon, yet, but you never know.

I doubt that they'd serve komodo dragon, to be honest.  Although 
notionally, they're edible (Australian Aboriginals used to eat goanna, a 
close but much smaller relative), komodo dragons carry bacteria that are 
rapidly and decisively harmful to humans.  You'd want to raise them in a 
tightly-controlled environment for a start, and your slaughtering process 
would have to be rigourously hygienic.  OTOH, I guess that you could just 
feed them antibiotic-laced chickens.



David M Jacobs
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