[chat] Re: [SLUG] Re: Christmas - That Special Time !

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="David Fitch">

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:03:41AM +1100, Stuart Cooper wrote:
> 
> > Prohibitive food laws prevent Australians from enjoying more of their
> > local fauna.  A few very fancy and expensive restaurants serve kangaroo
> > meat ("it tastes like chicken" say most people; and the movie "The
> > Matrix") but because of our laws most of it has to be used for non-human
> > purposes. Kangaroos are not as far as I know farmed for their meat but
> > have to be culled at various farms where they are a nuisance and eat the
> > crops.
> 
> ah heading way off topic here

SLUG-CHAT!

> but it's not Australia-wide laws, they
> differ in each state and it's mainly just NSW that's funny about roo meat.
> In SA it's in all supermarkets and most restaurants, since moving back
> here from Sydney I've eaten more roo steaks than beef (love roo meat).

You're certainly able to eat it in restaurants here. I think it's just a
public relations thing that keeps it out of the supermarkets. I can't count
the places I've eaten it at though - so YUM!

> PS. tastes like strong flavoured (gamey) beef, nothing like chicken!

Yeah, people just wish they were Hannibal. ;)

- Jeff

-- 
   "The ability to procrastinate is what separates us from the machines."   
                     - Chris Gregory, Desktop Magazine