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[hobglobin]

inthelab

you have
good night darling the fly meal on two legs

[swanny]

on the fly

[casandra]

on the run

hi guys...hey swanny..so how are the preparations coming along?

[swanny]

dead or alive

Hi casandra, what preparations would they be? The conference? I was waiting for everyone to send their final menu requests... I can offer the complete Australian coat of arms (Kangaroo steaks are very low in cholesterol and fat, and one emu drumstick will feed a small to medium sized village for a week; the eggs will make approximately 50 standard omelettes, and the shell can be used for a game of football afterwards), plus a range of croc burgers and snakes on a stick, served on a bed of bush tomatoes and macadamia nuts.

Are there other countries that eat their national animals? I know the Americans can't any more as the bald eagle is protected, and the British ones either never existed (unicorn) or haven't been on the island for millennia (lion), but who else do we have? I guess the French eat chicken and the Spanish eat beef, but do the Russians eat bear, or the Chinese panda? Do South Africans eat springbok or the Argentinians puma (not entirely out of the question, given their love for meat... Argentine barbeque is spectacular!!)?

[Ameya P]

wanted

Morning all...
lots of work and a midday Indian wedding to attend. Who's coming?

I really liked this bit swanny!!!

swanny, on 25 April 2012 - 09:17 PM, said:

Are there other countries that eat their national animals? I know the Americans can't any more as the bald eagle is protected, and the British ones either never existed (unicorn) or haven't been on the island for millennia (lion), but who else do we have? r!!)?

[vetticus3]

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride

Wait, you mean there are no native English lions?  Not even in the Scottish highlands?

[LostintheLab]

walk like John Wayne

I haven't seen any..certainly not up in the Highlands. As to unicorns- you never know .
The only lions I've seen recently have been either on flags and Sigils (watching too much Game of Thrones) or wire ones in the hospital garden and I don't think they'd be too tasty

[vetticus3]

move like Mick Jagger

Game of Thrones... Joffrey!!!  Arrggghhhhh!!!

[LostintheLab]

ride like the wind

I know! grrrrrrrrrrrr.... 'shakes fist in Westeros's direction'

[toejam]

colours of the wind

hey people. I don't know about Argentinians eating puma, probably they do. As Woody Allen once said "Nature is the biggest menu" or something like that I can't remember the exact quote right now.

Back home we do eat iguana, grasshoppers, some other kinds of insects, ant larvae (escamoles!), agave worm (not like in the stereotypical tequila worm, but actually grilled), jumiles (stinky bugs), and tapir, just to mention a few I can remember now. Turtle eggs are forbidden by law now, so sorry guys...

hmm, getting hungry now

[vetticus3]

true colours

interesting fact, i just realized that i'm taking a few days of next week.  i thought it wasn't for another 6 weeks...
just had lunch: PANCAKES!!

[toejam]

cindy lauper

good news v! where you going to this time?

[hobglobin]

cincinnati kid

hi people

[casandra]

January's Child

hey guys...so we're back to food again (our most favourite topic)...though we are now used to Qallunaat ("White people") diet, I think there was a time when people would hunt seals, walruses, beluga whales, polar bears...and all kinds of birds ...probably the canadian geese as well as the snowy owl...yumyum...

[hobglobin]

February's Brat

hi Mlle C...I can only add cockchafer soup, for the poor people only of course