BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?

Subject: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 12:52 PM

Maybe I've got too much time on my hands. But this morning I was wondering if dinosaurs were good to eat - and what they tasted like. It would have made hunting a lot easier. You kill one and you'd have meat for ages. Two or three a year and you were set.

But how do you cook dinosaur meat? The closest thing I've had is gator tail. Prepaired with garlic and lemons tied up inside and cooked on a rotisserie. Of course that would make any meat taste better. And you also have to wonder - what wine do you serve with dinosaur? Red or white? Is there light and dark meat on the same animal?

And sidedishs - beans, potato salad - or a green salad and baked potato? It boggles the mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:02 PM

When 'dining on dinosaur' the vegetables would have to come from plants that were around at the same time as dinosaurs. Anyone know what they would be? Fiddle-head ferns maybe? You could make a fair-sized omelette from a dinosaur egg.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:03 PM

Well, of course they were good to eat! Set your mind at rest on that.

Got any other burning questions?

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: bobad
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:05 PM

I heard they tasted like chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:06 PM

'Dinosaurs' came in all sizes...from bite-sized up to "Honey, we need another freezer".

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: GUEST,Uncle Rumpo
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:06 PM

"You kill one and you'd have meat for ages. Two or three a year and you were set.

well, yes, but only if you could buy a big enough Fridge in those days.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:17 PM

BBQ on the grill is the best. Watch for the bones however, drop one of them on your foot and you could be gimping around for a bit

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:25 PM

Well, Fred was a big fan of the ribs so there's prima facie (ribs) right there. Yabba dabba doooooooooooo!

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:35 PM

Tsk... there WERE small ones! Get yourself a Sinosauropteryx

"Sinosauropteryx was a small bipedal theropod, noted for its short arms, large first finger (thumb), and long tail. It is among the smallest known non-avian theropods, with the holotype specimen measuring only 68 cm (27 in) in length, including the tail.[2] This individual was relatively young.[3] The longest known specimen reaches up to 1.07 m (3.5 ft) in length, with an estimated weight of 0.55 kg (1.2 lb)."

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:39 PM

A half a kilo? Take a lot of them Sinosauropteryxes
to make a stew. Better have lots of carrots, spuds and turnip on hand.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:40 PM

Talk to Kendall, I bet he has a good recipe for New England Dinosaur pot roast.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 01:41 PM

Rumor is that when the occasional mastodon appears out of the melting ice, Alaskans make good use of the meat.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:00 PM

ICK! Talk about freezer burn!

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:01 PM

Dan... you know... take a book with you.

SINS... only if it's in a Ziplock freezer bag.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:25 PM

The current theory is that Dinos were most closely related to birds is it not? After that I guess, as in mammals and birds, their taste would depend on their forage. I would imagine that the scavengers and predators would be too gamy to eat the big plant eaters would taste like ostrich, the small ones like chicken.

'Dinosaurs' came in all sizes...from bite-sized up to "Honey, we need another freezer"

Wouldn't there also be? "We'd better eat this before it spoils. Lets invite Pittsburgh over for a cookout.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:29 PM

Dinosaurs - edible or not?

To each other, certainly. The queston smacks (pun intended) too much of Creationism. *g*

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:41 PM

Only if Adam and Eve had them on the menu.

Do you think they ate Abel's sheep?

Wouldn't it have been cool if Cain had sacrificed a T-Rex instead of killing his Bro?

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 02:45 PM

sacrificing a T-Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:11 PM

Wouldn't Adam annd Eve have eaten them with apple sauce? Followed by apple crumble?

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:12 PM

If I remember, dinosaur tastes like fishy chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:19 PM

"Edibile" means that eating it probably won't kill you. It says nothing about whether or not it tastes good.

Dead vulture and buzzard are edible, but you might not like them as a regular food.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:36 PM

Buzzard tastes a lot like bald eagle.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:43 PM

Really? I found it to be more like California condor.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:47 PM

Yes, with a little Spotted Owl in the overtones.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 03:49 PM

With an undertone of Snowy Egret...

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 04:00 PM

Great minds! Thinking alike!

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Gurney
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:14 PM

As Mick Dundee said, "You can live on it, but it tastes like shit."

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:30 PM

I once saw a Newf buddy of mine eating dogwood berries. I didn't believe it and voiced same... he chucked a bunch in his mouth, chewed and swallowed and then opened his mouth to show me had actually eaten them. So I tried it... and spat and spat and SPAT!!! He grinned and said, "That'll separate the men from the boys." I am glad there weren't any dinosaurs around.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: mayomick
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 07:45 PM

Not if he sees you first

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 08:14 PM

Angiosperms didn't take over until the dinosaurs were extinct. So the plant-eating dinosaurs would have tasted of pine resin, and the carnivorous ones might have concentrated that flavour even more. Pine nut seasoning would get a bit boring by the time you finished eating an apatosaur.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 08:43 PM

To paraphrase Walt Kelly:

When you starve with a T-Rex, the T-Rex starves last.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 10:08 PM

Jello covered T-Rex ... Sins would make that, with fruit

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 Jul 11 - 11:27 PM

sacrificing a T-Rex

C'mon Bill D. T-Rex din't have no tusks. That's a plain ol' prepostosaurus.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 09:55 AM

Maybe Dinosaurs became extinct because Cain sacrificed them all. Now that the idea has been suggested, it is only a matter of time before we see a depiction of that process in Northern Kentucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 10:34 AM

Becca
, ask Edith Piaf
" No, No egrets
No I will have no Egrets"

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 01:06 PM

Of course the Cherrygarciasaurus was delicious.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 01:48 PM

I prefer my steakosaurus without BBQ saurus.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 01:50 PM

BBQ saurus

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Bobert
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 05:20 PM

Ask T-Rex... He knows and probably be more than happy to share a few recipes with you...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 05:20 PM

The more significant thing might have been how edible Dinosaurs found humans, if we'd been around then.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 05:31 PM

By following their trails?

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 07:13 PM

I saw a brontosaurus with a thesaurus,
Fie, man, fie!
I saw a brontosaurus with a thesaurus,
Who's the fool now?
I saw a brontosaurus with a thesaurus,
Searching for the ultimate chorus!
Thou hath well drunken and who's the fool now?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Gurney
Date: 30 Jul 11 - 07:16 PM

I can't syncopate that, Charlie.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 05:42 AM

When finished with a Dino, don't forget to collect the bones and sell them to your local natural history museum. The fortune you can make with that will well compensate you for the yucky taste!

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 11:45 AM

"C'mon Bill D. T-Rex din't have no tusks. That's a plain ol' prepostosaurus.

Ha! The ones we've found so far didn't... next you'll be telling me thay had no jet-packs either!

(the point was, with or without tusks, 'sacrificing' may not be a routine task.)

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: mayomick
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 12:27 PM

Saw a steak eat a man
fie man fie
Saw a steak eat a man
whose the fool now
saw a steak eat a man
Genus herbivorean
Fried him in a frying pan
whose the fool now

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 12:39 PM

I saw a bean curd eat a vegan.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: mayomick
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 01:00 PM

and for dessert a new-age pagan

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 01:17 PM

As dinosaurs are either the descendants or the forebears of birds it seems they would taste like chicken, perhaps with a bit of pork-like overtone thrown in.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 01:42 PM

mmm porkasaurus mmmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 02:48 PM

I saw a Pteradactyle with a smile,
Fie, man, fie!
I saw a Pteradactyle with a smile,
Who's the fool now?
I saw a Pteradactyle with a smile,
Say: "After a while crocodile!"
Thou hath well drunken and who's the fool now?

I'd like my Pteradactyle Southern Fried and extra crunchy, if you please.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 02:58 PM

KGP

Kentucky Grilled Pterosaur

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 03:39 PM

Does this offer a suggestion about what to do with Tea Potty members after the collapse of civilisation in the USA?

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 11 - 08:16 PM

Richard-

I draw the line at entrees featuring anything remotely human, which includes "Tea Potty" members. Eating that high (or low) on the food chain runs the risk of ingesting major environmental contaminants.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 06:58 AM

Well Fred Flinstone used to dine on brontasaurus steaks and they looked pretty good to be although they were inclined to tip his car because of the size.

Subject: RE: BS: Dinosaurs - edible or not?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 08:49 AM

Better the brontosaurus than T-rex, and the young ones at that. I bet the full grown ones were as tough as old sea boots.

Charley Noble