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10 Aug 01 - 07:40 AM (#524978) Subject: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,MC Fat The other week at the Moor and Coast tent in Warwick Folk Festival we started talking about cooking with endagered species. The following dishes were suggested:-Dolphin Dopiaza, Tarka Tikka Massala (just like Tikka but a little otter !!) ,Real Turtle Soup, Sweet and Sour Duck Billed Platypus, Kentucky Fried Emu Any others ? |
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10 Aug 01 - 07:42 AM (#524980) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Firecat This is going to leave a nasty taste in someone's mouth! |
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10 Aug 01 - 08:23 AM (#524994) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: gnu A week or so ago, there was a big hullabaloo in the local paper over Sandpiper Soup being served at the Sandpiper festival. The festival raises awareness and money for the declining sandpipers, piping plovers being the worst off. Wellsirrrree ! The nasty letters to the editor were quelled when the it was revealed that the Sandpiper Soup did not contain sandpipers ! Amongst a raft of other revellations from the event's organizers : Irish Stew contains no Irishmen, etc, etc, etc |
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10 Aug 01 - 08:28 AM (#524996) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: kendall A guy was arrested for shooting a bald eagle. Judge asked "Why did you shoot that eagle?" man says "I was hungry, so, I ate it." judge says "Well I must fine you at least the minimum because it is endangered, but, at least you did eat it so it didn't go to waste, but, tell me, what did it taste like?" "Something between a California Condor, and a Spotted owl." |
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10 Aug 01 - 08:31 AM (#524997) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: MMario Emu is being raised commercially for their meat. |
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10 Aug 01 - 08:42 AM (#525001) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Naemanson And on the other side of the coin I heard on the radio today that there is a scholar in India who revealed that historical documents show that Hindus used to eat beef. They made the cow a sacred animal around the Fifth Century AD. The scholar is now facing death threats and possible jail time! |
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10 Aug 01 - 09:17 AM (#525016) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,Kjell Grilled Gorilla with blue whale sauce, followed by painted terrapin and tiger trifle |
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10 Aug 01 - 10:25 AM (#525044) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Hollowfox Ah yes, like that famous slogan,"Save the Whales!...and for every three whales you save, we'll send you a baby harp seal pelt." |
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10 Aug 01 - 10:55 AM (#525067) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,MC Fat Another good slogan was 'Club together for Greenpeace@ |
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10 Aug 01 - 11:11 AM (#525076) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Peg You have all seen those bumper stickers that say "I (heart symbol) my Golden retriever." (or whatever) This then led to bumper stickers which said "I (spade symbol) my cat." A bit later, the inevitable: "I (club symbol) baby seals." Sick, but ya gotta admire the creativity (I think). I am not as averse to someone hunting and eating an animal (sadly in parts of Africa many endangered animals are being killed and EATEN because there is no other food; this includes elephants) as I am to those who wish to have the pelt or head as a trophy, or those Yuppies who pay big bucks to be taken on some cushy, guide-led "expedition" into the jungle (which said Yuppie would not survive one hour in if left there alone, hmm, there's a thought) so he can shoot some defenseless creature (which has been located and tracked by the guide) and mount its head on his office wall... What a self-serving, clueless, pretentious thing to do. I do support the fishing bans on endangered fish (and lobsters in teh Northeast) and dwindling populations, but I do think before the government imposes such bans on those who depend on these fish for their livelihood, they should look into compensating the fishermen in some way...a complex issue to say the least and the long-range problem has more to do with shifting ways of life...look at Nova Scotia; no more mining or fishing to speak of (at least, not like the old days); they shifted to tourism and are doing very well... peg
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10 Aug 01 - 11:26 AM (#525084) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Bill D why I can't get into this game....click |
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10 Aug 01 - 11:34 AM (#525088) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Bill D and here is Martha, the last one I have also seen the Smithsonian's Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in it's little glass case. It was not good to eat, it simply had a narrow range and couldn't co-exist with man and it's habitat was reduced until breeding was a problem. |
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10 Aug 01 - 11:34 AM (#525089) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Noah never should have fed the unicorns to the lions! RtS |
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10 Aug 01 - 12:49 PM (#525132) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Bill D "Tis the Arabian bird, alone, Lives chaste, because there is but one. But had kind nature made them two, They would like doves and sparrows do." |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:00 PM (#525140) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: katlaughing Thank you, Bill, for the links and poem. Remember The Freshman with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick? Too much of a real possiblity in my book. |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:00 PM (#525141) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: kendall Peg, I'm with you 99%, but, there is something you may not know. When I was a Maine Coastal Warden back in the 60's, the annual catch of lobsters was 20 million pounds. Last year it was over 40 million pounds. It's hard to understand why they are pushing the panic button on lobsters. Now, the matter of overfishing of certain other species is another thing to be concerned about. Cod is the species that drew the Europeans to this part of the world in the first place, and, with the stocks of Cod at an alarming low, it has given the lobstaers a break, because Cod are lobster predators. |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:10 PM (#525149) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Grab All cooked over genuine rainforest charcoal, of course. I'd suggest Kentucky Fried Children, but it's plain that we're not going to run out of children in the near future, so they're not endangered. Not as a group anyway - but individually... ;-) Woodpecker Cider, squeezed from real woodpeckers. Actually, _any_ farm animal in Britain is living on the edge ATM... Graham. |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:11 PM (#525150) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,djh Mc Fat , I think you missed the boat on the platypus dish. Aren't they recently extinct? Anyone know? |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:13 PM (#525151) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST What will we say things taste like if we ever lose the chicken? |
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10 Aug 01 - 01:16 PM (#525155) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: katlaughing Turnips. |
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10 Aug 01 - 02:00 PM (#525191) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Micca How about Individual Fruit bat pies? or Gratin dolphinois? |
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10 Aug 01 - 02:43 PM (#525219) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: gnu GUEST, djh... nope. Saw a show on them just the other night. But there ain't many left. |
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10 Aug 01 - 03:57 PM (#525270) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: kendall I wonder why? Man has not found a way to exploit them, so, there should be plenty of them. |
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10 Aug 01 - 03:59 PM (#525273) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Mrrzy Going to a zoo with my anthropologist sister, through the endangered animal wing, and at most cages she could say "I ate that when I was in Africa..." - really upset some of the Moms with little kids! |
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10 Aug 01 - 04:03 PM (#525277) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Peg Kendall I did not know that about the lobsters; I would have thought there were LESS of them if a ban was enacted. Is it that there are more effective methods for catching them now and so more of them get caught hence the ban? ?
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10 Aug 01 - 04:29 PM (#525283) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,Nick Speaking of the Seal hunt, one of my pet subjects 1) The Canadian government is going to discontinue subsidies for the seal hunt. 2)Some people blame the seals for the low stocks of cod 3) The $ amount generated by the Canadian Atlantic Seal hut is aproximately the income generated for one year by two Mc Donalds outlets. 4) Harp seals are by no means endangered 5) Protester rent helicopters for $1,000s a day while the Hunters who are desperatly trying to find some way to earn some income, head to the ice in rusty old trawlers. 6) There are some who conjecture that the introduction of Viagra to the asian markets explains the huge drop by the Chinese in their demand for seal penis, a traditional aphrodesiac in Chinese Herbal medicine. (A friend of mine conjectures Vigra is just eaiser to swallow!) 7) The people who are seal hunting are not doing it because they think it is fun or because they are cruel. Just a few seal harvest factoids. |
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10 Aug 01 - 04:30 PM (#525284) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: MMario Peg - are you talking about the upper size limit? |
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10 Aug 01 - 08:35 PM (#525404) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: brid widder Jim the Dolphin dupiaza must be Tuna freindly Dolphin...then there's Panda pasanda...osprey omlette, braised bittern...sadly the Dodo is off |
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10 Aug 01 - 09:03 PM (#525410) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: kendall It's true that there are more traps being fished, and, as has always been the case, about 90% of the lobsters that have just reached legal size since their last shedding are caught each year, there is little room for them to be much more plentiful. For years the fishermen blamed the decline in lobster stocks on seals, but, seals are marine mammals, and protected, so, that theory went down the tubes. Now they blame the drop in cod on seals because they refuse to believe (or admit) that it is over fishing by humans that have killed the cod fishery. It's as that old Indian said "When the last tree has been cut down, when the last river is polluted, when the last fish has been caughtr, only then will you realize that you can not eat money." |
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11 Aug 01 - 09:57 AM (#525614) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Liz the Squeak Individual fruit bat pies. Tandoori mixed Krill Beef in bear With Raspberry nipple ice-cream for pudding? LTS |
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13 Aug 01 - 07:52 AM (#526594) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST,MC Fat Forgot about the Panda Pasandra and the Osprey Omlette |
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13 Aug 01 - 08:02 AM (#526597) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Murray MacLeod I can still remember the shock I experienced the first time I ate in a Florida restaurant and saw fried dolphin on the menu. Quite some time later someone explained to me that the dolphin (edible) was a true fish and that the charming friendly mammals which we all adore are incorrectly called dolphins and should more correctly be called porpoises. Murray |
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13 Aug 01 - 11:31 AM (#526722) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST hens teeth risotto |
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13 Aug 01 - 11:23 PM (#527375) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: RangerSteve Lipton's Instant Cup O' Koala Soup. Black-footed Ferret on a stick. Whale flavored Jello, in one of those circular molds with baby sea turtles suspended in it in place of marshmallows. |
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14 Aug 01 - 04:04 AM (#527475) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: GUEST rocking horse nest soup |
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14 Aug 01 - 08:45 AM (#527560) Subject: RE: BS: Endangered Species Menu From: Grab RS, that reminds me of the joke which finishes on the punchline, "the koala tea of Mersey is not strained..." Graham. |