I've had alligator (in FL) and kangaroo (in NC) -- both YUM!!!
Wonder if anyone has ever eaten a SW. Buzzard when starving to death or eaten a Sea Gull. Then we have this river birds known by locals as shit pokes or flasher birds.
Crazy birds, river birds that are all black, good size a couple feet tall when standing and give the tourist's a good laugh. One from somewhere else will see them standing on rocks or pier pilings with their wings outspread and for all the world they look like old men flashing people wearing a rain coat. They do this to dry off their wings and bodies as they are diving birds and get soggy from being in the water too long.
I have been told that some things up here have never been eaten by our starving ancestors, but I have a hard time believing that as anyone that will eat a lobster unless raised on it with butter, lemon and salt, none of the things available at that time we have today had to be desperate at that time.
I do believe that were anyone of us when starving would eat our pets, and in sever cases our family's and friends. ------Boon Island off our coast had a ship wreck, no one ,anyone, knew the ship was missing and the crew survived by Kama eating the cook.
Just because we have been squeamish about strange food , all strange to us does not mean that some day we may not be forced to say grace over a rattle snake dinner.
Found a short link to a news story from the Philippines that are at war with the Muslim "freedom fighters"
That reported the Government had rounded up at least 400 dogs bound for the food markets of the non Muslims.
Times change in my time Black dog was favored there and Korea's were into white dog.
Europe is over run with the desire for horse meat, all this is for protein starved society's. Somehow the Hindu's survive on a low protein diet, with a very low life expediency of longevity. Truth be told I believe the long lived people cheat or find a reason to eat fish. My Hindu boss at work did, his excuse was this was part of his job to do quality control. I believe the pounds of fish taken home by him was to enlist his family to help with his work.
