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If you're in the US, meat selection tends toward the conservative. People have literally been fired for serving kangaroo: https://time.com/5430454/nebraska-scho
by microtherion 3y ago
If you're in the US, meat selection tends toward the conservative. People have literally been fired for serving kangaroo: https://time.com/5430454/nebraska-school-cook-fired-kangaroo-meat/ https://time.com/5430454/nebraska-school-cook-fired-kangaroo...
But in some European countries, more bits of the animal are being eaten (beef tongue, e.g.), and more animals are being eaten (e.g. horses). In Switzerland, kangaroo and ostrich became somewhat popular when at the height of the Mad Cow Disease epidemic, people were reluctant to eat beef.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoAnd that’s a shame, I really feel like we need more exotic meats in the US. Maybe we can bring back the “lake cows” and their “lake cow bacon”. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-us-almost-became-a-nation-of-hippo-ranchers-180982244/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-us-almost-bec...
- cdot2 3y agoYou can definitely get beef tongue in the US.
- microtherion 3y agoYes, I did not mean to imply that you can't. But in my informal surveys of Americans, "Do you eat beef tongue?" is an interesting shibboleth to determine culture of origin of the respondent. I think I've yet to meet somebody with a Christian Anglo-Saxon background who said they did. People with Hispanic, Jewish, Eastern European, and many continental Western European backgrounds often do. Of course beef tongue is also found in Chinese cuisine.