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Personally I think the Canadian Geese around Oracle HQ in Redwood City could use a good thinning. - Why? You don't like animals chilling out in a protected are
by suyash 12y ago
Personally I think the Canadian Geese around Oracle HQ in Redwood City could use a good thinning.
- Why? You don't like animals chilling out in a protected area.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoNo, because they cause economic harm. Both in damage to aircraft coming into and out of San Mateo airport, damage to cars which are involved in goose related accidents, damage to property in the form of plant destruction and defecation. Without natural predators they have become a nuisance.
- sjwright 12y agoMuch like kangaroos in rural Australia. With fewer predators and enormous amounts of native bushland cleared for farming, they have multiplied to the point that they've become a pest. Fortunately, the meat is pretty tasty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_meat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_meat
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI tried kangaroo in Switzerland the last time I visited EPFL; the cafeterias there serve all sorts of weird stuff, like horse... I didn't like it, it tasted a lot like rabbit to me, and sourness in a meat is just weird to me.
- eshvk 12y ago> I didn't like it, it tasted a lot like rabbit to me, and sourness in a meat is just weird to me. Odd. I have had both Rabbit and Kangaroo. Both were lean flavorful, the Kangaroo more close to a lean beef than anything. But I wouldn't associate "sour" with both meats. Could you have sampled a bad batch?
- sjwright 12y agoI too wouldn't use the word sour, though I will say kangaroo is definitely gamey compared to beef, and somewhat of an acquired taste. It's not a meat I would choose to eat without accompaniments. (Whereas a tender sous vide steak of beef can be utterly scrumptious on its own, even unseasoned.)
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI'm not used to rabbit or roo, and how I characterize the taste is probably not very sophisticated. I thought it felt sour, but there were lots of other tastes going on that I wasn't able to process very well, and...I'm very familiar with east, south, southeast asian food...Europe is just weird to me in comparison.
- darklajid 12y agoAll sorts of weird stuff, like horse: If you can get your hands on that sort of things, I really recommend trying - a steak from a horse - sausages, barbecued (hey, I'm German. Let's play the stereotype card) => Bratwurst - as pointed out elsewhere in this thread: Sauerbraten (although that's somewhat 'special'. I'd say everyone eating meat should try the first two, the last one is really weird and a dish that is both savory and sweet)
- carlob 12y agoLike sibling poster I encourage you to try horse. If you ever end up in Parma (Italy) or surroundings try pesto di cavallo, which raw minced horse meat, not unlike a steak tartare.
- frozenport 12y agoI also didn't like Kangaroo, it tasted like dry. Perhaps the stuff we get in the USA is fresh.
- prawn 12y agoMight've been cooked too long. Best quickly seared and then rested.
- mpweiher 12y agoYou mean San Carlos airport? (ICAO identifier "KSQL", I kid you not)
- ChuckMcM 12y agoYes, my mistake. Has the Hiller Air museum there, which is awesome btw.
- bdamm 12y agoApparently the SQL airport had its code decades prior to Oracle moving in next door. Co-incidence? All I know is the Oracle buildings are just barely outside the flight path, and every time I land on Rwy 12 I feel like I have to maneuver around them. We're supposed to avoid flying directly overhead, but they're directly where the base leg is supposed to be!
- mpweiher 12y agoYeah, the instructions are a bit tricky, especially since SFO Class B (to the floor) is just up ahead as well, an invisible wall you better not run into. Friendly controllers, though, in my experience :-)
- fractallyte 12y agoAnd yet, this could be turned to another point of view: that human activity has caused environmental harm, with too many dangerous and polluting aircraft and cars, an airport in the birds' natural habitat, and the destruction of natural predators, with all the accompanying ecological side-effects...
- ensignavenger 12y agoAnd your proposed solution would be what? A thinning of the human population? I think most people would prefer the OP's proposal.
- aaronem 12y agoI don't know. The OP's proposal is rather less modest.