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My grandfather told my that during the WW2 occupation, fisherman occasionally used to catch & eat swans. Even during the war, the meat was not socially accepted
by vj44 12y ago
My grandfather told my that during the WW2 occupation, fisherman occasionally used to catch & eat swans. Even during the war, the meat was not socially accepted for human consumption (ie. in western culture would consider it on par with "dog meat"), thus not very popular.
- paganel 12y ago> Even during the war, the meat was not socially accepted for human consumption For what it's worth, it was a huge scandal in the early 1990s in my country when it was rumored that members of our local gipsy community had eaten swans after they had just arrived in Vienna. It stuck along as a stereotype for at least a decade, if not more. As for the reference, the best I could find was this: http://books.google.ro/books?id=gHKm95EweOwC&pg=PT272&lpg=PT272&dq=eating+swans+vienna+gypsies&source=bl&ots=F1IMlgVdYa&sig=HITnDa4Ra1SdJEQBbxHDPqD7Olw&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=Ld9tU6rjL4mN7Qb1lYHIDQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=eating%20swans%20vienna%20gypsies&f=false http://books.google.ro/books?id=gHKm95EweOwC&pg=PT272&lpg=PT... , but there was also a Sun story from 2008 about "Eastern" immigrants having eaten swans.