Elephant steak

omg. My eyes almost popped out of my head when I saw this discussion. I would NEVER eat an elephant steak! Not only is it because I'm vegeterian, but it just plain gross to me. I think elephants are such gorgeous animals, I would never dream of eating one. Aren;t they endangered species, anyway?

No I havent and I am not sure if I wnat to .I guess its just not my culture and if me was over Africa I would be eating it and probably elephant stew or soup.One think I think though that elephant steak must be really thick .I wonder if it is easy to cook because elephant look liek thay are tough animals

Not me, but I did have buffalo and ostrich (not at the same time.) I also had Rocky Mountain Oysters, which are the glands in the bag between a bull's hind legs. I also had snails, but I didn't try frog legs yet. And regularly I eat sushi, which is actually the name of the rice with vinegar for the Japanese dishes, but a common topping is raw fish. The most unusual I had was sea urchin, but I only like it when it is dressed up with masago (I think that is smelt eggs) and a quail egg. More common meats I had that you don't usually find in supermarkets are venison (deer,) rabbit, pheasant, and goose. I might have been offered a squirrel once in my life, but I don't really remember. Some restaurants serve duck, and I still have that once in a while, so I don't think that qualifies as an unusual dish, just hard to find. I would imagine the butcher in charge of that elephant would have some assistants. This made me recall the beginning of the Fred Flintstone cartoons when Fred orders the dinosaur ribs that was bigger and heavier than his car.

I have not eaten elephant steak, nor do I care to do so. I'm only mildly surprised that South Africans might want to eat elephant. The principal problem I can see, though, is the shear size of the animal. It would feed a large village with some left over. How would a restaurant manage the amount of meat when they would probably have only have a few people order the dish. That has made me wonder as to whether you might be pulling my leg.

I like the idea and willing to try it if I have a chance. But seriously elephant is a huge animal, how can a restaurant finish all of its body parts in a single day. Maybe it will last long enough to preserve the meat and stay fresh for a long time. Anyways, did you know in asia a human fetus are eaten as a delicacy? That would be more disgusting to be eaten. Yack