Kangaroo fillet, camel sausage and emu pate for feral foodies

I am sure they don't force-feed emus but I was surprised to be offered pate.

@JudyEv I hope that the EU will finally ban the force-feed of ducks and geese.

@LadyDuck I think that would be a very good thing.

I'm pretty sure you're pulling my leg! Just not positive. The python sounds very iffy.

@JudyEv Seriously! I abstain of course. I’d have nightmares if I thought something as vile as a serpent was passing through me. I inadvertently ate snake in India once tasted fine till I knew what it was.

@xFiacre My friend ate frogs' legs very happily till she knew what she was eating. I'm really surprised you can buy those items there. Do you know where they come from?

It certainly wouldn't be everyone's choice.

@JudyEv yes, it is very distinctive - looks uncooked even when it is

@arthurchappell I think that is a good way of putting it.

Do you remember thinking it was very 'red'?

I guess it saved them telling everyone what each meat was. It was a novelty to us but probably pretty 'old hat' to them.

@JudyEv I'm sure it was.

It was something a bit different to experience.

I would have been really satisfied with that meal @JudyEv

lucky you @JudyEv I love cheese unless it's that bland Asiago, that one is ok in enchiladas but I didn't like just eating it. Dangit, now I'm hungry for cheese.

@rebelann Vince doesn't like cheese so I had that all to myself.

@JudyEv but you can you buy in groceries those kinds of meat?

Yes, the early settlers and explorers would have eaten a lot of bush meat.

@rakski Kangaroo is quite easy to find but not so much camel and emu. You can sometimes buy rabbits in the butchers.

@JudyEv For a while, these more exotic 'wild' meats were promoted as more healthy than the domesticated alternatives and some people took up farming bison and ostrich. We used to go to Cornwall (south-west England - I'm sure you know that) every Easter on a big club scuba-diving trip and the people that ran the place also farmed ostriches so we'd regularly have ostrich burgers. They also sold eggs. But then there was some change in the law which re-classified ostriches as dangeroous wild animals and required a whole lot more paperwork etc so they gave up. Currently a lot of people have alpacas to 'mow' their lawns or for wool but apparently the agriculture department hasn't caught on yet so they are still classified as pets which means they avoid all the legal hassle. Strangely I have never seen alpaca meat anywhere.

I've had crocodile but not the others you mention.

@Fleura I haven't heard of anyone eating alpaca either. We stayed at the holiday place in Ireland and they had an emu. But it was kept out of sight as EU laws said it was an exotic animal and there were laws regarding public display and having a wildlife vet available or some such. So stupid.

@JudyEv Oh... well there are plenty of them.

The fillet was quite tender. They must shoot wild ones as it's pretty hard to farm roos unless you could manage to partially tame them.

@JudyEv I like deer and elk, not crazy about antelope though.

@cintol Deer are farmed here so venison is sometimes on the menu in restaurants.

I could never eat a pet animal of any kind but otherwise I can eat most things.

I don't seem to have very good taste buds. It mostly all tastes like meat to me.

@porwest Mostly I can tell the different meats but sometimes there are too many other flavours I guess and I find it hard to pick what I'm eating.

@JudyEv lol. Reminds me of a common theme here, "tastes like chicken." Seems if it doesn't taste like anything else it always just tastes like chicken.

There are many animals whose meat you can eat. Many Africans eat 'bush meat' which can be monkey or other wild life.

@Jessabuma I've had crocodile. That's probably the only other 'different' sort of meat that I've tried although I have had bardi grubs.

@JudyEv Ohh I see..hehe!!! Have you tasted other animals meat that are not common?

I can understand that. I'd be a bit like that with deer.

@JudyEv yes the flags are a good idea so there's no confusion

I like the little flags. I guess it saves them telling customers over and over which is which.

The pate was REALLY nice but I've never seen it on sale anywhere.

In Asia they eat all kinds of insects and I might have a bit of trouble with that but if it has two or four legs I'd give it a try.

We eat a lot of lamb and mutton in Australia too but it seems there is not so much eaten in other countries.

@JudyEv And never tried those too.

Thanks. It was a really interesting day.