Ok, so we are having kangaroo for dinner tomorrow. Or, to be more precise, kangaroo minced and cooked in a lasagne. Now some would be horrorfied to learn that in Australia, we eat one of our national icons. However, it must be understood that the kangaroo is bloody everywhere. You can't drive from one city to another without seeing roo roadkills. After a good season (where it actually rains), farmers have to go out and shoot a whole lot of them, or else they eat all the stock feed and then starve when it is gone (see, we have to kill them, or they'll DIE!) Kangaroo meat is also tasty and very good for you, being almost totally fat free. Scott has an ambition to go to the Red Geko cafe in Canberra, and eat the "Coat of Arms"- a kangaroo steak and an emu steak. Both animals are on our national thingie- aparently because neither animal is capable of going backwards. I heartily endorse this ambition, and hope to see it fulfilled. So please, at some point in yuor life, take some time out to enjoy some tasty, tasty roo. Unless you're vegetarian, in which case have some faux-roo made. Jillian
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A word on kangaroos
Date: 2004-01-22 04:20 am (UTC)Now some would be horrorfied to learn that in Australia, we eat one of our national icons. However, it must be understood that the kangaroo is bloody everywhere. You can't drive from one city to another without seeing roo roadkills. After a good season (where it actually rains), farmers have to go out and shoot a whole lot of them, or else they eat all the stock feed and then starve when it is gone (see, we have to kill them, or they'll DIE!)
Kangaroo meat is also tasty and very good for you, being almost totally fat free.
Scott has an ambition to go to the Red Geko cafe in Canberra, and eat the "Coat of Arms"- a kangaroo steak and an emu steak. Both animals are on our national thingie- aparently because neither animal is capable of going backwards. I heartily endorse this ambition, and hope to see it fulfilled.
So please, at some point in yuor life, take some time out to enjoy some tasty, tasty roo. Unless you're vegetarian, in which case have some faux-roo made. Jillian