So, last week, we brought you the tale of a Tucson, Arizona, restaurant and bar that wanted to include lion on its exotic taco night next month.Personally, I blame Disney's "Lion King" for the uproar. What's really funny, in a sick, demented, what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-us sort of way, is that the restaurant owner has received death threats over the lion tacos. Death threats. Over a menu item. I'll wager $100 that whoever made the death threat hasn't the faintest clue about lions; they probably think they're cuddly big housecats rather than the deadly predators that they really are.Boca Tacos y Tequila had served delicacies such as elk, turtle, kangaroo and python in the past, so this didn't seem like such a dramatic departure from its past offerings on Exotic Taco Wednesdays (CNN affiliate KVOA points out Boca has also made Rocky Mountain oyster tacos, which, interestingly, were served without controversy).
You know, like Tim Treadwell thought about grizzlies...
That is all.
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Now I can't wait to take a vacation in Iceland where I can order minke whale steak just about anywhere. Gotta love those descended from the vikings.
- Brad
".Personally, I blame Disney's "Lion King" for the uproar."
I see what you did there.
As Brigid pointed out at my blog, the grizzlies may have been after Treadwell's "special brownies."
It seems those objecting to lion tacos may have gotten into the same stash.
More to the point, why on earth would anyone think this a good idea in the first place? Those tacos are going to taste *terrible*. Lions, as you noted, are predators. They eat meat. Not infrequently, what we would consider "questionable" meat. Things that eat meat are, in general, considerably less tasty than herbivores, and in the specific, the shorter digestive track of the feline (the same one that means they don't absorb enough of the protein they eat to leave their leavings attractive to dogs) is, ah, sub optimal for flavor production. There's a reason even places like Korea where dog is on the menu, you don't see cat until things are *really* desperate.
The dipshit hippy is just an idiot, fire at will, but whoever came up with the idea of a cat meat taco needs some sense slapped in 'em.
Maybe the death-threat idiots don't realize that these are farmed lions, as well.
The comments over there made me weep for the Republic, myself.
("Didn't they realize this country has animal lovers who'd never let them get away with that?"
Well, honey... I hate to break this to you, but all of those other tacos are also made from animals.
Lions aren't special. Apart from, like Stingray said, probably tasting terrible.
I'll stick to tongue or goat.)
I guess terrorism is ok if it's for a good cause.
I dunno Stingray, I've had grilled bobcat and mountain lion and both were pretty damned good when not overcooked.
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