I just wanted to confirm Ursa's main point about cultural relativity by pointing out that here in Australia Kangaroo meat is only mildly more "weird" than beef/lamb/pork/chicken. It's available at least as mince in major supermarkets now, although it wasn't when I was growing up 20 years ago.
And if your kangaroo tasted like dryish beef it was probably (a) tasteless and (b) badly cooked. It usually tastes quite a lot stronger than beef, and you have to cook it carefully to avoid dryness because it's very lean.
On my personal weird-things-I-ate list at the top is frog's legs, which I ate in a French hotel in Singapore of all places!
I do think I'd have a problem personally with eating the meat of species I personally perceive only as pets (cat/dog, basically) but I don't mind others doing so, and perhaps if they did so in my presence I'd get enough used to the idea to try it. And canibalism doesn't appeal... but aside from that I'd be willing to try most things!
I did not grow up on a farm but spent significant time on relatives' farms and grew up in interface area between city/country so raised chooks and had pet rabbits and the neigbours had bees and one had a sheep (yes, just one!). Have helped raise poddy lambs and calves while at relatives' farms too. I'm fine with eating all those meats, it's just the things-I-see-only-as-companion-animals I think might be hard.
Interesting, I've never had venison. I imagine I could get it if I tried hard enough but it's uncommon here because we don't have deer!
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I just wanted to confirm Ursa's main point about cultural relativity by pointing out that here in Australia Kangaroo meat is only mildly more "weird" than beef/lamb/pork/chicken. It's available at least as mince in major supermarkets now, although it wasn't when I was growing up 20 years ago.
And if your kangaroo tasted like dryish beef it was probably (a) tasteless and (b) badly cooked. It usually tastes quite a lot stronger than beef, and you have to cook it carefully to avoid dryness because it's very lean.
On my personal weird-things-I-ate list at the top is frog's legs, which I ate in a French hotel in Singapore of all places!
I do think I'd have a problem personally with eating the meat of species I personally perceive only as pets (cat/dog, basically) but I don't mind others doing so, and perhaps if they did so in my presence I'd get enough used to the idea to try it. And canibalism doesn't appeal... but aside from that I'd be willing to try most things!
I did not grow up on a farm but spent significant time on relatives' farms and grew up in interface area between city/country so raised chooks and had pet rabbits and the neigbours had bees and one had a sheep (yes, just one!). Have helped raise poddy lambs and calves while at relatives' farms too. I'm fine with eating all those meats, it's just the things-I-see-only-as-companion-animals I think might be hard.
Interesting, I've never had venison. I imagine I could get it if I tried hard enough but it's uncommon here because we don't have deer!