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Are you making a serious comment, or does this pass for wit on such a topic? If serious, is that the sum of your contribution? To want to eat an animal that hasn't existed for hundreds of years?


It was a joke about the gastronomic focus of the great majority of Europeans who met dodo in person.

I recommend this book[0] for you, the edited diaries of an explorer of the rugged wilderness of South Westland in New Zealand in the late 1800s[1], who kept detailed notes on all the birds he encountered, including their culinary utility.

He used to eat five of what is now the world's most endangered parrot[2] for breakfast, and remarked upon their pleasant fruity flavour, and recommended saving their fat to cook your camp bread in.

And being honest, I'd be very interested in a family drumstick from Kentucky Fried Moa. Although I suspect they'd be rather gamey.

[0]: https://smithsbookshop.co.nz/p/mr-explorer-douglas-john-pasc...

[1]: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/travels-with-mr-explorer-dougl...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D


If it's good enough for Charles Darwin...


How preposterous! What buffoonery!




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