Lion meat - would you eat it?

by nevada Mon May 20, 2013 12:03 am

$70 for this.

Lion meat - would you eat it? Lion2-600x400

http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2013/05/17/lion-meat-is-on-the-menu-at-burlingames-mokutanya-restaurant/?plckOnPage=3&plckItemsPerPage=10&plckSort=TimeStampDescending

A Peninsula restaurant’s publicity stunt is sparking outcry among the general public, with the volume increasing as it makes the rounds through the web.

Lion meat went on the menu yesterday at Mokutanya Yakitori Restaurant in Burlingame, and since the restaurant announced the special on Facebook yesterday, the page has been swamped with negative — or, ahem, catty — comments. The mane course is only available at the Japanese restaurant on Wednesdays and Thursdays, as the pride of its exotic fare menu.

The lion skewer (pictured above) costs a ridiculous $70 per portion. The shipment came in to the restaurant yesterday, and its circle of life is expected to last two to three weeks, according to a restaurant receptionist.

[Note: Lions, while technically legal to serve because it's threatened but not endangered, have been a controversial choice in America, as many organizations have been petitioning to the government to list the African lion as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. You can read more about the lion meat situation here; for what it's worth, a Florida taqueria recently pulled lion tacos from its menu.]

Even though the roar of outcry is loud — and getting louder — the restaurant isn’t letting the deluge of negativity scar them like an wildebeest stampede.

“I know we’re swamped on Facebook with nothing but cuss words,” the receptionist acknowledged, who said that lion meat will be still offered next Wednesday as scheduled. Also, they’ve actually been selling the lion skewers. After 11pm alone last night (the restaurant is open until 2 a.m.), they served over 20 late-night orders.

Odds are the outcry will continue as long as the restaurant continues what is clearly a publicity stunt. Already, dozens of diners have sworn off the restaurant, including one regular that was so loyal that he was even on the restaurant’s text message alert list, so perhaps the attention-grab will end up backfiring.

What do you think?

by Nila Mon May 20, 2013 1:13 pm

Chinese will eat anything...just saying. They will pay anything for monkey brains and tiger meat. It is to capture the Asians attention.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Mon May 20, 2013 1:22 pm

Nila wrote:Chinese will eat anything...just saying. They will pay anything for monkey brains and tiger meat. It is to capture the Asians attention.

Agree... they will even eat you..if they get a chance...

but wait.....never mind...

by Nila Mon May 20, 2013 1:29 pm

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
Nila wrote:Chinese will eat anything...just saying. They will pay anything for monkey brains and tiger meat. It is to capture the Asians attention.

Agree... they will even eat you..if they get a chance...

but wait.....never mind...

ok...........................never.......................minding.......................

by Impedimenta Mon May 20, 2013 1:33 pm

goes very well with my kutti vengaya sambar..... Very Happy

by Nila Mon May 20, 2013 1:37 pm

Impedimenta wrote:goes very well with my kutti vengaya sambar.....

I am having mullangi sambar with rice made with kutti vengayam. Smile

by Guest Mon May 20, 2013 1:49 pm

yuckkkk! i have officially given up meat. i am a pescetarian now. only prawns, eggs and fish.

by indophile Mon May 20, 2013 2:29 pm

Impedimenta wrote:goes very well with my kutti vengaya sambar.....

Is "kutti vengaya" a small eggplant, with two cuts half way from the top (making a "+" at the top), and stuffed with what you like to stuff it with? We call that "gutti vankaya" in Telugu. I am curious to find out if kutti vengaya and gutti vankaya are same.

by Nila Mon May 20, 2013 2:31 pm

Nope. Kutti vengayam is pearl onions.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Mon May 20, 2013 2:35 pm

indophile wrote:
Impedimenta wrote:goes very well with my kutti vengaya sambar.....
Is "kutti vengaya" a small eggplant, with two cuts half way from the top (making a "+" at the top), and stuffed with what you like to stuff it with? We call that "gutti vankaya" in Telugu. I am curious to find out if kutti vengaya and gutti vankaya are same.

That eggplant stuff is how you make Rasavaangi.

Vengayum is Onion, Kutti = cute and small. Now add them both.

by indophile Mon May 20, 2013 2:54 pm

I thought "kutti" meant "no holds barred" like a kutti dance in a film (item dance where they dance and prance with very little on).

by Impedimenta Mon May 20, 2013 3:05 pm

indo - araichu vitta chinna vengaya sambar - Very Happy

...goes by that name as well. whatever it is, it is ours [tamilians] to keep:-)

by southindian Mon May 20, 2013 4:02 pm

Off-course, I would if I were a non-vegetarian. I don't see any reason why not.

by Guest Mon May 20, 2013 4:06 pm

I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

by southindian Mon May 20, 2013 4:10 pm

Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

How about Nawab's milk?

by indophile Mon May 20, 2013 4:12 pm

I read about ayurvedic medicines made from the milk of some animals -- elephant milk, tigress milk, and even donkey milk (it's given to infants who don't cry -- they immediately break the sound barrier).

by Guest Mon May 20, 2013 4:19 pm

indophile wrote:I read about ayurvedic medicines made from the milk of some animals -- elephant milk, tigress milk, and even donkey milk (it's given to infants who don't cry -- they immediately break the sound barrier).

Not just the milk, even the meat of animals is recommended for consumption for specific ailments. Surprisingly enough even the consumption of beef has been recommended in Charaka Samhita which is the primary textbook of Ayurveda--for people suffering from emaciation.

by Merlot Daruwala Tue May 21, 2013 4:11 am

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:
indophile wrote:
Impedimenta wrote:goes very well with my kutti vengaya sambar.....
Is "kutti vengaya" a small eggplant, with two cuts half way from the top (making a "+" at the top), and stuffed with what you like to stuff it with? We call that "gutti vankaya" in Telugu. I am curious to find out if kutti vengaya and gutti vankaya are same.

That eggplant stuff is how you make Rasavaangi.

Ok, this is one more Maharashtrian import. Looks like cuisine of the Maratha rulers of Tanjavur really took off amongst their subjects.

by pravalika nanda Tue May 21, 2013 4:35 am

Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

by Merlot Daruwala Tue May 21, 2013 4:42 am

pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

In Maharashtra, they add jaggery and elaichi and steam it, giving a lip-smackingly delicious, panacotta-like dessert called kharvas. One of my all time favorites.

by pravalika nanda Tue May 21, 2013 4:46 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:
pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

In Maharashtra, they add jaggery and elaichi and steam it, giving a lip-smackingly delicious, panacotta-like dessert called kharvas. One of my all time favorites.

** but that's exactly how we prepare it too, in a small village in Andhra where people rarely travel outside and no one comes to visit. are you going to take it away from us?

by Merlot Daruwala Tue May 21, 2013 4:57 am

pravalika nanda wrote:
Merlot Daruwala wrote:
pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

In Maharashtra, they add jaggery and elaichi and steam it, giving a lip-smackingly delicious, panacotta-like dessert called kharvas. One of my all time favorites.
** but that's exactly how we prepare it too, in a small village in Andhra where people rarely travel outside and no one comes to visit. are you going to take it away from us?

Despite your past rudeness, I don't believe in taking away junnu from small-village people who nobody visits. So please keep your junnu. If you can, give some to JM Unkil - nobody visits him either.

by bw Tue May 21, 2013 5:56 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:
pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

In Maharashtra, they add jaggery and elaichi and steam it, giving a lip-smackingly delicious, panacotta-like dessert called kharvas. One of my all time favorites.

what about the poor little calf?

i thought this was something that was fed only to infants (based on the posts on SUCH).

adults consume it too?

by Merlot Daruwala Tue May 21, 2013 6:14 am

bw wrote:what about the poor little calf?

Kharvas is the dessert. Don't confuse that with (or feed it to) the main course.

bw wrote:i thought this was something that was fed only to infants (based on the posts on SUCH).

adults consume it too?

Haha...do you also believe the other famous flimflamism that Northindians are pigeon-chested, buck-toothed, knock-kneed, incestuous weaklings?

by pravalika nanda Wed May 22, 2013 6:03 pm

Merlot Daruwala wrote:
pravalika nanda wrote:
Merlot Daruwala wrote:
pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

In Maharashtra, they add jaggery and elaichi and steam it, giving a lip-smackingly delicious, panacotta-like dessert called kharvas. One of my all time favorites.
** but that's exactly how we prepare it too, in a small village in Andhra where people rarely travel outside and no one comes to visit. are you going to take it away from us?

Despite your past rudeness, I don't believe in taking away junnu from small-village people who nobody visits. So please keep your junnu. If you can, give some to JM Unkil - nobody visits him either.

** I spoke to my people in the small village that no one ever visits and no one ever leaves in a language that no one else speaks and to a foreigner might sound like little squeaks. We've decided that we don't care for your sporadic kindness and will continue to engage in utter rudeness. Please eat some goats, hunt them yourself if you can, and be prepared.

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Wed May 22, 2013 8:06 pm

pravalika nanda wrote:
Rashmun wrote:I don't care for Lion Meat. However i would not mind drinking Tigress's milk.

** why tigress milk?? what's so special or potent about it? btw, donkey's milk closest to human milk and I was told that buffalo milk is the tastiest; I've had neither. I've had colostrum from a cow though, I think that's what flim calls "junnu."

When I grew up it was mostly buffallo milk. For some reason, the cow milk was costlier, and I remember there was a buffallo farm right in West Mambalam next to my house. I thought bcz cows were mostly white/yellow, cow's milk was only for the rich.

And I remember ppl added a little water as buffallo milk was a little thicker. There was no taste diff...

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