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Dilbert Firestorm > wrote:

> Walter Traprock wrote:
>
> >did people use to eat mammoth meat early last century? i've
> >just read about being served mammoth meat by the Czar of Russia,
> >meat dug up that's been frozen for thousands of years. there was
> >no comment on the taste of he meat. book: sea devil's fo'c'sle,
> >by lowell thomas (1929). OK, i'll quote all of it relating to mammoth:
> >
> >"and then there was mammoth's meat. It had been dug up in Siberia
> >out of the ice, where it had been kept naturally refrigerated
> >for thousands of years. Eating that ancient mammoth's meat is
> >more common now, but then it was something new and startling."
> >

> I heard that i was good... dunno where that reference came from


An old girlfriend, perhaps?