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."

According to http://archives.stupidquestion.net/sq21405.html, "There
is no reliable report of a modern human eating any part of a frozen
mammoth—and very few unreliable reports, for that matter."

The page goes on about the unfeasibility of eating frozen mammoth, but
does mention that a University of Alaska professor, along with some
chosen friends, chowed down on stew made from a 36,000-year-old bison
and found it "agreeable."

I couldn't say how reliable the research on stupidquestion.net is, but I
also can't say I've ever seen a report of anybody actually eating
ancient mammoth meat. Even the Flintstones only ate the fresh stuff.

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