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Dilbert Firestorm
 
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Bill Bonde ('by a commodius vicus of recirculation') wrote:

>Walter Traprock wrote:
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>>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:
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>>"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."
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>I'm sure there are more pages you can read:
>http://archives.stupidquestion.net/sq21405.html
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at least there is one case for eating frozen ancient bison meat!