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."

There's something in Gulag Archipelago about involuntary residents of
Siberia finding and eating ancient meat out of the ice. Solzhenitsyn
quotes the Soviet journal in which the discovery was reported as saying
that those who found the stuff ate it quite happily, and notes that
nobody seems to have wondered just how hungry they had to be to do
that...