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Dilbert Firestorm
 
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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