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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