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Dilbert Firestorm
 
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bill van wrote:

>In article >,
> Dilbert Firestorm > wrote:
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>>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 heard that it was good... dunno where that reference came from
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>An old girlfriend, perhaps?
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you wish, maybe???