Charles Wm. Dimmick wrote:

> 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."
>
>
> Sometime back in the 30s the Explorer's Club in NYC had a
> banquet in which one of the items on the menu was mammoth
> meat [unless it was mastodon meat; I no longer remember].
> I had occasion to talk with one of the people who had been
> at that banquet and asked him what it tasted like. He
> told me it tasted like mud.
>
> No, I can't give you any more detail. I don't remember his
> name; some friend of the family I met back around 1956.

Upon further reflection, I wonder if he was pulling my leg.
At age 16 I was still at the stage where I believed sober
adults when they told me things.

Charles