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Tim Wright
 
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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."


Every time I read this subject line, my mind precedes it with, "Great
green gobs of greasy, grimey, gopher guts".

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Tim W

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