What does a lion taste like?

Lion meat was the best tasting of the bunch. The meat was a bit tough with a mild taste—like a cross between beef and chicken. The second best tasting meat was the beaver, which was fatty with a mild taste—almost like a pot roast.
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Can we eat lions meat?

African lions are the only big cats in the world not listed as threatened or endangered species. But a recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal could change that and give these cats protection to keep them off of dinner plates.
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What does a giraffe taste like?

One Montana-based business called Giraffine claims to sell live animals as well as meat, which its website describes as “intensely flavored lean meat; It tastes very similar to horse meat but more tender.” A call to Giraffine was not immediately returned.
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What animal tastes the best?

Catfish (order Siluriformes), those beady-eyed fish named for their feline-like whiskers, typically have more than 100,000 taste buds. Some large catfish can have as many as 175,000.
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Is lion meat nice?

Lion meat is expensive and most restaurants won't go near it (not even for tacos), especially since it's challenging to make such a dense, muscular meat taste good to our tastebuds, so accustomed to fatty, tender farmed animals.
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What is the tastiest exotic meat?

Here are eight of the most popular and delicious exotic meats, and the best recipes to grill them with.
  1. Bison. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  2. Alligator and Crocodile. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  3. Goat. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  4. Venison. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  5. Wild Boar. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  6. Game Birds. Credit: Getty Images. ...
  7. Ostrich. ...
  8. Elk.
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Can you eat a hippo?

Hippos are still eaten in their native West Africa, even though poaching and war have decimated the population. Poachers, many of whom are current or ex-militiamen, use rocket launchers, machine guns, and even dynamite to kill the hippos.
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Does Panda taste good?

The Explainer has previously described the flavors of whale, sloth, dinosaur, horse, and even human. How does giant panda meat taste? Terrible, apparently.
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What does sloth taste like?

Daniel Everett, a linguist who has spent more than seven years living with the Pirahã people of Brazil, agrees that unseasoned sloth is tough and slightly gamey, but he finds the meat palatable and vaguely reminiscent of pork. You're not likely to ever try sloth.
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Does dog taste good?

He said: “It's a red meat, quite fatty, and extremely fragrant. “Take a cross between beef and mutton, add extra meaty flavouring, and you've got the taste of dog. "It's so delicious that if it wasn't for the thought of eating dog, everyone would probably love it.”
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What hippo taste like?

What does hippo meat taste like? Hippo meat has a mild flavor with gamey undertones. It can be best compared to beef but is better and more flavorful than regular cow meat. Hippo meat is cooked in the same way as lamb or beef but is very hard to find, especially in the mainstream market.
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What elephant tastes like?

"It tastes like venison. There are parts of the head and the neck which we sliced and fried with a bit of butter; it's very tasty." It would have been wasteful to not utilize the animal after killing it, he added. Borsak told CNN he ate one meal of elephant and then ate more as dried cured meat while he was hunting.
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Does Penguin taste good?

They taste like “a piece of beef, odiferous cod fish and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot, with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce”. Today's polar explorers don't have to eat penguins anymore. Unless in a survival situation.
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What animals Can you not eat?

  • Animal lungs (as found in haggis) Animal lungs are a primary ingredient in haggis and the reason why we can't have this Scottish delicacy in America. ...
  • Casu Marzu: a Sardinian cheese filled with live maggots. ...
  • Shark fins. ...
  • Bushmeat: meat from African game animals. ...
  • Pufferfish. ...
  • Horse meat. ...
  • Hallucinogenic absinthe. ...
  • Sea turtle meat.
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What does Rhino taste like?

It is also an incredibly decadent. It's easily found throughout the country at restaurants and restaurants. It tastes somewhere between veal and beef but like all the other game meats, is a much leaner alternative to beef.
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What bear taste like?

Bear meat tastes very similar to venison. It's significantly sweeter, though and may differ in taste depending on the age of the bear. For instance, younger bears have a milder flavor. The season also plays a role in how a bear will taste.
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What does a walrus taste like?

Walrus meat is an extremely powerful, rich and earthy tasting. It is similar to the taste of seal meat, with a slightly gamey flavor. The meat is similar to beef, but with a stronger flavor and more gamey taste.
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What does koala taste like?

I can't direct you to an authoritative source but as far as I am aware the eucalyptus flavour persists in koala flesh giving it a distinct taste which is not very pleasant - kangaroo or other meat was apparently preferred by early settlers, and I think most animal predators target young koalas (maybe while they are ...
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Can you eat elephant?

Today, all species of elephant are hunted specifically for their meat. This occurs notably in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. During ivory hunts by poachers, meat may be taken as a by-product for eventual sale, or to feed the hunting party.
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Are rhinos edible?

Knowlton and a small group of hunting guides spent hours in the brush of northern Namibia, field-dressing the nearly 3,000-pound rhino, cutting through the 2-inch thick hide, revealing massive pieces of meat.
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How does Polar bear taste?

The meat pulled apart like a pork shoulder and had a strong gaminess. Comparing this to another animal isn't really possible, but if I had to do it, fishy pork. The fat had a potency all of its own. Taking on all the fish qualities in flavour, the texture wasn't helping its case.
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Has anyone eaten a panda?

Though humans apparently ate panda in prehistoric times, contemporary Chinese have little taste for the animal. There is an oft-cited saying that Chinese people will "eat anything with four legs except the table" — including braised camel hump, monkey brains, and shark's fin on the occasional (luxe) Chinese menu.
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Are Dolphins edible?

Dolphin meat is consumed in a small number of countries world-wide, which include Japan and Peru (where it is referred to as chancho marino, or "sea pork"). While Japan may be the best-known and most controversial example, only a very small minority of the population has ever sampled it.
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What does cat taste like?

The meat was not like chicken at all, it was a light colored red meat – not that deep dark meat like dog. It tasted slightly similar to pork, yet full of weird little transparent fish like bones and with an ever so slight tinge of sour aftertaste.
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Do people eat crocodile?

Most parts of the crocodile can be eaten, with the most popular cuts being the tenderloin, ribs, body, jaw, and tail. “Most people enjoy eating meat from the body as it's boneless. Some like the premium cuts from the upper part of the animal's tail. These cuts are among our bestsellers,” Wichai said.
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