Feels so wrong, but tastes so right

[brettw]

Today we had a "welcome back" lunch for a guy in my team that I've never met before. We went to the Ironbark Cafe in Manuka, which is a very Australian restaurant. I order the "Australian Tastes plate" which was crocodile, kangaroo and emu (sorry veg*ans), served with a salad made out of Australian leaves and herbs. I had a wild bush lime lemonade

Comments

[maga_dogg]

I count thirteen nations where a coat-of-arms animal is eaten regularly (mostly cattle), eleven (including Australia) where coat-of-arms animals are the sort of thing you might eat occasionally or as a novelty food, and a further seventeen which feature animals which are plausibly edible but pretty unlikely - usually because they're protected, rare or non-indigenous.

This list assumes you only want to eat one of the animals on the coat of arms, though; it'd shrink considerably if you wanted to have every animal on the same plate. Particularly if you count humans.

[brettw]

I am quite impressed with your research. The coat-of-arms factoid is one thrown around a lot, but I never followed it up. Now I know.

[maga_dogg]

My research consisted of Wikipedia, counting on my fingers, and making some barely-informed guesses.

[brettw]

That's enough for a series of papers and a bucket of grant money in some disciplines.