Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Python Pizza & Penguin Pot Roast

Episode Date: March 7, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. I look at this story about what 11 zoo animals taste like. And it makes me think, hmm, how many of these have I eaten? So, you ever eaten an elephant? Elephant feet, part of a complete breakfast. Well, exploring Mozambique in 1864, Scottish missionary David Livingstone, was served this pedal delicacy. cooked in the native fashion, finding it delicious. He wrote, it is a whitish mass, slightly gelatinous, and sweet like marrow.

Best of all the meal came with a healthy side of beer. Maybe it was the beer that tasted good rather than the elephant feet. I did know a man once that had elephant feet stools, but I never ate them. so I'm not real sure what that's like I know don't look at me like that the guy was a it was a hunter

and he used the the four feet as stools you know or about I don't know two or three feet high with leather over the top

in each corner of the room I just I just thought of that oh my gosh he was this doctor what was his name oh my gosh and he had this

big game hunting room and in the hallway as you walked into his home the game hunting room was off the left but in that hallway was the beginning and in each corner was elephant feet stools

anyway elephant white is mashed lightly gelatinous slightly gelatinous and sweet like marrow ever eat a giraffe me either I can't say I've ever eaten a giraffe knowingly properly prepared and cooked rare.

A giraffe's meat steak could be better than steak or venison. The meat has a natural sweetness and may not be to everybody's taste, but certainly it was to the chef's taste, and it needed to be grilled over an open fire. The Galabolo's tortoise. Wow. Charles Darwin did not like them.

The young tortoises made excellent soup, but otherwise the meat to my taste was Indifferent. Didn't like the turtle. How about a lion? When you think of a lion, do you think about eating a lion? I mean, I guess if you're where lions are and you're hungry, you're thinking about eating a lion.

You can quote me on that. This restaurant actually in Tampa Bay began selling these $35 entrees last year, and now it's removed it from the menu. Surprisingly tasty, said one customer. Tastes kind of like venison. Texture kind of. like gator. Gator I've had. Python.

I'm not a big on snakes. They're still making, in this, the big Florida, Burmese python invasion, a pizza place in Fort Myers, Florida. Evans neighborhood pizza offers what he calls Everglades pizza topped with slivers of 20-foot snakes. Ooh. You know what? I just think I might want pepperoni. But, Jeff, we can put a little snake on there. Yeah.

No, I'm good. Double cheese and pepperoni is fine. A camel. I've never had camel, although the camel that hated me in Israel, I could think about eating him. Because he and I didn't like each other much. Did like each other much. Cross between beef and lamb.

Camel steaks are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to conventional red meat in much of Europe and even parts of the U.S. really? Even parts of the U.S. camel meat? Okay. All right, if you say so. Gorillas, we're not going to eat gorillas, although we find out that they're finding places in the big cities

where gorilla is being sold because it's called bushmeat. And that's what bushmeat is, is the gorilla, right? And it's causing some problems. They didn't really like it too much. Sloth? Ugh. Sloth meat. Isn't for the weak stomach, said Aaron Paul Lowe.

It was one of the few absolutely disgusting animals we ate. Sloth. No, thank you. No, thank you. Also on the list was a panda bear. Archaeological evidence suggests that prehistoric humans once hunted giant pandas with spears. since then, obviously it's fallen and no record.

Now, there's no record of what they taste like. In 1928, we know that Teddy Roosevelt's sons, Kermit and Theodore, hunted an eight one while visiting China, but they didn't document what it tasted like. That might not be a good sign, right? You got a peacock? I mean, I've had a pheasant. I don't know that I would eat a peacock. It's got a turkey flavor.

But back to smells again. However, certain medieval critics are, to be believed, stocking up on some gas X first might be necessary as when you eat Peacock. Well, did, okay, well, I don't think that those times had gas X, but apparently they create a lot of gas, which was the problem. And it talks about hippopotamus, how well hippo tastes. taste mild, less than lamb, more than beef, slightly marbled. So it was tasted really, really good.

And what was worse on the list? The worst animal to eat on the list? Penguin. Yes. If it's possible to imagine a piece of beef, odorous codfish, and a canvas back duck roasted together in a pot with blood and cod liver oil for sauce, the illustration would be complete. Yum.

Penguin. You know.