What does it taste like?

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/02/explainer_house_call_what_does_sloth_meat_taste_like_.html

A good read, especially for those who like meat, quirky facts, or just, sloths!

I would paste the whole article, but many words/phrases are hyperlinks worth following, so they would be lost.

One thing baffled me:

Quote :

"Everett prefers to tenderize the meat in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes, season it with cilantro, garlic, salt, and chili sauce, and add it to tacos."

Everett is a linguist who has spent 7 years with a certain tribe in the Amazon. Sloths are illegal to hunt, but he has tasted sloth because his hosts have had it (natives can get away with it). However, he says that even for the natives, eating sloth is taboo, and they eat it extremely rarely, on average about 1 sloth/15 years/tribesman.

That begs the question...

HOW MANY SLOTHS did this linguist eat to develop a PREFERENCE for how to cook them, make bloody SLOTH TACOS, and even take a damn PRESSURE COOKER to the thick jungles to cook his sloth meat???


Previous articles, also good reads:

Dinosaur meat:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/10/what_did_dinosaur_meat_taste_like.html

Whale meat:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/03/what_does_whale_taste_like.html

Horse meat:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/10/slaughtering_horses_for_meat_is_banned_in_the_u_s_why_.html

2/18/2012 5:33:27 AM

I'll post in your thread.

2/18/2012 12:49:13 PM

in before kristen bale

2/18/2012 12:52:03 PM