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 ML> If one is blessed with a whole 'roo, why not carve up the rump
 ML> and eat that, instead of fussing with the tail and its tendons?
 GJ> Nothing is wasted.  It is aboriginal custom for the tenderest meat to
 GJ> be given to the tribal elders, who tell the young ones that they have
 GJ> to eat the tough bits ("...or you will get weak and feeble like me").

Ah. Clever. So the old guys have learned to scam their youths. I
wonder whether senior citizens have evolved such self-preservatory
techniques in all societies where they manage to survive to
toothlessness (which is how old? in the bush).

 GJ> For Australians like myself, a little further removed from the tribal
 GJ> culture, I only have access to the already butchered beast.  As the
 GJ> tendons cook down completely, and there is no fat to trim, there is
 GJ> less prep work for me to do on a tail than what would be necessary for
 GJ> ox tail.   The tail has best flavour of all.

See, you've been indoctrinated well.

 GJ> It might be worthwhile phoning the croc farm and asking how much a
 GJ> dozen for fresh croc eggs...  (I'm tempted.)   I guess that the taste
 GJ> would be similar to turtle eggs, which I used to eat occasionally when
 GJ> I lived in Lae.

Let me know what the result is. Question regarding the things as
pets. Why do they sell (or lease, or whatever) animals that have
grown to a size where they can be difficult to manage instead of
selling the eggs for incubation or at least hatchlings?

 GJ> By forcing the "odd person out" to
 GJ> imbibe to the point where s/he is reduced to babbling incoherence or
 GJ> up-chucking, the bully is reassured as to his own superiority.

Pretty much.

 If,
 GJ> however, the strange one out-drinks the perpetrator, the whole lark
 GJ> mis-fires.

Pretty much.

 GJ> chooses his meats and vegetables, placing them on a metal tray.  This
 GJ> is then weighed, and charged accordingly.   $10.90 minimum for up to
 GJ> 300g of food, with any more at that pro rata.  The choices of thinly
 GJ> sliced meat for the stir-frying was wider than before, with the
 GJ> seafood including 2 or 3 kinds of fish, scallops, mussels, cockles,
 GJ> baby octopus, squid, and the meat ranged from chicken, to duck, lamb,
 GJ> veal, beef, buffalo, crocodile, camel, emu and horse.

I'd pay 10.90 for 300 g of scallops (if good), squid, duck, camel,
or emu. Not sure about horse, which I've tasted only a few times.

 GJ> out a bottle with only 100 ml left in it, labelled "Bundaberg
 GJ> Chocolate Rum Liqueur" (20% alcohol), and said that it was the last
 GJ> bottle they had of that, and no more was being made.   I decided to
 GJ> try it, and was given a liqueur glass of it to pour over my 2 scoops
 GJ> of good ice cream.  It was excellent, with a nice rum bite, and a soft
 GJ> chocolate overtone.  The only improvement would have been if I had had
 GJ> two glasses of it over the ice cream.

What you might have done was to point out that there was but 20%
in that formulation, and you were used to 40 to 54%, so it would
be only fair to give you two glasses.

 ML> afterward Ella Lou said that she might never go to a piano
 ML> recital again.
 GJ> And would you?

No problem. I could do that every week. That level of stamina
and the fact that I can readily cleanse my mind and forget
everything in a few days might explain why I periodically do
this sort of thing professionally.

One-Five
cat: booze
servings: 1

1 1/2 oz Brugal anejo rum
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
splash cranberry
splash 7-Up

Shake on ice and serve in a martini glass garnished with
an orange slice.

Brenda Marry, Vox Populi, Boston
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