Kangaroo meat, inflamation research page 2

[Drumroll]

You don't have wild kangaroos in the US? Lol

I know at least one company exports kangaroo to the US.

I have never seen it at a grocery store or farmer's markert or butcher's shop period. I suppose we could order it online with that ridiculous shipping charge...

[Knifegill]

No, there is no kangaroo in the U.S. that I've ever seen. They want us to eat corn and almost nothing but corn.

[peril]

Maybe Drumroll has a few roos loose in the top paddock. Paleobird lives in the US and enjoys a bit of roo, as she posted above

I love roo fillet, the rarer the better. Tastes good with a carbonara sauce, but you have to cope with the juices turning the sauce pink

[Ellement]

I wish I could develop a taste for kangaroo but I find it too gamey...and I've tried it every which way under the sun. Maybe it's all the frozen roo tails in the supermarket freezers here in my town...they're pretty off-putting! Had someone cook one for me once, just chucked the tail, hair and all, on the campfire. Once the hair's blackened it's scraped off then the tail is wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals. To be honest by the time it was done the smell was so bad I couldn't face eating any of the meat, which is very gelatinuous and sinewy apparently and somewhat of an acquired taste.

Don't like many of the native meats here in Australia; kangaroo, emu, crocodile. Love camel though, good thing we have plenty of the feral buggers here in central Australia. The meat is delicious! And given the animals are free-ranging it's all grass-fed guaranteed.

[Paleobird]

I have never seen it at a grocery store or farmer's markert or butcher's shop period. I suppose we could order it online with that ridiculous shipping charge...

That is exactly what I do. And it's worth it.

[jammies]

I wish I could develop a taste for kangaroo but I find it too gamey...and I've tried it every which way under the sun. Maybe it's all the frozen roo tails in the supermarket freezers here in my town...they're pretty off-putting! Had someone cook one for me once, just chucked the tail, hair and all, on the campfire. Once the hair's blackened it's scraped off then the tail is wrapped in foil and cooked in the coals. To be honest by the time it was done the smell was so bad I couldn't face eating any of the meat, which is very gelatinuous and sinewy apparently and somewhat of an acquired taste.

Don't like many of the native meats here in Australia; kangaroo, emu, crocodile. Love camel though, good thing we have plenty of the feral buggers here in central Australia. The meat is delicious! And given the animals are free-ranging it's all grass-fed guaranteed.

Feral camels? For some reason the image of that cracks me up!

[OneDeltaTenTango]

I find that it jumps around a bit too much on the BBQ.

[Ellement]

Feral camels? For some reason the image of that cracks me up!

Yep, feral camels...it's estimated there's about a million of the damn things in central and northern Australia. They were brought over as pack animals by the Afghanis in the 19th century. Once there was no longer any use for them they were released and now they're a huge problem for the environment. Interestingly, the camels in Australia are one of the purest strains in the world because they've been isolated for so long. They're highly prized in the Middle East for racing and for their meat. It's a pity the meat isn't more widely sold here in Australia, it's lean and very very tasty! One of the big problems is that you have a million animals spread out over millions of square kms in the most remote parts of the country...makes them very difficult to round up, let alone get them to slaughter etc...hard to make it cost effective.

[dickzark]

It also makes really good jerky. And roo curry is awesome.

Another good reason to move to Australia, all you lovely Aussie men.

if you ever want to come over i could put you up in the spare room and the roo meat is sold in the local supermarket and you can eat as much as you want it is not that expensive over here

[Lynna]

Yeah, I've never seen kangaroo here in the grocery stores either. Maybe on a restaurant menu - not sure about that. The local brewpub does wild game dinners every once in awhile and they had emu burgers on the menu, but I like their regular burgers and never tried it. They've changed it to wild game burger, but it's different every day and we don't eat out as much as we used to.