Comments on: Mammoth Hunt

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Tue, 10 May 2016 18:46:48 +0000

I had shirako once — raw fish testicles, seed sacks, whatever they were. That seemed primitive at the time; now it just seems a bit dumb. But, hey, at least I won the "who can eat the most extreme sushi" contest with my buddy.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Mon, 09 May 2016 16:03:46 +0000

But the most primitive thing I ever ate remains shark fillet, from an Italian retailer. You just can’t pass on shark as a man!

If you pass on shark meat, you may just as well leave your ballz next to it in the fridge; that’s why I had to buy it.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:41:40 +0000

Who doesn’t like some tongue?

Because of all of you I bought German tongue sausage earlier today, and pretended to be a caveman for the duration of my lunch break, while eating something resembling this bun.

You don’t burp after eating that, you grunt! I bet you can’t wait for German retailer Aldi to come around now…

By: A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog — Sun, 08 May 2016 21:38:12 +0000

If you slice tongue into half inch strips it can be grilled over open flame and is totally edible (and tasty). People like to over complicate things.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Sun, 08 May 2016 20:32:40 +0000

These are hungry folk. They just killed a mammoth. In times of scarcity, they’ll eat anything with food value. If the tongue has gone why would it be for some ritual? It’s just food.

By: CMOT

CMOT — Sun, 08 May 2016 13:54:44 +0000

Cooking tongue takes a long time and demands moist heat. That means not just a lot of firewood, probably hard to come by on the tundra, but some sort of large, hard to move crock that has low heat transference, needing even more fuel to keep hot. The resources required to cook a pound of tongue would cook many pounds meat via roasting over direct fire. Although that meat would be tough …

Organ meats, which can be cooked quickly via direct heat or on heated slabs of rock, have high caloric value, and are soft after cooking, would be most highly prized.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Sun, 08 May 2016 12:25:33 +0000

Why would taking the tongue be worth commenting on? It’s great food. In a society with traditional tastes (like the one around us) it is still eaten often. There’s usually a waiting list for the tongue for our beef sales, so it seems reasonable that mammoth tongue would also be valuable.