I bet hippo steak would be pretty good.
It is, so is the burger.
https://www.ripleys.com/stories/hippo-meat
During the start of the 20th century, a group of eclectic men decided to tackle America’s meat crisis by introducing hippopotamus into the American diet. Hippo steak may have become a common menu item today had they succeeded.
Frederick Russell Burnham’s Solution
In the early 1900s, a growing population and overgrazed land created high demand for meat. Bison had nearly become extinct, leaving no animals to hunt. However, a man named Frederick Russell Burnham was convinced that hippo meat was the solution.
Burnham was an American adventurer, soldier, and chief of scouts for the British army during the Second Boer War. He moved to Africa in 1893 and was the inspiration behind the Boy Scouts and the big-screen action hero Indiana Jones.
Burnham was a proponent of eating hippopotamus meat because animals such as cows, sheep, poultry, and pig were not native to the United States yet they were a large part of the American diet. Also, African animals such as ostriches and camels had easily adapted to certain areas of the United States, and Burnham believed hippos could do so as well.