Look, why do we need to drag Bill Clinton and Al Gore into this? Just leave Hippo out of the story....
There goes my big Hippo Roast. Damn...anyone need a 55 gallon drum of Hienze 57 sauce ?
The only thing worse on you to eat than dead hippo meat is live hippo meat.....
I know I wouldn't eat it...
Whew!
Luckily, my supermarket has been all out of hippo meat.
This is why 15 billion dollars for AIDS relief to Africa is such a bad idea. We'll be seeing adults suffocating themselves putting condoms over their heads!
Never eat road kill.
It didn't say whether or not the deceased cooked their meat before eating it.
In a related story, Hillary reports a sudden weight loss.
We're talking a MAJOR case of Montezuma's Revenge here, folks. On the solid side, that is.
I wonder if it tasted like chicken?
And no,...I don't mean John Kerry.
Oh ha ha ha ha, I am just so funny.
Notice this all occurred in "BUSHenyi" district. Damn it - Bush is behind this too! That's it, I'm calling Kitty right away!
Damn I was going to make Hippo Chile tonight. Now I'll have to throw out all that meat.
They should have gone easier on the Tabasco sauce.
Dusk falls over Burundi’s lakeside Cercle Nautique Bar Restaurant, and the drinkers settle back for the evening show — a visit from a hippopotamus family.
But only one young animal is bold enough to surface and play hide and seek with the onlookers, bobbing and diving between yachts anchored on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. “You know why the hippo hides?” said waiter Benoit Mazuru. “It fears to be killed. Hippos are being slaughtered.”
Locals say the amphibious animals are being wiped out by soldiers who earn extra cash by selling the meat to restaurants where middle-class gourmets pay highly to taste its flesh. Experts fear the growing trade in bushmeat, which is fuelled by poverty, is devastating much of Africa’s wildlife.
“Soldiers kill hippos but people fear to denounce them,” said Shabani, a fisherman. “The operation is done early in the morning. They shoot the hippo, immediately they start cutting the meat, five minutes afterwards everything is finished, then the meat is carried in a van (to buyers).”
The animals’ aquatic visits to Bujumbura’s lakeside bars are becoming more rare and they have learned to avoid areas frequented by the army, a protagonist in the country’s 10-year-old civil war.
“I’ve eaten hippo meat several times and it is very delicious,” said enthusiast Emmanuel Manirakiza at a restaurant at Gatumba on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Lea Harushimana, a 25-year-old mother, says she celebrates whenever she can get hold of hippo steaks and fries them with cassava, rice or potatoes. “We invite neighbours, it’s a party. Hippo meat is delicious,” she said. —Reuters