Posted on 08/14/2005 6:59:30 AM PDT by Shawndell Green
I have been to the State park at Quitaque many times. The heard is kept in a fenced area near the park's entrance. They are impressive and unpredictable critters.
Bison steak is the most delicious meat I've eaten.
I marinade it 48 hours in the fridge in a mix of water, salt, pepper, garlic and oregano. Don't cook too long or you'll end up with buffalo leather.
The local tribe raised buffalo here a while back. It didn't work.
It dpends on the age of the critter as well as the preparation of the meat. Some bison can be quite tender and flavourful.
Enjoy. It doesn't matter to me either. If it tickles my tastes buds too I wouldn't question whatever is on my plate. That's why I enjoy Chinese food. I taste first and ask questions latter. LOL
Just like beef, only beefier. My daughter presented me with a couple of steaks and some ground bison a few months ago, and I'm now a committed fan. But it is, indeed, fairly expensive, and obtainable only through the speciality distributors.
Very true. Veal of whatever cattle is more tender than an old cow that can be tough as leather.
If you enjoy it, go with it. Life is short enough without some busibody telling you what to enjoy.
Speaking of Bison; we're told now that cows are the biggest source of air pollution in California. So how is it that, in those pristine and pure utopian days of the "native american," there was no air pollution yet there were somewhere between 60-90 million Bison wandering the plains and prairies of middle America? Don't buffalos fart?
LOL!
The Greens are basically opposed to anyhting that makes life better for humankind. Cattle are a source of food for most people. For the Environuts, that is bad. If humans are well-fed, then they might be, Horrors!, healthy and multiply. Also, anyhting pursued by modern man is mucho evil in the eye of the Environuts.
Cute story but aren't you forgetting about gullies and rivers and overland bridges?
Well I love beef but buffalo IS better. I was just thinking we could solve the pollution problem (shutting up the nutcakes), have better dinners and, as a bonus, we would have buffalo everywhere instead of cows. I figure that would be a bonus because it would be a nice tribute to the 'first Americans' and a retro way of paying homage to the uniqueness and abundance of this continent which we call home. Much lower cholesterol too.
The EPA wasn't invented at the time.
The nuts would continue to b*tch because Buffalo to flatulate and it would involve eating a critter.
I'd eat buffalo just to p*ss them off.
There was no need for it because everything was pure, clean and wholesome at that time.
If he's still alive they should go get the renegade bull that lived above the quary and made a practice of challanging vehicles and pushing them over the cliff into the ocean. Last time I saw him was over 30 years ago.
Only american Indians would get a "pass". Non-Indians would be accused of the usual crap. To the enviro nuts, logic is meaningless, ideology (e.g. anything pursued in western civilisation short of reversion to paleolithic livig) is bad. The enviros would complain that only the Native Americans were "in tune with Mother Earth" and knew how to "take only what they needed" and other myths.
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
Until the white man, buffalo were the masters of the Plain.
wiz = Sound on prairie, made by buffalo.
Ahhh, the noble red man on his horse crossing the plains covered in thick praire grass.
Too bad that didn't happen until the Spanish brought the hourse over with them in the 1500s.
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