Reindeer: It's What Was For Dinner

Discovery Channel ^ | 12-20-2007 | Jennifer Viegas

[Verginius Rufus]

One reason why Santa never brought them presents...but not the only one.

[EggsAckley]

We were fed reindeer cold cuts for lunch on a Finnair flight from NY to Helsinki. I didn’t care for it.

[enough_idiocy]

Did they forewarn you what it was? On an Iceland air flight they gave us meatballs. I later learned Rudolph was the meat in the ball.

[Leo Carpathian]

According to Faith, when temperatures rose sharply after around 12,000 years ago, "reindeer became locally extinct and their southern boundary in Europe retreated northwards."

Paging Algore Manbearpig!
Must have been tooooo much exhausting CO2 coming out of raindears!

[muawiyah]

We just ate some reindeer in Bloomington, Indiana. The folks who've been raising them for family consumption (in secret) are coming out in the open and marketing their product.

Stuff tastes good ~ like it was made for the human system.

[SunkenCiv]

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[nicmarlo]

those were exactly my thoughts.

The more scarce the food, the more likely you would be to eat everything. The less scarce, the more likely you can be picky.

[nicmarlo]

Interesting; thanks for the ping.

[nicmarlo]

Not funny!

Poor Santa!!

[girlangler]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) You’re most welcome.

[Pelham]

I’m looking forward to a nice steak this Christmas Eve.

Come Dasher, come Prancer, come Donner and Blitzen...

[hunter112]

They still eat it in Iceland.

Finland, too. We once hosted a Finnish woman who was travelling with a group of Rotarians from there, all over Western Washington state. She had prepared some standard lines in answer to questions, like "What do you eat that is different there?" She started getting shocked looks when she said "Reindeer", to which she answered, "But ours don't fly!!"

[djf]

There was a show on PBS or something about some folks living in the far northern part of Russia near the Bering strait.

They are TOTALLY dependent on reindeer. The only thing that grows there is like this type of lichen or moss on the rocks. The only thing that will eat the crap is the reindeer.

So they have reindeer herds. And they use EVERYTHING from the animal when they slaughter it, probably even use reindeer spit for baby oil or somesuch.

[george76]

A go board ?

[Libloather]

Reindeer: It's What Was For Dinner

BBQ that sucka until it tastes good!