[R W Reactionairy]

Urban legend time?

As a kid I remember seeing a Ripley's Believe it or Not panel to the general effect that the Adventurer's or the Explorer's Club [not certain which] had actually served Mammoth meat that had been recovered in edible if not pristine condition from permafrost and transported to NY for a banquet. Truth or urban legend? [Non-hint: I don't know.]

If that report is true, had rare can it be to find bones that have not been scattered?

[blam]

"As a kid I remember seeing a Ripley's Believe it or Not panel to the general effect that the Adventurer's or the Explorer's Club [not certain which] had actually served Mammoth meat that had been recovered in edible if not pristine condition from permafrost and transported to NY for a banquet. Truth or urban legend? [Non-hint: I don't know.]"

I heard/read a similar tale. Except it was an English archaeologist/explorer who served the mammoth meat to his peers as he revealed the discovery.

Don't know if it's true or not.

[blam]

A number of references to the stories of eating mammoth meat here.

[jordan8]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mentions finds of frozen ancient animals that the Soviet press reported as being eaten by locals. He said that all former prisoners understood instantly upon reading these accounts that the "locals" who ate this ancient flesh were actually Zeks, starving prisoners in the gulag.