Wild Delicacies

Australian have millions of cats that reverted to the wild state, as from domestication. These feral cats are consider as a nuisance as they killed millions of small native animals each year.

So a nothern territory woman came up with a novel plan to stop these cats from driving other animals to extinction. How? By making wild cat stew.

During a recent Alice Spring contest, a woman prepared a cat stew for the judges to taste saying preparing this unusual stew seems simple enough.

The meat should be diced and fried until it is brown. Then lemon grass is to be added along with salt and pepper and three cups of quandong, which is a sweet desert fruit.

It is recommended that the dish be left to simmer for five hours before being garnished with bush plums and mistletoe berries.

The meat is said to taste like a cross between rabbit and, perhaps inevitably, chicken. But one of the judges found the meat incredibly tough and had politely asked to be excused and spitted it out in the backroom. If I'm one of the judges, I wouldn't even put it near my mouth.

Source : BBC News

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