Mooses [was Re: [Sca-cooks] Regretable foods.... OOP]

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, johnna holloway wrote:

> Actually probably the folks who live in Alaska can
> occasionally get moose lips. There are lots of signs
> posted on the road between Palmer and Wasilla as to
> what the annual moose-auto collision number is up to..
> Moose would make really large roadkill or maybe it's
> the vehicles that get killed.
> Johnnae llyn Lewis
> Johnna Holloway

Moose are native as far south as Minnesota and Wisconsin. Moose are
large. Moose are very very large. Even small moose are large. ;-)

Cars don't always survive encounters with whitetail deer, and very few of
them run above 200 lb. Mooses can weigh up to 1400, and be 8 feet high at
the shoulder.

Moose are native to Northern Europe and Scandanavia as well, and probably
could be considered period game (although they may have just called them
"deer"). Jellied moose nose is probably not period, though. ;-)

Fun moose facts:

http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/forestfriends/moose.html

A friend of mine originally from An Tir tells a story in which he'd been
stopped at a wayside somewhere in An Tir or possibly Oertha and watched a
very curious bull moose *roll* a small car from one end of the parking lot
to the other. Apparently he liked the color or something.

Margaret, who is really bored this morning and thus looking up mooses