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

[Philip & Susan Troy]

First off, have my posts been failing to wrap at 72 characters? Naughty
Mozilla! Somebody please let me know if this is the case... they appear
sometimes not to wrap for me when composing, but when I get them back
via the list, they usually do. But then the below did not, so, I should
be wondering.

Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
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>>Laura C. Minnick wrote:
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>>>I gotta say it...
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>>>			"A Moose bit my sister once..."
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>>>'Lainie
>>>;-P
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>>More poignant than Kaufman & Hart's "A penguin bit me!" for being true, rather than fictional. For some reason I'm reminded of an experience in the Adirondacks of a few years ago, in which my brother, the Indiana Jones of light-tackle anglers, and I were walking along a trail called something like, "Moose Alley". He mentioned that no moose had been seen in that area for 150 years. I noticed some large footprints. He mentioned that no moose had been seen there in 150 years. I noticed some large droppings. He mentioned no moose had been seen there for 150 years. I asked what they were. Not deer. Not bear. Any horses in the area? Nope. And if you were thinking of moose, there haven't been any in this area for 150 years. With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, I spotted the four closely-placed trees off to one side of the path. The dark mass above the trees snorted out a discreet cloud of fog in the morning mist, as if to say, "I beg your podden." The trees bent at the knees a
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>>I respectfully submit that moose _do_ occur at least slightly south of
>>Minnesota and Wisconsin. Within the last 150 years.
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>>Adamantius
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> And red wolves are extinct in the Adirondacks. Never mind that one gets
> shot every couple of years by some paranoid farmer.
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> Actually, I know mooses are in NY. One of my college buddies had a brother
> what hit one. Similar situation from the police "Couldn't have been a
> moose. There haven't been moose around here for years."


My older [another] brother and my father witnessed an incident at the
Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn many years ago, probably before 1950. It
was around November 15th, and there was this large brown bird with a
sort of fanned tail, rather fat, with a red comb hanging down. It said
"Gobble gobble." Another child-and-father couple are looking at it. Kid
sez, "Ooh, lookit the turkey." Father sez, "It says on the sign that
it's a Silver Pheasant-- habitat: China." "Looks like a turkey to me."
"Gobble." "Chinese Silver Pheasant!" Turkey!" "Pheasant!" "Gobble
gobble!" "Turkey!" "Chinese Silver Pheasant, an' one more word outta you
an' I'm gonna..."

etc.


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> [OB food content: So if moose is a native European species, we could serve
> moose at a feast. Imagine spit-roasting an entire moose...]

If they had not become extinct in Europe in period. Actually, I STR they
existed in Ireland at some point; they would probably do that potboiler
thing with the hot rocks. On the other hand, their presence as a known
concept might not indicate that they were there and could be eaten. For
example, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial has some drinking horns taken from
the aurochs, which is believed to have been extinct (and may have been)
by the approximate time of the burial (7th-8th C. C.E.?)

BTW, there's a wonderful encounter with an aurochs in Lindsey Davis'
"The Iron Hand of Mars", still my favorite of the Didius Falco novels...

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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