[Sca-cooks] medieval dog recipes

[Terry Decker]

Actually, Europeans did eat penguin in period.  Penguin was a term for the 
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), a flightless sea bird of the Northern 
Hemisphere.  The name was transferred to the unrelated birds of the Southern 
Hemisphere in the 18th Century.

Bear


> Drakes men ate Penguins, well within our period while circumnavigatring 
> the globe.  They were not in Antartica, they were on South America.  You 
> have to get around the cape to do that and that is pretty far down the 
> Southern Hemisphere.  It was actually on an island in the vicinity of the 
> cape.
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> Ranald De Balinhard