[Sca-cooks] Pompei poor eating giraffes??

[aruvqan]

On 1/3/2014 3:47 PM, JIMCHEVAL at aol.com wrote:
> Pliny the Elder probably knew Pompeii; he died there (trying to rescue
> friends). He says that the giraffe was seen "occasionally" in Rome, which
> argues  against it being a standard food item.
>
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I never claimed it was a standard food item, I am claiming that no 
animal wrangler in their right mind is going to haul a dead animal all 
the way from wherever to Rome, or do anything with a dead critter that 
doesn't have a carnivore in house to eat it other than figure out how to 
sell it off to make a few coins on the deal. Live animals can be used to 
display, dead animals lie there and start to stink. Obviously the 
wranglers were accustomed to selling off animals to butchers because I 
doubt the average Roman butcher was going to order animals from anywhere 
other than a local farmer. Sheesh.