BEAVER MEAT TRIED IN LONDON
LONDON. A British restaurant recently produced for faint-hearted customers an encyclopaedia to persuade them that beaver meat is good eating. In the encyclopaedia, beaver was described as “a fastidious creature, subsisting on watercress and the bark of better-tasting trees.” But customers are fastididous creatures, too. Some of them told the restaurant keeoer they could still taste the swamp in the dish, and preferred to subsist on anything else—even sneek (South African barracuda), or kabbeljou (Dutch codfish), neither of which have been very popular in Britain.
Several months ago, beaver meat was served experimentally in the House of Commons restaurants, but «ome members objected to its dollar cost.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 2
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