"Dave Smith" ha scritto nel messaggio
> Matthew Malthouse wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:11:09 -0400, Dave Smith

>>> I just started reading a book about Attila the Hun, and the Huns, and it
>>> >>> tells an interesting tale about the possible origins of Steak
>>> Tartare. >>> I have to say that it made me wonder how anyone can eat it.
>>> According to >>> the book, the Huns used to lay chunks of meat under
>>> their saddles, >>> partly to cushion the horse's back. It picked up a
>>> lot of salt from the horse sweat. Eventually they would eat it.
>>> I may never again eat steak Tartare.
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>> But after a week riding the steppe it'd be far more beef jerky than>>
>> steak tartar.
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> Perhaps so, but the idea of using a chunk of beef as a saddle cushion >
> and sopping up all that horse sweat for a few weeks and then eating it >
> is enough to make me retch. . Thanks, but no thanks.

I call that a real stretch. I rather doubt there's much evidence for such a
conclusion. Wherever a steak tartare type dish exists, it's never in the
peasant cuisine, anyway, but usually very firmly attached to the platter of
the rich who can afford meat one is sure of.

I might attach the fermented mare's milk Kazak thing to Attila's hordes,
tho.
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