"Walter Traprock" > wrote in message
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> did people use to eat mammoth meat early last century? i've
> just read about being served mammoth meat by the Czar of Russia,
> meat dug up that's been frozen for thousands of years. there was
> no comment on the taste of he meat. book: sea devil's fo'c'sle,
> by lowell thomas (1929). OK, i'll quote all of it relating to mammoth:
>
> "and then there was mammoth's meat. It had been dug up in Siberia
> out of the ice, where it had been kept naturally refrigerated
> for thousands of years. Eating that ancient mammoth's meat is
> more common now, but then it was something new and startling."

One of my uncles ate mammoth meat they had uncovered...I think in Alaska but
it could have been Canada. This would have been in the early part of the
20th century. He said it was not very good eating. I still have a few bits
of tusk from that animal that he carved into tie clasps and such things.

Charlie