Watching Equater: Challenge of Change on DISHD, part of which profiled the Great Rift Valley and the Wildebeests’ annual migrations, just wondered if it is comparable to venison, buffalo, whatever, super gamey, inedible? Do locals eat it?
I’ll second this. I ate a bit of wildebeest at a restaurant in Jacksonville, FL that specializes in exotic meat (don’t remember the name). It was sliced very thin and beaten to an inch of its life to tenderize it, but it didn’t help much. It reminded me of well done steak, and at least I can say I’ve eaten wildebeest.
Sounds like it would be most palatable in ground form.
:mad: ::Snorts::
::Paws ground::
::Lowers horns::
I haven’t had it. I’ll look for it when I’m inclined to try something new.
No.
I hate gnuvelle cuisine.
I have, in Africa.
It was a lot like Venison, and was good. It was fresh–maybe the Florida one dried out from being frozen, because it wasn’t all that dry, but not as fatty as beef here in the US.
We also had Warthog at one point, which was also good–not as fatty as pork, but very like it, which won’t surprise you.
Impala is kind of like goat.
(I was there for 5 years, didn’t eat all these at once.)
The chicken we had was, oddly enough, not extremely like chicken here–much drier and stringier. The beef was good, but we noticed a real difference when we fianlly came back to live in the states–the beef here tastes almost like there’s an additive. Hormones? Grain feed instead of grass? Don’t know.
Most meat we had was brai-ed (what we could call an open barbecue here in the US) (not sure of the spelling), with salt and spices.
Braaied. A BBQ in SA is a braai. BBQ meat is braaivleis . Pronounced br-eye, and br-eye-fl-ace.
I’ve had wilderbeest, because I’m game for anything. Didn’t like it. It’s my considered opinion that, when it comes to dinner, no gnus is good gnus.
The best way to eat wildebeest is to be out on the Serengeti and catch the slow ones as they try to cross a stream or river.
Umm, that’s some good eating!