Maybe he’s a cannibal and likes New Zealanders.
Look at his username and beware! :eek:
It’s definitely a regional thing.
When I lived in the San Francisco Bay area, goat meat was easy to find (it’s very common in Indian food) - here in Montana you really have to look for it.
Lamb has been easy to find everywhere I’ve lived, as has goose and “buffalo” (American bison).
Most big cities I’ve visited in the U.S. have at least one cajun/creole restaurant where you can get alligator. I’ve had rattlesnake in Arizona and one specialty restaurant in California.
Here in Montana, elk and ostrich jerkey are everywhere, and I’ve been to plenty of barbeques where elk, deer, and antelope (pronghorn) were served. The local steakhouse has bison on the menu all the time, and elk is a special at least once or twice a month.
My Vietnamese friends tell me that you can buy dog in the open markets there, just like fish or chicken.
An Aussie buddie tells me kangaroo meat is fairly easy to find where he used to live.
When I visited Tanzania, one of the restaurants we visited served zebra steak. It was tasty.
I think the original question boils down to the four meats mentioned being (a) plentiful, (b) cheap, and © what kids in the U.S. get used to eating as they grow up. Us carnivores know there’s a lot more out there if you look for it.
“Lettuce isn’t food. Lettuce is what food eats.”
Should have pointed out that I’m referring to the U.K. where this still holds AFAIAA - just a historical oddity.
I live there; my next question will be: if Barnacle Geese are still classified as fish who is it that still considers this classification valid?, I could imagine that maybe some religious folks might still hang onto the classification as it would mean they can eat it on Fridays (although even that seems unlikely), but DEFRA (formerly the Min of Ag) won’t be perpetuating any such nonsense.
Would dolphins, seals, whales and other such aquatic mammals be considered meat?
Hmmm… actually maybe I imagined it; I’m sure he does farm four different species of exotic bird though - maybe the fourth is cassowary or something?
Yes. Inuit and other northern peoples have eaten whale meat for centuries.
Please check. If is Kiwi, tell him the Department of Conservation will be right over to poke him with ponty sticks.
Seriously Kiwi are endangered here…there would be riots in the streets if Poms were eating them!
Maybe we will take it out on the Lions…just incase 
I doubt it. Cassowaries are protected too.
Is venison still being marketed in New Zealand under the title cervena?
I think the question is whether it’s concerned meat for the purpose of the Roman Catholic restriction on eating of meat on Fridays. That’s the only context for which I am aware that it is relevant that barnacle geese are/were considered to be fish.