# Lion Tacos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444 "2011-01-21T13:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/41 "2011-01-25T03:10:10Z")
It looks like they’re canceling the Mufasa Feast according to their Facebook page: > **[BOCA by Chef Maria Mazon](https://www.facebook.com/bocatacos/)** > > BOCA by Chef Maria Mazon, Tucson, Arizona. 6,102 likes · 29 talking about this · 12,838 were here. From Our Kitchen To Your BOCA, we serve gourmet Mexican tacos and original salsas made fresh... ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/42 "2011-01-25T03:25:30Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > There’s an interesting double-standard people have.\* We can eat cows and pigs and chickens, even lambs and deer and bison. But _lions_? OMG!!! I don’t know what’s so different about it. There are deep cultural taboos (possibly even subconscious) against eating predators. Anecdotally, I’ve heard that toxins from everything below them on the food chain builds up in them and they’re just not very good for you. Beyond that, they are extremely important to the ecosystems they serve, and come in far smaller numbers than animals we tend to eat. It would be magnitudes easier to destroy an ecosystem by wiping out a small amount of predators than a huge number of herbivores, for instance. Now, you can retort with blah blah civilization, blah blah we can tame nature, but I’m telling you the ways things are. We’re animals. We have animals feelings that we aren’t necessarily aware of. I would not eat a lion. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/43 "2011-01-25T04:00:55Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Reindeer _is_ caribou. [Rangifer tarandus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer). Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. The article, though, seems to say that caribou is “the North American relative of reindeer.” It’s the same damned thing, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/44 "2011-01-25T14:47:32Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Maybe he’s blending lion with cheaper elephant, 50/50. Bummer, it’s a shame they don’t put more pride in their tacos. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/45 "2011-01-25T15:13:30Z")
The owner had to have seen the howls from the animal-lovers-without-the-ability-to-think-rationally crowd coming from a mile away. What a coward. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/46 "2011-01-25T15:44:00Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Bummer, it’s a shame they don’t put more pride in their tacos. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/47 "2011-01-25T15:45:56Z")
If you’re already blending it with elephant, why not skip the lion entirely and mix it with rhino? The only question is what should we call the taco? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/48 "2011-01-25T15:47:55Z")
This reminds me. There is a roadside food stand around here with the – _ **probably** _ – misspelled slogan “Porklion special”. This thread makes me wonder if it’s all pork. ---
**Author:** ![senpai71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@senpai71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senpai71)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/49 "2011-01-25T17:30:49Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Payton Curry, a zany chef here, was serving up a reindeer sampler at his [Cafe Boa](http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-12-23/restaurants/payton-curry-plays-reindeer-games/). It was $65 and offered from December 21 thru January 6. He got death threats, too, even after he admitted it was caribou. Reindeer is pretty common on the menu in fine dining establishments in some other countries (notably Sweden). I’ve had it, and it tasted GOOD 🙂 My daughter hated me for eating Rudolph, but she got over it. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/50 "2011-01-25T17:54:15Z")
I ate a jackalope sausage last week. It was a mix of bunny and antelope and was really good. Got it at Frank’s in Austin, a very hoppin place. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/51 "2011-01-25T19:30:21Z")
> [@senpai71](#): > > Reindeer is pretty common on the menu in fine dining establishments in some other countries (notably Sweden). I’ve had it, and it tasted GOOD 🙂 My daughter hated me for eating Rudolph, but she got over it. my goddaughters are bloodthirsty wenches…i serve rabbit and one easter i made a lovely batch of colored deviled eggs as garnish =) they loved it. it has become an easter favorite in my house ever since. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/52 "2011-01-25T21:07:56Z")
I had mountain lion Spaghetti with a trapper friend of mine. Gave me a slight case of the shits. The problem I see with eating African lions is that they are probably not raised for meat. Just a guess but I think what you would be getting would be older animals and failed pet projects. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/53 "2011-01-25T23:40:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. The article, though, seems to say that caribou is “the North American relative of reindeer.” It’s the same damned thing, isn’t it? Huh. Sure are, according to Wiki. “Caribou” even redirects to “Reindeer.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/54 "2011-01-26T02:51:55Z")
You think lion tacos are bad? In Hawaii, they [make coffee out of them](http://www.lioncoffee.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/55 "2011-01-26T14:22:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > You think lion tacos are bad? In Hawaii, they [make coffee out of them](http://www.lioncoffee.com/). I don’t think I’d like coffee made out of any kind of tacos, lion or not. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/56 "2011-01-26T21:05:10Z")
Well, well, well. It would appear that he was lion the whole time…or he really is that much of a coward that he would label himself a liar out of fear Disgaceful. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/57 "2011-01-26T21:08:47Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > You think lion tacos are bad? In Hawaii, they [make coffee out of them](http://www.lioncoffee.com/). And I was expecting a further evolution of [kopi luwak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak). ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/58 "2011-01-27T10:30:26Z")
So maybe those Lions head meatballs I’ve been eating at my local Chinese restauarnt…are actually lion? Or is the owner lyin?😉 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/59 "2011-01-28T03:51:44Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > So maybe those Lions head meatballs I’ve been eating at my local Chinese restauarnt..are actually lion? > Or is the owner lyin?😉 I’m sure they’re real. Along with those thousand-year eggs. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444/60 "2011-01-28T09:18:00Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion) says that lions are “Vulnerable,” if not “Endangered.” How does this not mean that they can’t be farmed (a horrible word, IMO)? The IUCN classification only applies to the wild population of a species. For instance, see Venus Flytraps, listed in their natural habitat, but \*very \*abundant in cultivation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lion-tacos/568444.md?page=4)