It looks like they’re canceling the Mufasa Feast according to their Facebook page:
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.
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?
Bummer, it’s a shame they don’t put more pride in their tacos.
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.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Huh. Sure are, according to Wiki. “Caribou” even redirects to “Reindeer.”
You think lion tacos are bad? In Hawaii, they make coffee out of them.
I don’t think I’d like coffee made out of any kind of tacos, lion or not.
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.
And I was expecting a further evolution of kopi luwak.
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.
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.