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by reichardt 1387 days ago
Austria—Schnitzel not kangaroo.
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The last time I was in Austria, all of the tourist shops had t-shirts with one of those Australian kangaroo crossing signs on it and the text "No kangaroos in Austria."
we have to. our country is confused for Australia so often, we just HAVE TO sell these shirts.
Yes. Not only once did shops in the US ship my stuff to Australia instead of Austria.
The two aren't at all mutually exclusive, just so you know!
Kangaroo schnitzel sounds intriguing but gamey.
No more than venison schnitzel. Lots of good recipes online.
And now that we're already totally off topic...does "gamey" actually mean anything other "having flavour that we're not inured to or been watered down to lowest-common denominator tastes?"
Perhaps, but there are many methods to make meat less gamey, and I suspect most of them was invented before the current blandness set in, which suggests it wasn't welcome in the old days either.
Supposedly it's related to iron content.

But I'm baffled at the Oxford definition returned by Google: "having the strong flavour or smell of game, especially when it is high". There are very similar definitions that use "tainted" or even "spoiled" instead of "high". I think I'd rather my roo steak tasting of marijuana than of rotten flesh.

Lets put another shrimp on the bar-b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hOLm_k6eCs