Forget a new name, just show the pic of the meat theyre about to eat! MM
Posted on 11/14/2005 9:27:25 AM PST by kingattax
Sydney - Australia has launched a competition to find a new way of describing kangaroo meat which will be less offensive to diners sensitive about eating the national symbol.
Organisers point out that a slice of cow or pig on a plate is called by the more palatable euphemisms of beef or pork, and want to find a similarly savoury name for cute kangaroos.
Kangaroo meat sales have grown 50-fold in the past decade to create a $200m a year industry, with Europe a major export market for the low-fat red meat and Russians lapping it up in sausages.
But Australians have been reluctant to eat an animal so closely linked to the national identity, and most kangaroo meat consumed locally is in the form of pet food.
The competition to find a new name for the meat has the support of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia.
"We don't eat cow or pig - the industry for a long time has been saying why do we eat kangaroo?" said chief executive John Kelly.
The organisers said there were more than 300 words for kangaroo and its meat in Aboriginal dialects and suggested entrants give one of those words a "sexy twist".
Hundreds of names have already been put forward, including "Skippy" (the name of a favourite TV kangaroo character), "Yummy" and "Kanga" - none of which stand a chance of success, the Australian newspaper reported.
The industry's national quota for culling kangaroos in 2005 is 3.9 million animals, a number described by some wildlife activists as a cruel slaughter but defended by the industry as necessary to keep down booming kangaroo populations.
Remember the EMoo fade?
Those must be gooey sausages.
Somebody actually though 'Skippy' would be a possibility?!
I vote Hoppy or Boxer. Maybe even Pouch.
Boomer Burgers
A name to make people happy to see a tailed biped dead... "Barney?"
Well, it's like naming dolphin "Mahi-Mahi" so some squeamish yahoo won't get upset.
Steak-a-roo?
Pooh Burgers.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Forget a new name, just show the pic of the meat theyre about to eat! MM
How about "cute kangaroo flesh?"
Giant marsupial range-rodent burgers?
Roo-4-You patties?
Burgeroos?
Pita-Pouch-Pockets?
The Other, Other Red Meat.
Better-than-wombat-burgers.
Non-platypus franks.
Save-the-kangaroos by eating some, today!
Kangaroos hate beer and soccer. Eat them before it is too late.
Definitely BURGEROOS.
Eastern Grey = Macropus giganteus
Red kangaroo = Macropus Rufus
Western Grey = Macropus fuliginosus
Or gobbling, or snarfing, or some other form of mastication :-).
Well, if you translate "the steer, the pig, the chicken, and the sheep" into French, you get "le boeuf, le porc, le poulet, et le mouton". A retired classics professor explained to me that the English nobility spoke French at a time when the common people spoke a Saxon tongue that eventually mutated into English. Since the nobility would more often deal with the meat of animals, while the commoners would more likely deal with the animals themselves, this led to the distinction now observed in English, where the meat from steers, pigs, chicken, and sheep are referred to as beef, pork, poultry, and mutton.
Not sure how that helps here, though, since "kangaroo" in French, Spanish, German, Italian, or Portuguese is still basically "kangaroo".
Well, a restaurant in North Carolina serves "'roo burgers", but perhaps "marcies" [short for marsupials] could work.
Po-Go Pouches
Hoppin'burgers
Just-eat-an'-don't-ask-burgers
Original Jackalope Patties
Not-Snakeburgers
Hop Dogs
Mar-Soup n' Sandwich
Jumpin' Beef
Hoppin' Hog
Eco-Balance Burgers
Skip-Wich
Skippy the Sandwich
Barbie Bouncers
Hop-Baloney
Salamaroo
Big Shrimp, with hair
DoDo
WallaBurgers
The Un-Camel
Super-Pheasant
Chicken of the Outback
Tastes Just Like Tortoise-Burgere, only even better
BigBunny
Fast Pork
LOL, too funny!
It is...But I'm not ready to eat it regardless
I tried a 'roo burger. Tasted like a hamburger that sat on my George Foreman for too long.
Ooooo...I knew I'd miss the good one.
I should never eat Tasmanian Devil-burgers before I type.
Uh-Oh!
Anything would taste worse after George Foreman sat on it.
I guess being named for a hunk of meat is better than being named for a wild shot.
Female Kangaroo ???.......How's bout:
Coochie Coochie Roo .........:o)
Bouncing Betty
LOL !
Patsy in a pouch !
Marsupial Maggie !!
Ahem!
OK...Flyer Filet's it is .........:o)
Giant Mouse-with-a-pouch Burgers.
YUM!
(well, it works for me....)
Ah, Flyer, are you, er, female?
Pouch Pooch
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