I like the fact that the Potted Meat Museum has Kerry/Edwards gifts for your dog...
I've had armadillo and found it tasty and lean, much like a very good cut of pork. I didn't find it greasy at all. It may have been how it was prepared. (It was definitely armadillo; I was there when my guide caught it). I think the concern with armadillo is that the meat may carry the pathogen for Hansen's disease (aka, leprosy).
Many of the other things mentioned in the article are normal ethnic food. A Norwegian breakfast buffet (at least, in Norway) is not complete without fish paste. I passed but the Norwegians are in general a remarkably fit and healthy people so perhaps they are on to something.
All North American mammals and birds are edible, however, they are not guaranteed to be palatable.
The reason the city is cracking down on these vendors seems less a matter of what they serve than one of licensing in the Bloomnanny empire.
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I like the fact that the Potted Meat Museum has Kerry/Edwards gifts for your dog...
Now, there's a headline I would love to see. It would be a helluva lot more good for New York and America!
Many years ago, a Chinese restaurant in NJ was caught serving road-kill venison, deer being quite numerous there. The radio news said they were serving "Moo Goo Gai Bambi" :) Another was serving cat meat, as I recall. I once gave a very fresh road-kill deer to a Laotian refugee family and they were glad to get it.
"Mmmmmmmm, illegal mystery meat."