Reindeer: It's What Was For Dinner

Discovery Channel ^ | 12-20-2007 | Jennifer Viegas

[Responsibility2nd]

A moose bit my sister once.

She thought he was a reindeer. So she ate him.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

A Written Record?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Or another “natural formation?” :)

[squarebarb]

Could have been used as a grater or to smooth something. Grate husks off grains?

[enough_idiocy]

They still eat it in Iceland.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Early patent application for Rice Chex.

[raybbr]

"Conversely, if we see equal frequencies of all types of skeletal elements it suggests that carcasses were transported intact and that minimal butchery was taking place at the kill site," said Faith, a George Washington University anthropologist.

He determined that 64,600 years ago, the cave dwellers -- including Neanderthals -- only brought back the choicest reindeer cuts. The meat seemed to multiply over the years so that by 12,285 years ago, virtually all parts of the reindeer were being eaten, with the animals constituting 90 percent of large mammal game.

This suggests the reindeer population in the region steadily increased over the years, so the cavemen didn't have to travel far out of their homes to get a nutritious reindeer dinner.

I am having difficulty reconciling this.

If the meat was plentiful they would only take the choicest meat because it was so plentiful. It would seem that they would only take the whole carcass if the food was in short supply - or the human population took off and they needed all parts of the deer to support the tribe.

[RightWhale]

Reindeer sausage is available locally. Reindeer herds are allocated racially.

[Constitutional Patriot]

“They still eat it in Iceland.”

...and in NJ after a stint in Canada for a week or two...same goes for moose which, IMHO, is even better eating than “boo”.

[bert]

I learned recently there was a great experiment in Alaska to grow Reindeer as a cash crop. The problem was, the females ran off wifh the amorous and perhaps genetically superior wild caribou males.

[Emmett McCarthy]

OK, then, I’m staying up late Christmas Eve with a 30 .06. I’ll just wait until Santa’s gone down the chimney. That one with the red nose ought to be pretty easy to pop.

[Westlander]

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[mylife]

Yummy

[Westlander]

[444Flyer]

“That one with the red nose ought to be pretty easy to pop.”

Better watch out for that one, all of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names and where are they in history? LoL

[blam]

"They still eat it in Iceland."

So do the Sami.

The Sámi of Far Northern Europe

[AlaskaErik]

The pollen record for the region, which reflects past vegetation, shows ever-decreasing summer temperatures favored more and more reindeer, which thrive under cooler conditions. According to Faith, when temperatures rose sharply after around 12,000 years ago, "reindeer became locally extinct and their southern boundary in Europe retreated northwards."

Must have been about the time Fred Flintstone and his Neanderthal peers started driving those cars of theirs and caused the global warming of that era.

[redhead]

Reindeer is still a tasty meat. Very lean, but add a little suet, and it makes excellent sausage. Yum.

[redhead]

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