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The Christian Science Monitor reports
Nashville residents who dropped by their local Arby's beginning [the week of November 2] could try the restaurant's limited-time-only venison, or deer meat, sandwich, which the fast-food chain debuted in commemoration of the beginning of deer hunting season.
[...] Many of the Arby's locations that are selling the sandwich are located in more populous or urban areas rather than rural areas where one might expect people to hunt. But Evan Heusinkveld, the president and CEO of the Sportsmen's Alliance, tells The Christian Science Monitor that the urban population is exactly the group that should have the opportunity to try venison.
"Many people who live in the country either have their own freezer of venison or know somebody who hunts", he says, "Selling to city dwellers is exactly what the hunting community would love to see."
While Arby's venison is sourced from farm-raised deer in New Zealand due to USDA rules against serving wild-harvested meat, it will still give customers a taste of what they're missing. The sandwich features a juicy venison steak, crispy onions, and juniper berry sauce.
Arby's venison sandwiches will be offered in just 17 locations in six states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia) during deer season, with the promotion ending the Monday after Thanksgiving.
So far, the company says the sandwich has been a big hit.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday November 07 2016, @05:15PM
And if it is too 'gamey' tasting for the kids (and baby adults)
I find our modern cuisine preferences to be a bit baffling, frankly. Back in the days before refrigeration, I suppose half-spoiled meat was normal anyway. But the odd thing (to us today) is that they actually used to hang meat for much longer periods of time, resulting in a process the French called mortification. Yes, it made tough meats softer, but it mostly tended to enhance those "gamey" flavors.
Now we seem to value the "boneless skinless chicken breast," effectively a cut of meat designed to be as flavorless as possible.
The thing is -- kids are NOT born hating other stuff. It's amazing what you can feed to a toddler, if you don't present it as weird. My son was eating various organ meats and other offal at that age, as well as eating hearty strong-flavored vegetables like kale and bitter greens. He loved them.
Then he got old enough to realize that other kids didn't eat that stuff (and in fact would throw a fit rather than eating it). And he got old enough to realize that other ADULTS around him also often weren't fans (in fact, even his other parent often was a bit skeptical of the offal). So he chose to imitate the majority and then wouldn't eat a lot of what he used to love.
Still, today, in many traditional cultures around the world, things like organ meats (which often are more "gamey" and have stronger flavors, in addition to being more nutritious) are highly prized, often given to respected elders at meals and young kids for their nutrition. Kids happily lap such stuff up, because they know how special it is. But much of Western culture has upheld the chicken "nugget" instead....
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday November 08 2016, @02:02AM
My mother-in-law tells us of very often taking egg salad sandwiches to lunch with her to school.
No refrigeration at the school or at home.
She'd eat lunch, and then sometimes be throwing up out back of the school. A lot of kids did that (farm country) and they didn't really realize why.
She lost her mother, her twin sister and some of her brothers to tuberculosis and had to take over raising the family at a young age (getting up early, milking cows, making breakfast, getting the young ones ready for school and then going to school herself, then coming home and making supper......
We are so wimpy today... "venison tastes yucky!". I'm starting to realize that other people have no restrictions on what they'll eat: horse, cat, dog, insects... food is food, and if something bad happens i'd better be prepared with recipes, lol.
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