Quote from: Julia1996 on January 03, 2019, 09:05:31 AM
I wouldn't doubt it. My boyfriend is Aussie and he's eaten some weird food. Kangaroo, ostrich, koala bear. I don't know if he was just messing with me about the koala. Koala and kangaroo! How could anyone eat something so adorable. 😢 Oh and I can't leave out vegemite! EWWWWW!
I don't know whether he was joking about the koala but I'm sure that he's kidding about the Vegemite. Nobody could eat that. Koalas do seem to appear on the menu in China, though:
Braised KoalaI suspect that if someone orderered the koala, it would be taken away for "butchering" and some other kind of meat would be served to the customer. Why kill a valuable live koala when it could be displayed over and over again? I HOPE that that is what would happen. I did see something similar on a street stall in Yorkshire, England. Customers had the choice of burgers made of beef, kangaroo or springbok (a Southern African antelope). I asked for a springbok burger. The one I was given just happened to be one of the two identical burgers that were being grilled at the time. I have no doubt that if I had asked for kangaroo, he would have given me the same burger.
Some menus are more believable than that of the Yorkshire street stall and I must admit that if I saw a real koala burger on offer, I would eat it. I prefer watching live wildlife but when I can't, eating it is as close to nature as I can get. From reliable sources, I have eaten elephant, giraffe, crocodile, Cape buffalo, ostrich, guinea fowl, kudu, blesbok, springbok, impala, kangaroo, wild boar, red deer, pheasant and swordfish.
If your boyfriend is missing koala, you might get this stuff for him if it becomes available again:
Canned Koala Meat .
If he doesn't eat it, you could at least add another koala to your plush toy collection. If you look at the picture with the can's contents list, you will see that the ingredients include "cuteness 100%".