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Originally Posted by lukey86
HAHA yeah I'll leave that one alone, think I'll just stick to my Kangaroo Tail Soup (A real thing) and emu burgers  |
I have eaten both of those things in the US.
I ate them intentionally, but there was a time some before some of the youngsters here were born (late '70s, early '80s) when there was a big scandal about Australian beef being imported into the US. Seems the ranchers down there your way didn't like kangaroos grazing their land and competing with their livestock, so they would shoot them illegally, then have them butchered and packaged up as "beef" for North American consumption to hide the evidence. Hell, we didn't know the difference. It's a pretty good bet that any non-vegetarian over the age of 40 in the US has eaten kangaroo, whether they realize it or not.
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
I can run down to the local grocery store here and buy emu burgers. About two years ago I came close to hitting one on the highway. Scared the crap right out of me and I screamed "what the fuck was that?".
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There are still wild emu in some parts of the southern US where people decided to try to farm them when the emu burger fad hit, then just turned them all loose when the bottom fell out of the emu market.
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Originally Posted by Dake
Here in Texas, most highways have 70 mph speed limits once outside of city limits (65 inside) so you can safely do 75 to 80.
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Originally Posted by ToySub1946
Fastest speed limit I've observed in the USA (west Texas) is 80mph I believe...though online it states there is an 85mph limit some parts of Texas.
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Toll 130 between Austin and Seguin is 85 mph. I go that way when I have to go down to the coast. I set my cruise on 87 and am usually the slowest thing on the road for miles at a time.
The cops only come out there when someone hits a feral hog. Despite the obvious setup, that's not a cop joke. That's deep rural Texas, and for over 70 miles there's nothing out there but wild pigs. Fuel up before you go.