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It's Christmas! Have a little more bat meat!
2006-12-24
Posted by:anonymous5089

#5  or I would shoot some rabbits.

My pagan friends always serve rabbit for Easter. If it weren't so expensive, they'd serve reindeer for Christmas dinner.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-24 20:04  

#4  For 25 years our little tradition was to catch our own Christmas dinner. We were always camping out in the bush, so usually we would catch some fish, or I would shoot some rabbits.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-12-24 18:47  

#3  Just remember to pass on the "long pig" or hairless goat, and you'll be just fine!
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-12-24 17:54  

#2  Merry Christmas everyone. It's 4AM on Christmas Day here.

On the subject of unusual Christmas fare. I once spent Christmas day in a Dayak Longhouse in the interior of Borneo. Woken by the sound of squealing pigs being slaughtered. Every family (there were about 40 in the longhouse) had a pig in a cage out the back (BTW everything is on stilts 20 feet above the ground). Pigs are cut up and roasted in pit fires. Men sit around fire scorching pieces of fatty pig skin as a breakfast snack washed down with Arak. Insisted I join them. None of them spoke English and it's real hard to politely refuse when you don't have a language in common (our Dayak speaking guide wasn't around for some reason).

I put aside my fear of parasites and managed to get some of the almost raw pig skin and fat down with plenty of Arak as a lubricant.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-12-24 14:09  

#1  One of the fun things in Asia is the food. If you can get past what animal it is, usually it ain't so bad. I only had two hard and fast rules, it had to be cooked and no bugs!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-12-24 10:45  

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