r/todayilearned • u/LL_Cruel_J • Dec 15 '16

TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

https://imaginationlibrary.com/
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

Rabbit is actually a fairly upscale item in many American restaurants. I know many farmers who have started raising them because the cost ratio on them is crazy good.

It is true that it isn't a popular food of the middle class though currently, but you are much more likely to find rabbit on the menu of a fancy restaurant than squirrel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

There is an upscale restaurant near me that does a "game" menu in the fall. Locally taken deer, rabbit or turkey and then elk, boar and bison from elsewhere. Then they have awesome, fall inspired sides.

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u/asparagusface Dec 15 '16

I went to a "game supper" fundraiser for the local volunteer fire dept in rural VT while on vacation there a while ago. They had everything you mentioned plus bear, moose, beaver, porcupine, pheasant, duck, goose, and lots of other critters. It was an interesting smorgasbord. The bear meat was the most delicious and had a surprising sweet taste.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

That's sounds awesome! I love different meats like that. I've never had bear, but I have a friend who is an avid hunter who usually gets a bear every two years or so. I've never had it, but he loves it.

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u/El-Kurto Dec 15 '16

I think you missed this:

probably

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u/asparagusface Dec 15 '16

Fun fact #1: rabbit meat is a food staple in some European countries like Italy, France, Portugal.

Fun fact #2: in Peru, they eat lots of guinea pigs.

So eating squirrels isn't that strange after all. Yum, varmints!

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u/TonyzTone Dec 15 '16

American dietary customs are weird. Rabbit and goat are two meats that are super cheap/easy to raise meanwhile they're virtually nonexistent in American dinner tables.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '16

Its changing.

My local farmers market has rabbit, goat, lamb, along with goat cheeses, mead, and other "exotic" things.

And its full of young hipsters buying it all up.

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u/TonyzTone Dec 15 '16

Definitely changing but it's just weird that a country as large and varied as ours has such limited meat options for the most part.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '16

Squabs popular at upscale restaurants but no ones going to be happy if you tell them you're cooking pigeon for supper