January 28, 2005
Ostrich Meat
Last night, I went out for compulsory drinks with the people in my department at work. We had ostrich, which was a first for me. It was minced, made into small meatball-things and then put into nabe, which is a kind of broth with meat and veg. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it was decent - a little like good quality hamburger meat. I can now add ostrich to the list of odd animals I have eaten, which currently includes snake and horse (raw, no less - I must have been drunk when I agreed to that).
Ostrich?(LINK)
We had a somewhat interesting conversation about the differences between ostriches and emus. In Japanese, ostrich is dachou, and emu is gachou, and most of my younger colleagues thought that they were basically the same animal. The older guys could not believe this, and wondered what they had been taught in school! For their benefit, and the benefit of any other confused readers, I have found some info on emus and ostriches. Both are apparently ratites!
Can't accuse GBB of lacking educational content, now, can you!
Emu?(LINK)