On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Stuart Cooper wrote:
> > > SuSE has made it out of Europe and can be found down here, but is by no
> > > means popular.
>
> ?? It's popular with me. It may not sell as well as RedHat but you'll
> find that people who use it like it. I've counted about 10 proud SuSE
> users on the SLUG list; you don't hear from us as often as the debian users
> because <flamebait deleted>.
I've been running SuSE since 6.4, when I ditched Deadrat because of its
unreliability around the 6.0 release.
I'm perfectly happy with SuSE. Any problems with it are due to my
stupidity, not the distribution.
> > What about barbied roo?
>
> Prohibitive food laws prevent Australians from enjoying more of their local
> fauna. A few very fancy and expensive restaurants serve kangaroo meat
> ("it tastes like chicken" say most people; and the movie "The Matrix") but
> because of our laws most of it has to be used for non-human purposes.
There's actually a very good reason for that - most wild versions of
edible Australian animals are heavily worm infested - including Kangaroo,
Emu and pig - and eating the wild versions is taking a risk. While hunters
will do it - especially in the cae of pig or boar - no sane resturant
would risk the legal problems this would cause.
> Kangaroos are not as far as I know farmed for their meat but have to be
> culled at various farms where they are a nuisance and eat the crops.
You're quite wrong. All Kangaroo meat eaten in Australia is farmed -
however, those farms make _much_ more money selling it offshore, hence the
scarcity locally. Ditto for Emu, which isn't quite as tasty.
If you're looking for places to get Kangaroo steaks - try any Leonards
Poultry shop {yes, I know it's not poultry - they sell it anyway} - I know
for a fact the one at Eastgardens {South Sydney} sells Kangaroo fillet.
Also, there's a butcher {Bushes meats, I think} in St Ives Chase on the
north shore which sells similar.
Basically, any store which sells "game" meats like venison, goat etc will
usually have Kangaroo, and possibly even Emu.
The trick to Kangaroo is to not overcook it - medium rare at _most_ is
what you want - I tend to prefer closer to rare - and it's great for
women, since it's about twice as high in iron as cows meat.
And that's hoperfully my last off-topic post for this year. At least it
had _some_ Linux content. :-)
DaZZa
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