Some kind of continental market was in town...
I love these things.
We seem to have them every month or so in Lincoln.
The food is fucking brilliant! I don't even know if there is other continental stuff on. The olives filled with cheese and stuff, the french chocolate tart thingys, weird looking spicy sausages, the waffles covered in chocolate, etc etc. Yomm.
So one such weekend I decided to try something a bit different to my usual french chocolate stuff/scary sausage fare and go for some kind of burger. Not very exciting, but this stall promised crocodile burgers, buffalo burgers, ostrich burgers, and so on. But none of this homely ostrich and slightly unusual buffalo burger for me. Oh no, I thought, get an animal in a bun of the like you may never try again, think distance, I want the animal meat that came from the most exotic and faraway of places.
I saw the kangaroo burger.
OH yes.
2 minutes and £4 or so lighter, I wandered off with my fattening purchase, in a bun with just onions, so as not to take away from the taste of the marsupial meat concealed within.
I expected to taste kangaroo in every bite, I wanted this kangaroo burger to be so authentic it could direct me to little Timmy stuck down a well, such was the kangaroo-ness.

It kind of just tasted like a crappy beefburger.
Damn.
(Ryuken-Kai, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 2:14, 10 replies)

"Fattening purchase"
Kangaroo meat is actually pretty lean. I generally use it (or wallaby, which is similar) when I make spaghetti bolognese, because it tastes good and has way less fat than beef mince.

I fed some to some American housemates I had a couple of years ago and they were horrified when I told them what was in it (despite eating it with great gusto before learning that it was Skippy). Damn pansy seppos.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 3:51, closed)

I've only ever had roo meat once....
And that was a kangaroo shish kebab. It tasted like shit.
(Visionaryofthe1980s www.myspace.com/visionariesofthe1980s, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 4:05, closed)

you got ripped
Roo meat is AWESOME!

Edit: Not very continental though, unless you mean the Australian continent and not the rest of Europe as you Brit's refer to it.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 5:00, closed)

Apparently........
..... Australia is the only country in the world that EATS it's national symbols - both of them in fact. Kangaroo and the emu.

As for myself, I find 'roo meat a little too "gamey" in flavour.

Koala, now THERE is a meat worth salivating over.
(Only because it's not quite as sweet as platypus)

*edit*: That should have been animals on their COAT OF ARMS.
(Sir Jester, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 5:28, closed)

LOL!!
We feed kangaroo meat to dogs here in Australia ... honest.

We were just kidding when we suggested it to Jamie Olivier as the latest haute cuisine BIG THING.

Stupid bugger swallowed it hook line and sinker.
(Que?, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 8:57, closed)

Sir Jester;
Do the French not eat cock, nor the Spanish bull?

As for Kangaroo meat- I've not tried it, I'll see if it's available when the Continental (ie 90% French, 10% French Belgian) market rolls in next weekend.

Is it any worse than ostrich meat?
( Thinker, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 9:31, closed)

national animals
The Irish eat stag,
the greeks eat sheep,
and I'm pretty sure the Canadians eat beaver.
( Lord & Lady Pants, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 10:14, closed)

tasty
Kangaroo is actually pretty damn tasty although kangasteak stinks when yuo cook it.

and a little chuckle for canadians eating beaver :)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 10:37, closed)

as has been said, roo meat is very lean
the stallholder will most likely have mixed a fair bit of fatty pork in with it to stop it drying out during cooking. if you want the real taste of kangaroo, find the closest butcher to you that sells it and cook it yourself. that way, you know it hasn't been messed with.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 12:41, closed)

weirdo butchers
I've had rabbit and that is fucking nice... Ther butchers near here sells most meats. imma have to try them all in due course.
The chinese market sells rhino tho....think i'll avoid that one...it makes me feel funny.
(Ryuken-Kai, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 2:06, closed)