I couldn't resist sharing the following scenario from "Steak Lovers' Diet".
 The faint of heart should not read it!

The mountain man (in this case, the Rocky Mountain fur trapper) ate almost
nothing but buffalo meat.  He took it fresh when he could, taking only his
favorite cuts...When he couldn't make fresh meat, he kept himself alive on
dried meat provided by the last buffalo he killed.  He stuck to
buffalo...mostly because mountain gourmets agreed that it was the finest
eating anywhere...A trapper (and Indians) would try to kill a buffalo cow
because they were fatter.  No mountain gourmet would pass up...the hump and
hump ribs...the boudins (buffalo guts), the liver, and the tongue.  Usually
the bones would be taken too, for marrow...Many mountain men would take the
liver immediately, dip it into the bile, and eat it raw...The crowning
glory (at the end of the feast on boiled hump and guts consumed alternately
with marrow and melted fat) would be the tongue - so soft, so sweet, and of
such exquisite flavor.

The boudins - guts - were a special treat.  A prominent fur trapper,
Ruxton, described the gusto applied to boudins: "I once saw two Canadians
commence on either end of such a coil of greasy boudins, the mass lying
between them...like the coil of a huge snake.  As yard after yard glided
glibly down their throats, and the serpent on the saddle cloth was
dwindling from an anaconda to a moderate size rattlesnake, it became a
great point with each of the feasters to hurry the operation, so as to gain
a march upon his neighbor and improve the opportunity by swallowing more
than just his just portion..."

The greasy viand required no mastication and was bolted whole!  The
mountain men consumed Bunyanesque amounts of meat at these feasts.  Six,
eight, and ten pounds of meat were the rule.  One of the properties of
rich, gamy buffalo meat was that no one's stomach objected to any quantity.
 And it was a good diet.  The mountain men and the plains tribes subsisted
on nothing else...They never had scurvy; it became commonplace that illness
was unknown in the mountains.

Cheers and good health to all,
Cory
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