Superbly interesting quote.  Could you tell us the author, title, publisher,
date of publication?   Best thanks    Geoff   [log in to unmask]
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From: Stan and Cory <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, September 25, 1998 12:48 AM
Subject: [P-F] Steak Lover's Diet


>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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