Thursday, June 12, 2008

"Tastes like chicken!"

From The Incomparable Libby Purves:

Giraffe meat is kosher

4247631892israelirabbisaysgiraffemeThis is a giraffe. It's endangered. Don't eat it. However, if you're forced to in some unimaginable aircraft stranding calamity, and you are an observant Jew, be reassured that bizarrely, scholars have just worked out that because of its hooves and the curds formed by its milk, the giraffe is kosher. It is ritually pure. Also very tall.

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