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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by dwcnnnghm on Monday August 26, 2024 @02:22PM (#41360086)
Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird. There’s not many stories or symbolism with green pheasants (as opposed to, say, cranes) and it’s mostly known in the country as food. I’ve seen it argued that it was selected because it’s delicious (though the official line seems to be their ability to recognize earthquakes)
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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by Ichthypresbyter on Monday August 26, 2024 @04:01PM (#41361246)
>Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird.

Pakistan and Gibraltar both have national birds that are partridges (the chukar and the Barbary partridge respectively).

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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by seszett on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:37PM (#41360956)
> Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird

France's national bird is the rooster, it's not really a game bird but it's definitely eaten.

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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by paranoidrobot on Monday August 26, 2024 @03:02PM (#41360532)
The animals on Australia's coat of arms: Emu and Kangaroo, are both able to be eaten. The Emu is our national bird.

I don't know if they're technically game meats but I can buy them both commercially. Kangaroo meat is in most supermarkets, and Emu in speciality butchers.

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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by sien on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:47PM (#41363645)
You can get a 'Coat of Arms Pizza' at the Australian Heritage Hotel in Sydney

"half emu & half pepper kangaroo, slow roasted tomato, charred peppers, lemon myrtle mayo"

It was good the last time I had it.

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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by technothrasher on Monday August 26, 2024 @10:34PM (#41364120)
When I was in Namibia and saw oryx on the menu at a restaurant, I ask them if they really ate their national animal. The waiter's response was, "oh, heck, no. These oryx are from South Africa!" Touché.
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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by darth_avocado on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:00PM (#41363365)
> Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird.

India’s national bird is the Peacock. It is a type of pheasant and was historically a game bird that was a common delicacy, especially for the rich. It is now illegal to hunt peacock in India, but people still get it in the black market.

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Re:Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews o... by yongjik on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:07AM (#41364703)
(Off-topic?) Not talking about the pheasant, but I once read that the Japanese used to eat cranes (presumably the same kind shown in JAL logo), and even offered them as delicacy to a group of Korean ambassadors, who were horrified, because cranes were considered a symbol of Confucian virtue in Korea and nobody ate them.
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