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They are basically an under water cow

They are basically an under water cow

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It would be terrifying farming them. Like Jurassic Park

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Pigs aren't naturally friendly either. You'd have to domesticate it.

[–] • 7 pts

All that time living in Africa, several species of large and potentially docile animals to domesticate for food or beasts of burden and niggers did nothing.

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In this case they get a pass, hippos kill more people than any other animal on the planet. Imagine a creature as aggressive as a bull and about 4 times the size and they seem docile in the water until they charge and Gore and flatten you.

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Pretty sure more of them get eaten by hippos than tigers or lions.

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Because there's a whole continent of other delicious animals that you can treat as livestock that won't kill you in numerous horrible ways. Hippos are nasty, aggressive creatures.

As well as the logistics of suddenly having a huge carcass that needs to processed right away. Butchering a cow is hard work, now think of how much more effort would be needed to deal with the additional mass of skin, bones, organs, and the meat of a hippo. All before it spoils.

This doesn't even begin to address the issues of attempting to manage live hippos before getting to the slaughterhouse.

Hippos are hunted for sport though -- google says the meat tastes like beef but gamier.

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Not enough hippos. Difficulties in managing hippos in deep water, which they need. Basic raging, homicidal fury of hippos, who will attack anything that moves and try to bite it in half (which they usually succeed in doing). I mean, Nile crocodiles run when they see hippos coming. Those fuckers are bad-ass.

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I went to a burger restaurant where lots of "exotic" meats could be chosen and I think ground hippo was one of them

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I always wonder how much of that ground exotic is actually the critter they claim it is. I bought some ground venison and it doesn't taste like any venison I've ever had before.

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Farmed venison tastes different

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Yeah it's always possible. Had an ostrich burger too once lol

I do think they have to add fat from other animals into the leaner ground animals.

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It's probably spices. There is something really wrong with the tastebuds of white people in north america. I have tried a lot of cured meat produced by artisans of all kinds and the product is always awful in ways that i cannot even begin to describe. It's like a deaf person using stick vibrations to listen to a Bach concerto and then deciding to write their own music.

Outside of bbq. That is the only thing white people in north america know how to spice. Everything else, holy shit.

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We don't need spices, our taste buds are so much more advanced, we can actually taste the flavor of the food without spicing it up

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Those awful white people... the world would be so much better if they were just all gone suddenly right? Just say it.

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These I bought from New Zealand but the same principle could very well apply.

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American Step 1: Drown it in sugar.

Step 2: Add more sugar until the underlying flavor is unrecognizable

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Pig. Underwater pig. Underwater cows are whales.

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Underwater cows are manatees they even call them sea cows.

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I resemble that remark.

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Barbara?

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  • AKSHUALLY * ... ahem ... manatees are underwater elephants.

Hehe! Actually, I'm not kidding. I read they are related to elephants and event have elephant toe structure in their flippers. I was mostly kidding about whales being underwater cows because they evolved way before cows, but I think they share the same ancestor. I saw a video once of someone trying a grilled whale steak and he said it was basically a regular cow steak that tasted fishy, so who knows. Biologists keep on talking about hippos being related to some distant ancestor of pigs, but I don't really know.

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Surprised how no one mentioned they were very nearly introduced to the american south to become a staple.

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They are extremely large and extremely territoriality aggressive. These properties make them undesirable game for consumption, as even if you kill one you'll have a very hard time retrieving your kill

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You want to try wrangling a hippo? Be my guest.

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Probably taste like whale meat. Supposedly they're related evolution-wise.

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