Russians want to fry me kangaroo brown

[emad]

Russians want to fry me kangaroo brown
From Jeremy Page in Moscow



WHEN Soviet television briefly screened Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo, it was not much of a hit. Most Russians have never seen a kangaroo outside a zoo.

But today, Russians are rated the world’s greatest lovers of the Australian marsupial — just as long as it is minced up and turned into sausages.

Australia’s trade department has divulged that Russia now consumes almost one third of all its kangaroo meat exports, more than any other country.

Last year alone Russia imported about £6 million worth of Australia’s 35 million kangaroos, according to Australian trade statistics. The meat now accounts for more than half of all Australian exports to Russia. A handful of exclusive Moscow restaurants serve kangaroo steak, but most of the meat ends up being turned into sausages in Russia’s poorer Far East.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-1720238,00.html

[Strawman]

1. Don't tell that to these guys

[In_The_Wind]

2. I'll take a pass on that one .... but

kangaroo hide makes great boots

[sam sarrha]

3. im get'n me Roo Farm.. sounds like there's $$$ in those Kanger's

[interupt]

4. Tastes like Chicken!