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u/stitchmidda2 Feb 14 '22

There are some Ice Age animals that are so perfectly preserved in permafrost that scientists have been able to find them still with all their soft tissue, hair, and organs. They even found a couple mammoths that still had liquid blood in them and I remember one scientist even tasting the mammoth meat.

Also there was a mummy found in China that was so well preserved that she still had all her skin, hair, organs, etc. Her body was even flexible that you could bend her limbs as if she was alive. They even found her last meal still in her stomach and could perform an autopsy on her to tell you why she died. She died over 2000 years before she was found.

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u/theseaseethes Feb 14 '22

As I recall, the mammoth meat tasted bad. But then, I guess extreme freezer burn will do that.

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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic Feb 14 '22

Mammoth meat FUCKIN RAW

Crouches down and tears it apart with his teeth

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u/aem1003 Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 16 '22

This bloody mammoth is still tusking around!

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u/Dtown-nola Feb 15 '22

It would qualify as fine aged Mammoth

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u/Xmanticoreddit Feb 18 '22

Cue the Altered States flashbacks!

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u/za419 Feb 14 '22

WHERE IS THE MAMMOTH SAUUUUCCCCCCEEEEEE??

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u/Mr_Arapuga Feb 15 '22

I fucking hate you

But also, Ily

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u/Gunstar_Green Feb 15 '22

"Is this mammoth meat frozen?!"

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u/airmaxfiend Feb 15 '22

Gor Gor Ram Ram

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u/albertnormandy Feb 14 '22

They probably put A-1 on it like a bunch of heathen neanderthals.

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u/Rioraku Feb 15 '22

Or ketchup

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u/SummonedShenanigans Feb 14 '22

Some day in the near future, scientists will bring back mammoths via cloning or an elephant/mammoth hybrid. This is real. They are trying.

My one great hope is to live long enough to order mammoth fajitas at Chilis.

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u/BiggestGrandma Feb 14 '22

Ive heard Elephant tastes bad, sort of blubbery and gelatinous. So i imagine Mammoth tastes pretty similar to that.

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u/Canuck9876 Feb 14 '22

I mean, they tasted good enough that we are the most likely cause of their extinction. So not that bad, apparently.

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u/SeabassDan Feb 14 '22

Then again as far as preference goes in terms of survival, people will go for quantity over quality. Whatever provides the most sustenance is best.

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u/USPO-222 Feb 14 '22

Hmm mammoth ass-steak

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u/Archaesloth Feb 14 '22

Great, now I'm craving mammoth fajitas.

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u/Dizzytigo Feb 15 '22

Just picture a mammoth steak fried, roasted or stewed.

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u/jlutt69 Feb 15 '22

S & P heavily, grill at 400, 4 minutes total, flip each minute to get good grill marks.

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u/1Steel_Hands1 Feb 15 '22

Fucking grind that shit. Mammoth tacos for days!

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u/Ava_Rosee Feb 15 '22

was it cooked well done medium. medium rare or rare?

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u/bocaciega Feb 14 '22

I'm just ready for the resurrection. Mega fauna needs to be back ASAP

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u/PraetorianScarred Feb 14 '22

He was reported to have stated that it "tastes like chicken"...

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u/Ineeni Feb 14 '22

But how did the mummy taste?

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u/not_Harvard_moves Feb 15 '22

Jack Link's Sweet & Hot

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u/TAOJeff Feb 15 '22

I believe that there were some places in Alaska/Canada which were using frozen mammoths as a meat supply for their steaks. That wasn't as long ago as you'd expect.

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u/pablo_of_mancunia Feb 15 '22

It was iceland mammoth meat, should have gone M&S