Mornin'!
Yep, I ate one of these for lunch yesterday. Our local diner started carrying them - can you imagine? It was delicious - sweeter than beef and much more tender than I had anticipated. There was info about the burger at the table, and would you believe that bison meat has more protein than beef and less than half the fat of an equal portion of CHICKEN? That's really something!
The bison burgers come from Canada - here's the website if you want to check it out:
www.northforkbison.com
I noticed that our new Wegman's grocery store is now carrying ground bison meat, so obviously people are starting to eat it.
It is still difficult emotionally for this former vegetarian to eat and recommend meat, but my genes give me no choice. On the paleo diet I feel tip top - without it, I have problems. Sigh. The genes rule the heart, in my case. Much to my chagrin.
Love,
Polly
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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
The beasts are technically bison, but North Americans have always preferred to refer to them as buffaloes. Back in the ninteenth century, when commercial bison hunting was a huge industry, the participants perferred to call themselves buffalo hunters, presumably because it just has a "cool" sound to it. LOL.
Buffalo Bill probably would never have made it to the big time, as a performer, if he had chosen to call himself "Bison Bill". He would have been forced to turn his act into a comedy routine, in order to be successful, because he would have been the laughingstock of the American West.
Love,
Wayne
Buffalo Bill probably would never have made it to the big time, as a performer, if he had chosen to call himself "Bison Bill". He would have been forced to turn his act into a comedy routine, in order to be successful, because he would have been the laughingstock of the American West.
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Yep, Bison is good and good for you. Deer is like that as well. More protien and leaner than beef. We have a rancher here in our part of the country that is rying to breed his cows to some Bison he has. It's good meat. That's why I don't complain when Mike Kills deer each year. Love Oma
May I be more compassionate and loving than yeterday*and be able to spot the idiots in advance
Polly,
I lost my trial dose of ground buffalo when we evacuated. Had let it sit in the freezer too long anyway, while I got up my nerve to try it, but a lady there in Whole Foods at the counter said the exact same thing about the taste -- sweet, and she liked it better than beef.
Did you think it was easier to digest?
Do you think it could be used, say, in place of hamburger or ground beef in spagetti, etc.
Have their been any documented cases of Mad Cow Disease in bison? I wonder if would be a safer option to beef if Mad Cow is on the increase?
Want to try it now, so do you think a burger patty would be the best way to initiate myself? What would you eat with it...condiments, et al?
Thanks for the tip! Yours, Luce
I lost my trial dose of ground buffalo when we evacuated. Had let it sit in the freezer too long anyway, while I got up my nerve to try it, but a lady there in Whole Foods at the counter said the exact same thing about the taste -- sweet, and she liked it better than beef.
Did you think it was easier to digest?
Do you think it could be used, say, in place of hamburger or ground beef in spagetti, etc.
Have their been any documented cases of Mad Cow Disease in bison? I wonder if would be a safer option to beef if Mad Cow is on the increase?
Want to try it now, so do you think a burger patty would be the best way to initiate myself? What would you eat with it...condiments, et al?
Thanks for the tip! Yours, Luce
Luce,
Be aware that regulations are currently going into effect which require birth-to death records on all domestic cattle, in order to address the risk of BSE, (mad-cow disease). Because of the bird flu, I believe these recordkeeping requirements have been extended to poultry, also. I'm not familiar enough with the regulations to know whether any other animals are included or not. Wild animals, of course, are exempt, (by default), and I would be surprised if a small niche market such as commercial bison producton has been monitored, though they may well be, in the future.
Though I'm just making a WAEG here, I'm pretty sure that all ungulates are susceptable to BSE, in one form or another. In wild deer, for example, it is known as chronic wasting disease, and it is a much more seriouis problem than BSE in cattle, because is it widespread in certain states, and it is impossible to control and treat wild herds. So far there are no documentated cases of chronic wasting disease migrating to humans, but it may just be a matter of time before this happens. Bison are not deer, of course, but they are certainly ungulates.
Tex
Be aware that regulations are currently going into effect which require birth-to death records on all domestic cattle, in order to address the risk of BSE, (mad-cow disease). Because of the bird flu, I believe these recordkeeping requirements have been extended to poultry, also. I'm not familiar enough with the regulations to know whether any other animals are included or not. Wild animals, of course, are exempt, (by default), and I would be surprised if a small niche market such as commercial bison producton has been monitored, though they may well be, in the future.
Though I'm just making a WAEG here, I'm pretty sure that all ungulates are susceptable to BSE, in one form or another. In wild deer, for example, it is known as chronic wasting disease, and it is a much more seriouis problem than BSE in cattle, because is it widespread in certain states, and it is impossible to control and treat wild herds. So far there are no documentated cases of chronic wasting disease migrating to humans, but it may just be a matter of time before this happens. Bison are not deer, of course, but they are certainly ungulates.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.