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Bunny Stew and Chocolate Jesus
The perfect Easter feast.
Sam Sullivan, I suspect, never gets emails like this.
In less than two years in office, Vancouver's mayor has pissed off his share of constituents: the homeless, the homed, even his own party. But even he has managed to avoid the wrath of the Tanzanian chefs.
Ron Casey, though, hasn't been so lucky.
Casey is the mayor of Canmore, an outdoorsy town at the base of the Rocky Mountains, right off the highway that connects Banff and Calgary. Canmore, unfortunately for Casey, has a bunny problem.
A big one.
Rabbits have overrun Casey's town. They are eating shrubs, destroying lawns, and robbing liquor stores. (Okay, I made that last one up.) So bad has the problem become, that last month the city sent out a survey asking residents what they thought of the city "dealing" with the problem. And by "dealing" I mean killing and by "problem" I mean rabbits and lots of them.
The potential bunny massacre fast became big news. Stories in the Canmore Leader led to an A1 feature in the National Post; local radio begat national network news. By this week, stories on the story had appeared in papers from New York to Brunei.
As a result, Casey's inbox started filling with messages from around the world. A bird enthusiast from New Hampshire suggested they use falcons to cull the rabbit herd, according to the post story. One piece in the Leader, meanwhile, reported on a Tanzanian chef heartbroken at the thought of all that delicious rabbit going to waste.
"The thought of euthanizing rabbits solely due to an agricultural inconvenience would be unheard of here or anywhere else in the Third World. It is a waste of life. And a waste of nourishment," the cook said.
He added that he's willing to spend a week preparing rabbit stew if Canmore will donate its rabbits to help feed the needy.
"It can be frozen and shipped to homeless centres and various other charities throughout Canada or it could feed the town's citizens at a big outdoor gathering."
Now if only there was a major rabbit-themed holiday in the near future...
Tangentially related postscript:
For those of you who prefer your assaults on Easter iconography a little less secular I offer this story.
Plans to exhibit a 6-foot chocolate Jesus at a New York gallery were cancelled last week when leading Catholics complained about both the timing and content of the display.
The sculpture, which was called "My Sweet Lord," and featured a nude, anatomically correct Jesus, was supposed be displayed during Christianity's Holy Week inside Manhattan's Roger Smith hotel.
No word on whether the exhibit would be resurrected early next week. ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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Rhea
5 years ago
rabbit stew
Rabbit stew is actually extremely tasty. I've had rabbits both as pets and for dinner, and I have to say that cute as little bunnies are, they make a damn good stew. They're incredibly destructive pests and breed like, well, rabbits. If they can be humanely killed and the meat used for people who need it, why not do it? Wasn't there a big kerfuffle at UVic a few years back because they had students eating the cute little lapins that were overrunning the campus?
This has marked paralells to the infestation of Canada geese in various places...I've often thought that culled geese would make a tasty Xmas dinner for those who are going hungry.
skeptikool
5 years ago
During WW2 in England, my
During WW2 in England, my family reared Dutch and chinchilla rabbits for food and fur in a few backyard hutches. Rabbit stew is a great comfort food and exceptionally tasty - works well with curry.
A bad experience with rabbit meat occurred as a crew member on a passenger ship carrying immigrants to Australia. I had several meals of rabbit that had an awful freezer burn taste. The mutton was similarly tainted. I think that both had probably served as ballast deep in the holds for months, or years, before delivery to the ship's galley.
bob the cat
5 years ago
cooked rabbit
Tried rabbit..didn`t like it..probably cooked it wrong...a stew would probably have been better..like goose it seemed very oily.
Curry might work...does the rabbits age affect the flavour a great deal?
bob the cat
5 years ago
Chocolate
I`ve never tried chocolate Jesus.
Yeoman
5 years ago
Lean Meat
Are you sure it was rabbit that seemed very oily? Rabbit is virtually fat free. Maybe it was another small city dweller. Meow...
Roberta
5 years ago
bunnies not cows
If we ate bunnies instead of cows the world would be a better place. You get way more bang for your buck breeding rabbits for meat than cows. Better for the environment too.
Yeoman
5 years ago
Cows vs rabbits
While the feed conversion ratio is better for rabbits, its rather difficult to raise bunnies on range land...herding rabbits..and waht would you call the herders? - bunnyboys?
clubofrome
5 years ago
Bad Visuals
Damn it Yeoman, it's this kind of thing that leads to Will Ferrell movies like "Blades of Glory." Someone told me that movie was # 1 and I knew then that he is mocking us. He is the least funnyperson to come out of SNL, ever, and now I can't get this picture of him as "bunnyboy ranch foreman" out of my head.... Arrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
gordon
5 years ago
Rabbit tastes good, and we should not kill and waste
I spent a portion of my teen years growing up in northern BC in the bush. It was up in the MAnson Creek area of northern BC, an old gold mining area from the early 1900's where they had a hydrolic open pit mine. The sluice tht carried the water was built by chinese and came 20 miles from Germanson lake.
Living in a log cabin, hunting for food and shut in during the long winter months was a great experience for me to appreciate nature and have a respect for living things. We ate everyhting we killed, and nothing went to waste, as it should be.
Today when billions are hungry, diseased, and starving, it is a crime and arrogant to consider killing without making use of the object of our wrath.
Canmore is a little bedroom community at the gates of Banff national park a 45 min commute from Calgary. I lived in Calgary a good portion of my life and have not been there other than overnight in the last 18 years, I'd imagine Canmore today to be filled with resort loving elitist rich who ski Kananaskis and sun their botoxed wives skin on the porches of their modern luxury wooden chalets, wishing the rabbits would stop running freely across the roads and forcing them to wash bunny blood from the wheel wells of their lexus's.