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Finnish Bear Meat Anyone?
sunset_gold
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I just can't put this off any longer! Two years ago we had visitors stay from Finland, they brought us a gift of a tin of Karhun Lihaa - Bear Meat!
On the tin it says
94.5% Bear meat
5% Grease fo wild boar
Corn starch
Salt
Rosemary
New shoot of spruce
It is a delicacy in Finland and quite expensive I believe (although they might have given it to us for a laugh I suppose, lol!)...
Anyone ever had it or cooked it by any chance?
Thanks SG
On the tin it says
94.5% Bear meat
5% Grease fo wild boar
Corn starch
Salt
Rosemary
New shoot of spruce
It is a delicacy in Finland and quite expensive I believe (although they might have given it to us for a laugh I suppose, lol!)...
Anyone ever had it or cooked it by any chance?
Thanks SG
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Well, if it's in a tin, it's already cooked... which is good. I would treat it like tinned ham. Open it. Try a little. If it's OK then great, if not you could always chop it up and cook it in a sauce if you really wish to use it. Ultimately it's meat, and lets be honest, from 2 years ago it could be horse. ;-)
I could make it better myself at home. All I need is a small aubergine...
I moved to Liverpool for a better life.
And goodness, it's turned out to be better and busier!0 -
Food Bank? Someone might be grateful....:p[0
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I think you are going to have to try it, just for the curiosity factor if nothing else. I didn't know they ate bear.!Yep...still at it, working out how to retire early.:D....... Going to have to rethink that scenario as have been screwed over by the company. A work in progress.0
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I'm looking forward to this one on the 'What are you making for dinner tonight?' thread!0
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Does anyone remember that childhood rhyme
Algie met a bear
The bear met Algie
The bear was bulgy
and the bulge was Algie!!!
Seems appropriate given the subject in the tin!!!0 -
I'll have it
I've eaten so many strange things in my life that another one won't hurt 
Why not make a Goldilocks Pie with it? (Like cottage pie but with bear meat), or perhaps a bear lasagne?0 -
Report back on the taste! I have eaten all kinds of weird & wonderful things around the world, and most have been delicious.
That said, I won't be ordering Frog's Glands again. A dessert, would you believe? And not nice; very bitter!0 -
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I only came back to this thread out of curiosity...tell us what it was like
Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi0 -
It's probably brown bear which is omnivorous. I've never eaten meat from non-vege animals so I'd be interested to hear what it's like; apparently it's similar to venison, with not much fat. You might want to try a slice with some kind of relish, like cranberry?"Save £12k in 2019" #120 - £100,699.57/£100,0000
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