Fresh Meat
alex November 11th, 2008
Had probably the freshed meat I’ve ever eaten on Saturday night. Marcel and I arrived at Thashika’s house about 2 mins after Tserai had slaughtered a goat, he’d just cut it’s throat and was draining the blood ready to skin and gut it. Very interesting to watch, if a touch gory, especially as it’s something I’ve never seen before and (not being vegetarian) am glad, in a strange way, that I have seen it. I didn’t have my camera so you’re lucky there are no accompanying photos on this posting.
Their cat was very excited about it all, and very happy to be given the goats head to play with/eat afterwards. The goat (a kid) had cost 160 birr, about 10 UK pounds, or the equivalent of 8 packets of pringles from the local supermarket. If a good job is made of removing the skin, i.e. intact with no puncture holes from the knife and with the hooves still attached, then the skin can be sold on again for about 30 birr.
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