Didja hear about the hullabaloo over a restaurateur in Arizona who thought it was good idea to offer lion meat burgers to commemorate the World Cup in South Africa?
Turns out one of the e-mail addressees on his restaurant's newsletter announcing the special meal was an animal rights activist, who blew the whistle.
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The story has since blown up worldwide. Read CNN's take on the sordid and often-disturbing tale of murky government regulations and questionable supply chains and you'll be thinking that maybe the guy would've been better off offering Think Geek's Unicorn Meat. Oh, did you not hear about that story yet?
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.