I really like zebra, probably because we ate a lot of horse meat as a boy during WWII. Beef, pork, and chicken were rationed and my mother would trade her meat ration stamps for other things and buy non-rationed horse meat that every butcher shop sold.
As a result, I was 10 years old before I learned what beef tasted like. To my unsophisticated taste, my first reaction was it wasn't as good as horse.
I ate my first zebra filet in Zimbabwe in 1983 and made it a point to eat zebra on all my subsequent trips to Africa. It's been so long since I ate horse meat I don't remember if it has the yellow fat that zebra does but I suppose it does.
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Posts: 2633 | Location: tucson and greer arizona | Registered: 02 February 2006
I've heard that Burchell's zebra are not all that great to eat while Hartmann's zebra are some of the best meat there is. We've only eaten Hartmann's and it was incredible.
I had them both and they were both excellent. In Namibia the Hartmann's backstrap was smoked and served as an appetizer with cheese, awesome. The Burchell's was cooked on the pit by none other than Infinito at the Tholo camp in Botswana and it was fantastic.
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Posts: 1931 | Location: Lafayette, LA | Registered: 05 October 2007
Have to say out of everything we ate on our safari Zebra was bloody beautiful.
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Posts: 8103 | Location: Bloody Queensland where every thing is 20 years behind the rest of Australia! | Registered: 25 January 2001
I really like zebra, probably because we ate a lot of horse meat as a boy during WWII. Beef, pork, and chicken were rationed and my mother would trade her meat ration stamps for other things and buy non-rationed horse meat that every butcher shop sold.
As a result, I was 10 years old before I learned what beef tasted like. To my unsophisticated taste, my first reaction was it wasn't as good as horse.
I ate my first zebra filet in Zimbabwe in 1983 and made it a point to eat zebra on all my subsequent trips to Africa. It's been so long since I ate horse meat I don't remember if it has the yellow fat that zebra does but I suppose it does.
Bill Quimby
I ate the living hell out of horse while in Sweden. If Zebra is anything like horse, I'm all in...
Originally posted by sheephunterab: I've heard that Burchell's zebra are not all that great to eat while Hartmann's zebra are some of the best meat there is. We've only eaten Hartmann's and it was incredible.
FWIW we ate backstrap steaks off of an old Burchell's stallion that I killed in Namibia some years back and it was as good as any African meat I've ever eaten. Maybe it tenderized falling down the side of the mountain after I shot it. Better than Eland IMO. Mighty fine vittles.
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Posts: 17099 | Location: Texas USA | Registered: 07 May 2001
We ate quite a bit of horse meat years ago, because we could afford it, and liked it. We tried some of the Burchells Zebra that the wife shot. All I can say is, I ate it but, I can't say I cared for it.
Posts: 231 | Location: Central Oregon | Registered: 08 September 2006
Better than Eland IMO. Mighty fine vittles.
