Wichita Chef Takes Lion Off Menu After Protests
Associated Press - Sat 07:44 PM 08/11/2012
No lion, but the restaurant still will be serving kangaroo, alpaca, crocodile and water buffalo
A Wichita restaurant won't be serving lion at a one-night-only dinner next week after animal rights groups protested its inclusion in the exotic meal.
Jason Febres, a chef at Taste & See restaurant, acknowledged on his Facebook page that some people were shocked and disturbed about the proposed menu item.
The restaurant still will be serving kangaroo, alpaca, crocodile and water buffalo at its $160 dinner Tuesday, which is sold out.
The dinner plans rankled wild-animal advocate Born Free USA and led to a petition on the social-action site Change.org calling for people to pressure Febres to cancel the dinner.
Febres says he isn't canceling and added that some information about his dinner has been misleading.
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jimdingo
Saturday 11 August 2012 22:51 Report this comment
Originally I'm from Colorado. I grew up in Boulder. I lived one block from Mork and Mindy's house. Now I live in Salina, KS. I was born here. All my life, I heard "Save the whales!!!!" Guess what, after 15 years in the oil and gas fields of Kansas, and working in manufacturing in this great state, kill what you can and eat it. You only go around once in this life. Oh yeah, drive a Humvee, and wear REAL fur.
t-bone
Sunday 12 August 2012 06:36 Report this comment
yever had orangatang? dont knock it til you've tried it. peacock? i prefer long horn steer and buffalo. save the bales
Iamgonnagetu
Sunday 12 August 2012 10:18 Report this comment
Replace it with horse meat.
Viper
Sunday 12 August 2012 11:01 Report this comment
Meat is meat, I'll try anything once.
ROCKER
Sunday 12 August 2012 12:19 Report this comment
THANK YOU PROTESTERS ,for letting ona few lions go to waste ,,,,its probably already been cut up debone and marinated ,and now it going in trash ,,,