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Another favorite
treat of
Native American buffalo hunters and also that Euro-American
hide hunters
was buffalo tongue.
It's easy to get out,
a lot of times you'd read stories of both
you know, Americans and Native Americans killing buffalo just for the tongue because you could
kill one animal,
pop the tongue out in minutes, and just be on your way with a full meal.
Um, it's very fatty, it's very good.
so it's just a quick thing
to get out
and I'm going to pull this thing out, then you usually boil it up, and you peel the skin off of it.
It really is phenomenal, it's really good.
You could see why, you read so much about people just shooting an animal and grabbing the tongue
out
because it's
one bullet and you get one meal and you don't even cut into the thing, you just do this real
quick. But
from a modern perspective, I mean,
the amount of waste seems atrocious
and I think that at the time
people had a hard time
grasping
the finiteness on the resource.
The first couple hundred years
of--of
Euro-American activity, I think they had no idea. I think they thought you could just shoot buffalo and
take the tongue
and then shoot another one the next day and take that tongue and
it would go on forever.
you know and by 1900
shortly after there were only about 75 buffalo left in the
United States of America. Now
the continent,
you've got 500 thousand.