On 25/10/04, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >for hundreds of years Europeans believed that Ethiopians (or >Abyssinians as they were then called) cut steaks from the sides of >their still-living cattle, and ate the steaks warm and raw. I seem to >remember Dr. Johnson may have used the story in 'Rasselas, or The >Happy Valley', or possibly it came from James Bruce (the 'pale Abyssinian'). > >Certainly they do eat raw meat, a dish called 'kitfo', which is >somewhat like steak tartare. I've always had a pet theory that the >idea of them taking a slice from a living beast is some sort of >amalgam from kitfo, and the practice of cattle herders in the south of >draining blood from the animal to mix with milk as a source of food.
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