Jack Rabbit Roundup

I ate rabbit. Yes I did and I loved it. In fact, I'll go so far to say that it now sits on my top 10 best dinners list. I was at a wonderful little French restaurant this week called Tati Bistro on Harbord and there it was on the menu. So, up on the tree house style roof top patio, I ordered and ate my first rabbit stew.

Despite being so cute and timid (a deterrent from wanting to eat them in my opinion), wild rabbits actually have a history of being little bastards. The famous Western Kansas Jack Rabbit Roundup of 1935 tales one of these times. Rabbits had taken over the area and were eating up farmers crops. It was during the Depression, people were starving, so naturally this pissed everyone off a great deal.

Apparently county commissioners posted an ad. for a massive rabbit drive which drew in 10,000 people on Jan.14, 1935 to arrive, club and kill over 1,600 rabbits in one day! Pretty gruesome. Food farming today is more awful than ever as we all know, but I won't go there.

I wonder if Dong Nguyen was familiar with The Roundup??

FYI - rabbits are really lean and give up a lot of protein; 21% with only 4.5% fat compared to beef which is 16.3% protein and chicken at 20%. So eat 'em up!