{"id":134,"date":"2005-11-23T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T04:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:19:56","slug":"oh-boy-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Oh Boy!  A Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\/\">Colby Cosh<\/a>, who apparently forgot to provide an anchor, links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&#038;storyID=2005-11-21T155828Z_01_KRA155651_RTRUKOC_0_US-AUSTRALIA-KANGAROO.xml\">Reuters story<\/a> about Australian campaign to find a new name for kangaroo meat.  Apparently they think it&#8217;s the name that deters people from eating the stuff.  Time for a brainstorm?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm . . . .  Australia was founded by or for British criminals.  Given the proverbial thievishness of the Welsh (&#147;Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief&#148;) and the name of New South Wales, many of them were presumably Welsh.  Kangaroos are herbivorous creatures known for their jumping.  They&#8217;re also overabundant in Australia, which suggests that they spend way a fair amount of their time reproducing.  I&#8217;ve got it!  How about &#147;Welsh rabbit&#148;?  Too bad that name&#8217;s already taken.  Back to the drawing board . . . .  Oz Rabbit?  Pouch Rabbit?  Ozzy Bunny?  Big Bunny?  Superbunny?  (According to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, a restaurant in Shanghai that specializes in rat dishes calls itself &#147;Super Deer&#148;.)  Something along those lines might do.  Then again, perhaps they should just appeal to the macho element of the population and imply that only real men eat kangaroo.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the contest is apparently only open to chefs and restaurant employees, and closes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodcompanion.com\/comp\/kangaroo2.php\">November 31st<\/a>, which looks like a fancy way of saying never. If any such person wants to use any of these names, he is welcome to do so, as long as I get 10% of the prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh, who apparently forgot to provide an anchor, links to a Reuters story about Australian campaign to find a new name for kangaroo meat. Apparently they think it&#8217;s the name that deters people from eating the stuff. Time for a brainstorm? Hmmm . . . . Australia was founded by or for British criminals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}