The last time Wild Beasts came to D.C. we were more than smitten — we were in love. Even Cale was twitterpatted before-and-after he interviewed them last Winter. So why would you ever want to miss their future shows? Lucky for all, Wild Beasts come to the 9:30 Club next Saturday, July 16th. Tickets are still on sale here but we’ve also got a pair up for grabs.
But first let’s listen to my favorite song of theirs, “The Fun Powder Plot”
Did you know? “[The song is] a direct reference to the attack on The Houses of Parliament a few years back by Fathers 4 Justice, a civil rights group for Fathers who don’t have rights to their children. I thought about the power of exposure we have with a song and how we could actually affect a situation in a very small, very crude way. Some stuff that happened during this time made me sympathize with their cause. I was also endeared by what an utterly ridiculous British attempt at protest it was, these guys walked into an open parliament and flour bombed Tony Blair, do you laugh or cry at that? The song went through many re-writes until one day it just fell into our laps and we knew it was right,” said singer Hayden Thorpe in our interview.
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See? How can you not love them?!
TO WIN: Comment below telling us the most exotic animal you’ve consumed. Don’t forget to tell us how it tastes (and be a little more clever than “Just like chicken!”). Winner will be selected by lunchtime next Friday. Use a real email address when you comment! Good Luck!
Lion. I honestly can’t remember what it tasted like. I was about 14 and some distant uncle insisted I try some piece of meat that I assumed was deer or something beforehand, and he afterward proudly told me was lion. I wish he’d told me before; I’d have paid more attention! (Or, you know, been a dick about it and refused, since I was 14 and who knows what I would choose to be indignant about.) I also which I remembered where the eff he got lion meat. Something about a safari? But that’s illegal, right?
Ah, well.
When in El Salvador, I tried Iguana with my cousins at this dainty restaurant in the middle of the country. Iguana was salty and suprisingly rich in taste. Once you got over the texture, well the skin, it really did taste something very similar to your average white meat. I had been meaning to try it for the longest time especially after seeing some documentary where Central Americans were eating Iguana.
Originally, I wanted to eat Armadillo but according to one of my crazy uncles, eating armadillo was banned after several people got some strange mental side effects as a result of eating the animal.
It always blows my mind the kinds of creatures you can consume abroad.
Needless to say, my cousins and I really loved iguana and can’t wait to eat some of them. We still got the taste dancin on our tongues.
Swordfish, it’s the best thing ever to me, especially when cooked out on a grill, it taste like a meatier tuna to me.
Chimpanzee, it tasted 96 percent like humans.
I lived in Key west for a hot minute… not proud to say this but …before a hurricane i was with some pirates and they call it a free day which means… all the cops/wildlife authorites were out of the water due to the conditions and friend of mine killed a manatee with a spear gun and we ate a fatty endangered species… thats my 2 cents..
When I visited China I had Crocodile and Shark Fin soup. The Crocodile was very thick and rubbery..and very salty. And the Shark fin just tasted like a very meaty fish. It was actually pretty good!
When i lived in Zimbabwe, I’d love to go to a place called the Mongolian Grill for its authentic Mongolian proteins like…Warthog, Kudu, Crocodile, Impala, Eland, Ostrich and Wildebeest. Also, in Nicaragua I’ve had Python and ‘Garrobo’ (Ctenosaura similis). Uh, I’ve had eel and fried caterpillars too. I’ll stop now.
Sea urchin roe, fresh from a sea urchin. A friend and I were attempting to make a living one summer on the coast of Maine by raking sea moss. Sometimes, we would get critters in the basket on the rake, especially starfish and occasionally sea urchins. One time we broke open a sea urchin with one of our rakes and tasted the roe.
Salty. Not at all like chicken.
I haven’t eaten animals since I was 12. However, I served in a restaurant that wouldn’t let me tell tables that, so I often had to describe how things tasted if they hadn’t had it before. Most commonly I had to do this for the full, rich and buttery rabbit dish. It’s cooked with mushrooms and tomatoes and goes really well with a full-bodied, spicy Zin.
I had unicorn one time at a birthday party — it tasted like pinata candy.
dirty bandaid….it may or may not have been a bet…i may or may not have been inebriated at the time….
Inmate?! Well, to be fair, I don’t really know what it was (a thing that happens sometimes if you travel in China, don’t speak Chinese, and think it’s somehow enriching to choose back-alley restaurants with dirty fishtanks for your lunchtime needs.) It was pink and tasted like warm, firm papaya–a fruit I consider wild and beastly in its own right.
Caterpillar–and to be honest it tasted uncomfortably crunchy and very salty. The goat it came with was pretty good though….
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Animal: Human
Tasted like: fingernail
I thought that reindeers were imaginary until I ate one with lingonberry sauce.