Gus' Cookery World - Last chance to eat

You know readers, I want to confide in you this week. I haven't told anyone this before but my biggest regret in life is that I never had the chance to eat the flesh of the Dodo. The late, famed dodo was a clumsy, pigeon-like bird, larger than a turkey which lived on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Its flesh though tough and tasteless could have been spiced up somewhat with a bit of oregano. At least thats what I reckon. Alas this will never happen, the last dodos were killed in the 17th century by those jammy portuguese bastards. Now the dodo is extinct and so on and so forth I will never get to taste its tasteless flesh. Dammit! My heart aches with this tragedy of lost opportunity.

But fear not readers all is not lost, I did have the chance to eat the Kakapo which I always fully intended to do. This large flightless parrot, the Kakapo, is a tragic victim of a quickly changing environment and with danger rushing at it from all sides it's impossible not to love this bird.

The Kakapo was once widespread throughout New Zealand but there are now only 62 Kakapo left, well now actually only 61 hehehe. Having said that though I have to admit that on my recent hunting trip to New Zealand I felt quite sad when I wrang one's neck but after plucking out it's green feathers it just looked like any old meat from the supermarket and turned out to be quite nice, a bit like turkey actually. Anyway I figure that 61 birds would give me a good years worth of eating (or less if cooking for a family) of good healthy portions plus leftovers if I ever considered moving to New Zealand.