Just Jawin' - December 2011
It’s All a Matter of Taste
| One day a Park Ranger was walking through the woods, when he spied a primitive-looking guy squatting next to a small fire cooking a meal on a short stick. Visiting with him, the Ranger found that the man had been living on his own in the woods for over twenty years, totally separated from civilization, and the Ranger was the first human he’d seen in all that time. The Ranger casually asked the hermit what he was cooking. The man smiled and said, “Oh, one of my very favorite foods, peregrine falcon. I eat it every chance I get.” |
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The Ranger got very excited, and told him that the peregrine falcon was an endangered species, illegal to kill and eat, and as a Park Ranger, he must arrest him. The hermit begged the Ranger not to turn him in, as he could not survive in civilized society, let alone in a prison. The Ranger finally relented with a stern warning that the hermit never harm another peregrine falcon, to which the hermit agreed. As the Ranger was leaving, his curiosity finally overcame him. “I’ve got to know,” he asked, “what does a peregrine falcon taste like?” “It’s hard to say,” said the hermit, “sort of in-between a spotted owl and a bald eagle.”