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Boca Tacos y Tequila, a locally owned taqueria in Tucson, AZ, has announced that it will be serving lion tacos on February 16, a sort of belated Valentine's Day present for those who take their declarations of love with a side of grilled Simba. The tacos must be preordered (and paid for) by 3 p.m. on February 7, according to the Arizona Daily Star. They'll be served as Sonoran-style street tacos, available with cabbage, guacamole, pickled red onions, diced cucumbers and any of six house-made salsas, for $8.75 each.
The special is part of the restaurant's "Exotic Taco Wednesdays," in which owners Brian and Maria Jose Mazon appear to be cycling through a veritable Noah's Ark of meats. They've served python, alligator, elk and kangaroo, as well as frog legs, turtle, duck, Rocky Mountain oysters and the "most talked about" (so far) -- rattlesnake.
Arizonans who developed a hankering for lion meat last summer after a restaurant in Mesa offered
a one-day-only special on lion burgers will finally have a chance to savor the big-cat meat again.
While Il Vinaio, the restaurant that served lion burgers in June, billed its out-of-Africa special as a celebration of the World Cup and a chance for diners to broaden their culinary horizons, the owners of Boca Tacos y Tequila have no qualms about admitting what they're after: publicity.
"In all reality, what I want is just people to know that I'm here," Brian Mazon told the Daily Star. "That's the way to do it. You can't get these tacos anywhere else."
No doubt the animal rights activists who picketed Il Vinaio last summer are now eager to know where Mazon's restaurant is, too.
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1-20-2011 @3:26PM Dan Haggard said... Never eat at that sick , pathetic excuse of an restaurant. Arrest them.
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1-20-2011 @4:31PM Venus Alexis D. said... I agree and they should choke to death on eating stuff like that!!!
1-20-2011 @3:58PM Jeri said... I agree! Not sure how that can even be legal! Aren't they endangered? Where do they even get a spare lion? Jerks.
1-20-2011 @5:29PM SSSPrt said... Why? Why would people want to eat Lions? Did I miss something were there is a shortage of Cows now? We have to create a bigger demand for poachers to destroy more endangerd animals? Have the Elephants not paid a big enough price for Ivory? We need more destruction? It's so sad to see the depths people will go to make a rotton buck anymore.
1-20-2011 @5:41PM bren said... OMG,u sick human being! I hope they shut this place down!!!
1-24-2011 @8:16AM B Gross said...
your sick how could you do something like that? I guess it takes all
kinds of SICK PEOPLE like YOU to make our world turn, WELL I think
you should be whipped.
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1-31-2011 @9:53AM NotMe said... Although I do have issue with them eating lion due to them being rated "vulnerable" on the endangered species list, the Massai do hunt them, and there is still limited but legal sports hunting. Also, consider this: If you've ever eaten a cow, pig, or any other animal, what is the real difference ignoring their conservation status? Plenty of people find cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock animals to be adorable, and all have been seen as pets by someone as opposed to food animals. Yet you people posting seem to have no issue with that. It's just a simple fact that life feeds on life. So before so many people have a fit over this, ask yourself why you're willing to eat other species of animals and again ignoring their conservation status, not a big cat?
1-20-2011 @4:12PM Laurel Taylor said... OMG!!! What's next dog? With the lion population shrinking because of man already these people should be ashamed and so should anyone who eats these tacos! Totally disgusting.
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1-20-2011 @4:08PM MyView said... People like that have NO respect for anything. I'm sending this to my friend in PETA. I hope they shut that slop house down for good!
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1-20-2011 @4:18PM Linda said... DISGUSTING !!!
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1-20-2011 @4:46PM Alexia said... I would never eat a meat eating predator. The thought of eating one of the most blood thirsty, vicious animals in the wild kingdom is repulsive.
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1-20-2011 @4:49PM Jennifer said... And by AOL having this as 'news' in their feed, they are getting the publicity they want. Pleas, AOL....remove this!!
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1-20-2011 @5:09PM jrandal said... This really is not necessary. I agree with the comments on here. Why kill such a beautiful rare creature to make tacos ? It just seems like a very wasteful publicity stunt. And we wonder why we as a civilization are running out of resources? We have very little respect for anything, very SAD.
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1-20-2011 @5:01PM Derf said... This is beyond disgusting, and for publicity yet ? I wouldn't stop there if they were giving food away. Their regular fare must stink. These people are sick.
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1-20-2011 @5:01PM Bob said... Lion meat! WHOA!
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1-24-2011 @12:47AM RobDaBlogger said... THIS WILL GO GREAT WITH MY DOLPHIN ENCHILADA.
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2-09-2011 @5:32PM Daniel Lemons said... I, for one, would love to try one of these things. For the record, I would try eating just about any animal. FYI, if you haven't tried gator, snake, or dog meat, try it and you'll be surprised. Also, why do all the animal rights people get so bent out of shape over this? Because it's wrong? Define wrong objectively. You can't. There's only the law of the parent country to consider, and apparently it's legal, so long as the animals don't suffer before being slaughtered, I don't see a problem.
1-20-2011 @5:11PM Luke Avery said... What is wrong with people today? This proves the point that a great majority of people are looking for a new thrill no matter how they get it. Lions are on the vulnerable list, one step away from endangered. This place wants publicity and they are sure to get it. Just not the kind they really want.
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1-20-2011 @5:21PM duhtruthspoken said... If they're getting the meat from AFRICA, that means these poor animals are being Butchered over there, this is not right at all!
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1-20-2011 @5:24PM Luluu said... Putting aside the fact that it should be against the law to kill one of these beautiful animals...........But a lion is just a large cat. Who would eat a cat? The thought gags me!!
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