A Nebraska School Served Students Chili Made With Kangaroo Meat - Has Apologized For Causing 'Anxiety'
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A Nebraska school cook is in hot water after he served students chili containing a mixture of beef and kangaroo meat.
Kevin Frei said he added the ingredient because it was a lean source of protein. But his choice did not go down well with parents who complained that they did want their children being served “exotic meat.”. Some even complained that their kids were feeling sick after the meal, despite kangaroo meat not being harmful.
Potter-Drix Public Schools superintendent Mike Williams shared a letter with a few “thoughts on this situation.”
“1. If a family wants to eat exotic foods, they can do so on their own time—not at school,” Williams said, according to the letter, which was posted on Facebook .
“2. If we were to have food or ingredients that are out of the ordinary, they should be listed on the menu so that the students and families are aware of what they would be being served.
“3. We will no way be serving food of this nature again. Period.”
Williams apologized in the letter for the “anxiety and any harm that this has caused individual students and/or families.” He added: “We will make sure that something like this never occurs again.”
Despite the backlash, kangaroo meat is a very healthy alternative to beef. It is 98 percent fat-free and high in protein and iron. In Australia, kangaroo meat is a common dish that is offered in bars across the country. Kangaroo meat exports are also growing by around 10 percent per year, according to the ABC .
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There must have been some exciting games of HOP-scotch out in the school playground that afternoon.
I was wondering what happened to Petey Coober.
Maybe Petey was the cook.
Me, too. Does anyone know?
Time for SVU to get involved.
I was wondering the same thing just the other day.
Is he related to Kangaroo Jack?
I can see why.
Cook- this is a great source of lean meat.
Kids, "We just ate Kanga and Roo!"
What I want to know is who approved this cook's budget. Kangaroo meat is much more expensive than beef- at least from what I found online.
This is hilarious.....those folks are hopping mad......
Kangaroo Meat
I wonder, does it taste like chicken?
No it tastes like horse
I can't help wondering how you even begin to import that kind of meat. Didn't we go through this with Jack-In-The-Box in the 70s?
Were they importing kangaroo meat?
I really thought this was happening in Australia not Nebraska. I was asking myself, what's the big deal, they eat roo meat in Australia.
Agreed chili needs meat, kangaroo is meat. I don't see a problem.
Had Kangaroo meat when I was in Australia in the 80's. It tasted really good. Used some in a chili cookoff in Antarctica one year too. Had no complaints!
I am having trouble believing the illness and anxiety from eating roo.
Well, certain segments of the population live their lives full of imagined illness and anxiety these days......
Some people are just too squeamish to try something different and/or new. In my 20 years of military service I did desert, mountain, and jungle survival training on three different continents. I had everything from croc, snake, gators, monitor lizards, monkey, and many others and enjoyed most. The only ones I had a problem with were grubs, scorpions, and locusts. Could not do those.
If no one said anything ………. hmmmmmmm.
Ostrich is great too !
Roo meat is excellent and a very healthy alternative to beef. It's a common meat in Aussie.