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Why did Parisians eat two zoo elephants in 1870?

When the Germans besieged Paris for five months during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, food shortages quickly arose in the city. As ordinary foods began to run out, Parisians began to eat horse meat, and then cats, dogs and rats. When this meat also came to an end, chefs began to purchase animals from zoos, offering exotic dishes from them to wealthy customers. After antelopes, camels and zebras, the turn came to two Parisian elephants - Castor and Pollux, whose meat, by all accounts, was tasteless. For comparison, during more than two years of the blockade of Leningrad, its inhabitants did not touch a single animal from the zoo.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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