Exotic lion-meat tacos

Exotic lion-meat tacos...

In the six months since it launched Exotic Taco Wednesdays, Boca Tacos y Tequila has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo and rattlesnake.

Frog legs, turtle, duck and Rocky Mountain oysters have also made appearances.

"We've done just about anything we can get our hands on," said owner Bryan Mazon. "Every Wednesday we do something a little bit different."

Last week he announced on Boca's Facebook page that the UA-area taco shop was accepting prepaid orders for African lion, to be served on Feb. 16. Orders must be placed by 3 p.m. Feb. 7.

"I've gotten a lot of questions, like if it's legal," said Mazon, adding that a few lion tacos have been reserved so far. "We're still a month out, too."

According to the Food and Drug Administration, lion and other game meat can be sold as long as the species isn't endangered.

"I'm doing the African lion to get my name out," said Mazon, who used to be a salesman for City Meat and Provisions. "I've never tried it myself, but this one really caught my eye."

Mazon said he had heard about a Mesa restaurant, il Vinaio, that served burgers made with African lion to correspond with the World Cup in South Africa last summer. Reservations sold out, but others picketed the restaurant.

Most of Boca's exotic tacos range between $3 and $4. The lion tacos cost $8.75 apiece.

This is the first time Boca is pre-selling its tacos. But at $100 a pound of ground lion meat - $400 for a pound of tenderloin - it makes sense.

Mazon said he still expects to lose money on the lion, but is in it for exposure.

"In all reality, what I want is just people to know that I'm here," he said. "That's the way to do it. You can't get these tacos anywhere else."

His wife, Maria Jose Mazon, is Boca's chef and will make eight tacos per pound.

The couple usually order 2 to 3 pounds of meat for Exotic Wednesdays, with grilled alligator being the best-seller.

But rattlesnake made an impact, too.


CRAZY SMADE - And people still wonder why I'm so disgusted with Christian-Atheist America? People still wonder why I'm so attracted to Judaism? As if I needed another reason!? Wow! Maybe Disney should make some more movies about cartoon lions, huh? They've certainly made enough movies with dogs and rodents and I don't see people eating them, at least not openly. I'd expect to find something like this in China or elsewhere throughout Eastern Asia, but not here in the States. I'm sure that certain programs on cable TV's FOOD NETWORK & the TRAVEL CHANNEL have contributed to this and other unsettling trends in Goyishkeit (i.e., the opposite of Jewishness). When the demand for lion-meat tacos catches on will it lead to an increase in canned hunt operations? Exotic animals belong in the wild and NOT in a cage, on your floors and walls, and certainly not on your dinner plate or in a take-out bag! ARGH!

HaShem! HaShem! Please, give me the means and wherewithal to leave this accursed society and their Goyishkeit in the dust!! I honestly don't know how much longer I can tolerate this insanity!!!