I believe that many people know the taste of bear paw, can elephant meat be eaten?

On the Chinese dinner table, there has always been no shortage of some strange ingredients. Just as people in the southeast coastal area look at people in the mountains in the southwest, when spring comes, they find a lot of weeds in the mountains and make a variety of delicious foods, which makes many people surprised, "I can eat this too." People in the mountains of southwest China will be surprised to see that people on the coast originally ate all kinds of seafood in different forms.

If you inquire about Chinese history, you will find that the food eaten by Chinese is too much, and some foods have long been banned in today's society, but in ancient times it was a delicacy that only royal nobles could enjoy. For example, fried deer tail, which is cooked in a pot, is a delicious dish. In the end, because the deer tail was difficult to find, the deer tail was replaced with raw pork, and in folklore, the raw pork was also replaced with tapioca starch.

Another type of food is elephant meat. Baby elephants also happened very early, and as one of the largest creatures on land, everyone has also taken baby elephants and tasted baby elephant meat. Therefore, in the eight treasures of the Qing Dynasty, there will be elephant meat records, and the eight treasures of the mountain will have Baijiahao, deer antler tablets, elephant pulls, camel peaks, civet cats, leopard fetus, lion milk, and monkey brains.

Nowadays, people should not eat elephant meat, the biggest reason is that the total number of baby elephants is scarce, and they have long been listed as protected wild animals and cannot be killed privately. At the same time, baby elephants are an indispensable part of ecological and environmental protection, and they are also a scarce means of transportation and a small animal along the Chinese border. Therefore, in today's Chinese society, there is no elephant on the dinner table of the public.

Is elephant meat good like that? At this point, the wise see the wise, and the benevolent see the benevolent. According to historical records, elephant meat should be a rare high-quality ingredient in the Qing Dynasty, and only the trunk of an elephant was used.

In the Manchu and Han banquets, there will be a dish of "Xiangba". The reason for choosing an elephant's trunk is that the long and soft nose is the part of the baby elephant's body that exercises the most, the taste is flexible, suitable for cooking, and no one knows how it tastes just to make it.

Many people think that the elephant pull here does not refer to the elephant's trunk, but to the ivory mussel or elephant trunk fish, but everyone should remember that the name of ivory mussel and elephant trunk fish came later, and it was also from the elephant's trunk that the name was derived. As the "Eight Treasures of the Mountains", the elephant pluck means that it must be a land ingredient. It's not that an elephant's trunk can't be eaten, it's that it's hard to imagine how to eat it.

Whether it's an ivory mussel or an elephant trunk fish, it's the offspring that replaces the elephant's trunk to make the ingredients. Ivory mussels, everyone knows very well, and the common name of the elephant trunk fish is the white sturgeon, and there was a professional term "tuna" in ancient times. Although the meat texture of elephant trunk fish is fatty and delicate, it is a good cook, but the taste of cooking is completely different from that of elephant trunk.

Therefore, don't say that the ancients made a mistake about the elephant pull, but the elephant's trunk was definitely a rare high-end ingredient in ancient times.

Of course, elephant meat can be eaten, but in general, people do not eat elephants because elephants reproduce very slowly.

Elephant meat is also edible, but elephants, as nationally protected animals, cannot be sold at will, and the killing of elephants is a violation of relevant laws.

Elephant meat is edible, but I don't recommend eating elephant meat, which is now a protected animal.