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nowaypablo  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The growing problem of Pablo Escobar’s hippos.

I fucking love hippos.

    "castrate the politicians"




Kaius  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you tasted them?

    Hildebrand has another, more radical solution: "I think they should barbecue them and eat them."

Tastes like bacon apparently.

nowaypablo  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Instead of containing the population that large at a cost of $500,000, they should eat all the hippos save a few that will reproduce, take the cost of that down say 75%, and once the offspring are old enough to procreate you eat the parents!

This is an opportunity for infinite bacon. ish.

Kaius  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it was in Guns, Germs and Steel where i read that if an animal or plant is not currently farmed by us then there is probably a good reason. I'd imagine Hippos are just too dangerous to farm.

That being said there is nothing to say we couldn't have a mass BBQ now and eat our fill. Imagine the meat sweats from eating hippo! I bet the babies are succulent.

nowaypablo  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I respect that you took that just over the line, and it leaves me delightfully worried.

Kaius  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's more fun on this side of the line I have found ☺

OftenBen  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd try it. Hippo ribs are probably really good. Or maybe they're horrible, I don't know.

nowaypablo  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One way to find out. Hubski meetup: Mexico.

OftenBen  ·  3553 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hippo Ribs: The Reckoning of Pablo Escobar.