I told a couple yesterday that I didn’t like the taste of bird meat and this is pretty universally baffling to people but they were like “But what about…”
So I started listing all the birds I’ve tried and didn’t like going, “Chicken, turkey, duck, squab, pheasant, Cornish game hen, I didn’t like any of them.”
“What about ptarmigan?” the guy asked.
I kinda thought he was joking since that’s such a random bird but I shook my head no.
The woman though went, “What the hell is that?”
“Oh,” I said, “They’re a little ground bird, kinda bigger than a pigeon? They make a really cute call, you should look it up.” I refrained from saying that their tracks confuse people in the snow because they look like massacred rabbits.
I realized the man was staring at me and the woman was fully just lost.
“You didn’t expect me to know what a ptarmigan is, did you?” I laughed.
“I really didn’t,” he admitted. “I’m from up in Alaska so I’ve had them in stew, but no one knows what the hell they are.”
“Oh. Sorry for eating them.”
I shrugged. “It’s tough in Alaska, you’ve gotta eat something.” I turned to the lady, “But you should still look them up. They’re really cute.”
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