Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?
Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video! Reindeer meat could've entered North American cuisine and culture, but our turn of the century efforts to develop...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. In North America, we tend to think of reindeer once a year, as semi-mythical flying creatures that pull Santa’s sleigh around the world. Yet not only are reindeer real - if things had gone a little differently, we might be regularly chowing down on Blitzen burgers. That’s because, when the United States bought Alaska from Russia in the late 1800s, American entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to replicate Russia's long-established reindeer herding industry, and started shipping domesticated reindeer over to Alaska. But it turns out that reindeer are kind of naughty. Entire herds disappeared into the vast Alaskan landscape, where they died or ran off with the area’s native, wild reindeer. Reindeer herders in Europe and R...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. In North America, we tend to think of reindeer once a year, as semi-mythical flying creatures that pull Santa’s sleigh around the world. Yet not only are reindeer real - if things had gone a little differently, we might be regularly chowing down on Blitzen burgers. That’s because, when the United States bought Alaska from Russia in the late 1800s, American entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to replicate Russia's long-established reindeer herding industry, and started shipping domesticated reindeer over to Alaska. But it turns out that reindeer are kind of naughty. Entire herds disappeared into the vast Alaskan landscape, where they died or ran off with the area’s native, wild reindeer. Reindeer herders in Europe and R...
