{"id":750720,"date":"2013-05-10T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=229321"},"modified":"2013-05-10T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:26:13","slug":"lion-tacos-pulled-after-restaurant-generates-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750720","title":{"rendered":"Lion Tacos Pulled After Restaurant Generates Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when you could go into a restaurant in Tampa and get yourself some lion meat tacos. Those days are now behind us. Taco Fusion has reportedly pulled lion from the menu after causing a media stir. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_lnKKr4MVc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like eating a predator to make you feel like a predator,&#8221; said one patron in the above Fox News report. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re surprisingly tasty,&#8221; another said about lions. <\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, nobody said, &#8220;It&#8217;s like eating a cat, because that&#8217;s what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the video, otter and beaver were also on the menu. It&#8217;s unclear whether they&#8217;re still serving these meats, but here&#8217;s a page from their online menu, which indicates you should still have no problem getting a kangaroo taco: <\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/pictures\/taco-fusion.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Safari Tacos\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also, they deliver. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=4w71tOOGYJc:sm7GExuTseg:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/4w71tOOGYJc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when you could go into a restaurant in Tampa and get yourself some lion meat tacos. Those days are now behind us. Taco Fusion has reportedly pulled lion from the menu after causing a media stir. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like eating a predator to make you feel like a predator,&#8221; said one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39io","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}