The Christian holiday menus are in a funk. Come on, you know it's a fact! Turkey, Ham or pork, maybe the vegetarians have it right. Well lets discount for a moment that vegi-burgers many not be on everyone's menu and do some speculating.
With that in mind, there are reasons that these choices in meats were made. For the most part they are mild flavored for the most part. Meat often takes on the taste of what the animal eats. There is a reason that carnivore meats are not at the top of meats consumed.
This round about way to menu choices then brings us to a PopSci article asking the rather intriguing question - what kind of dinosaur meat would taste the best! As in today's diet, carnivore meat would most likely be off the menu. Fat contributes a lot to the flavor of the meat and what an animal eats flavors the fat. It becomes quickly clear why, now and it was then, the meat eaters were not good eating.
However if we think of the types eaten now - cow, deer, bison perhaps, we see the palate leans toward grass and grain fed. T-Rex for all it's supposed glamorous nature, has been found to have jaw abnormalities which suggests diseases from eating rotten meat which also suggests that the meat would be heavily laden with parasites. It does not take much to consider how a Rex would taste...bleh.
Many theories suggest that dino meat would taste like chicken because of the close ties to modern birds. However the Pop Sci article suggests that many of the land going dinos would be closer to beef.
The article goes on to consider slow vs fast twitch muscle fibers and fast and slow activity to suggest what meat would be like on certain animals and go on to make some interesting conclusions.
Read the Pop Sci article here to see if your mouth starts to water...lol
