Masato's Den





Gorean Foods - Meat


ref: The Karian Notes, Section 02G



Bosk (Book3, page 45)(Book4, pages 4 and 5)(Book6, page 26)(Book8, page 34)(Book 16, page 234)
a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a fearful temper, and two long, wicked, curved and pointed horns. The horns, from tip to tip may measure two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called 'The Mother of the Wagon Peoples'. It's flesh and milk furnish food and drink, shelter is made from it's hides, and clothing from it's tanned and sewn skins. Weapons are made from the leather of it's hump and many tools and implements from it's bone and horns. Even the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is reverenced and the penalties for it's slaughter without reason are extreme. The meat may be roasted, broiled, boiled, stewed, fried, or dried.

Eel (Book25, page 428)
a voracious animal which can maim or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are edible and considered a gorean delicacy. Varieties include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel.

Gant (Book4, page 84)(Book6, pages 4, 10, 41 and 44)(Book12, page 196)(Book13, pages 311 and 331)
Marsh; a small long-legged horned bird; broad-billed and broad-winged, hunted by marsh girls. Jungle; a bird, related to the marsh Gant, which inhabits the river in rainforests inland of Schendi Arctic; migratory bird that nests in the mountain of Hrimgar on cliffs. When frozen, eggs are eaten like apples

Grunt (Book9, page 59)(Book11, page 360)(Book13, page 267)(Book24, page 246)
Varieties: Marsh, Blue, Great-speckled a large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa. It is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature. Similar to the shark of Earth. The great speckled, being caught and used as food by the sailors of the Thassa

Sa-tassna (Book1, page 43)
(Lit. 'Life-mother'): meat; food in general

Tabuk (Book2, pages 48, 76 and 126)(Book3, page 191)(Book12, page 152)(Book18, page 316)
Common - a kind of antelope, yellow in color with a single horn found in many area's of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the ka-la-na thickets of the planet occasionally venturing daintily into the meadows in search of berries and salt. It's meat is used as food by men (often as tabuk steak) and animals. It is a favorite prey of Tarns.
Northern - massive tawny and swift is much larger than its smaller southern variety; standing ten hands at the shoulders. They have a single spiralling ivory horn, which at it's base can be 2 1/2 inches in diameter and over a yard in length. The Red Hunters are irrecovably tired to the tabuk for sustenance and the devices of daily living much like the Wagon Peoples and the bosk, and the Red Savages and the kailiauk.
Prairie - described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this reponse is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.

Tarsk (Book2, page 76)(Book5, page 87)(Book6, pages 44 and 219)(Book13, pages 345-346)(Book22, pages 106, 108 and 281)
fat, grunting, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snorted, rooting, short-legged quadruped, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. In the wild, it is viciously aggressive. A common source of meat, and is often roasted whole. Market of Semris is famed for it's tarsk markets. Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, six tusks

Vulo (Book4, pages 1 and 84)(Book8, page 34)(Book10, page 48)
A tawny-colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild. Used for meat and eggs

WingFish, Cosian (Book4, pages 84-85)(Book6, page 139) Also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song; a tiny blue salt water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. Found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia



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