{"id":1842,"date":"2006-12-04T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/you_can_have_my_armadillo_when_you_pry_it_from_my_cold_dead_fingers.html"},"modified":"2006-12-04T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:52:25","slug":"you_can_have_my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/you_can_have_my.html","title":{"rendered":"You Can Have My Armadillo When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing smoked rodent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12032006\/news\/regionalnews\/yes__we_have_no_iguanas_regionalnews_.htm\">just got that much more difficult<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>State regulators have recently stepped up the confiscation of unregulated exotic meats and other foods from local stores catering to an immigrant clientele accustomed to more extreme cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>In Queens, a food-safety inspector noticed an interesting special posted in a market&#8217;s front window: 12 beefy armadillos.<\/p>\n<p>In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another store.<\/p>\n<p>A West African grocery in Manhattan sold smoked rodent meat from a refrigerated display case.<\/p>\n<p>All of it was headed for the dinner table. All of it was also illegal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchasing smoked rodent just got that much more difficult: State regulators have recently stepped up the confiscation of unregulated exotic meats and other foods from local stores catering to an immigrant clientele accustomed to more extreme cuisine. In Queens, a food-safety inspector noticed an interesting special posted in a market&#8217;s front window: 12 beefy armadillos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}