People have a long-standing habit of eating meat. Meat can not only bring different delicacies to people, but also deliver essential nutrients, such as protein, essential elements and fat. In today's era when food and clothing is no longer a problem for most people, meat has appeared on the table of every household. People in China eat all kinds of meat. What flies in the sky, what runs on the ground and what swims in the water can all be our ingredients. As we all know, there was a court feast in Qing Dynasty called "Manchu-Han Banquet", which brought together most of Manchu and Han cuisines. One of the dishes is called "pulling an elephant". People who have heard of it for the first time may think that this dish has the nose of ivory mussels or elephants, but in fact, elephant pulling refers to elephant-nosed fish. This kind of fish has a long nose, so people gave it this name. From here we can draw a question, can elephant meat be eaten?

What's the smell of elephant meat? Elephant meat can really be eaten, which was recorded in ancient China. Most of the elephant meat recorded in ancient books refers to the Asian elephant, which is the largest land creature on the Asian continent at present. Adult individuals can grow ivory more than 1 m, which is a powerful weapon against their enemies. However, the number of Asian elephants in the wild is already in jeopardy. Wild Asian elephants in China are only distributed in the border areas of Yunnan, so Asian elephants are also listed as national first-class protected animals.

Like meat and the meat of other animals, it contains protein and fat, as well as vitamins, organic acids and other substances. So what does elephant meat taste like? Some ancient books in China recorded this point. In ancient times, elephant meat, like venison, was a precious ingredient that ordinary people could not eat, so only official historical materials recorded the taste of elephant meat. Among them, Kaibao Materia Medica uses the word "light" to describe elephant meat. Compendium of Materia Medica evaluates the object meat as "salty and sour", which means that the elephant meat is salty and sour. Not only is there a deviation in the record of meat taste in China, but also in foreign countries. According to research, the earliest person who recorded the taste of elephant meat abroad should be the Venetian explorer Alves Calda Mosto. During his expedition in gambia river, he tried to eat elephant meat for the first time because of lack of food.

According to Qatari Mosto's records, because elephant meat looks thick and big, he roasted it first, then cooked it again, and finally found that elephant meat was still hard to bite and didn't taste good. Another explorer, Franois Vallante, was invited to eat elephant leg meat while exploring a tribe in Africa. Vallante did as the Romans do, and recorded the taste of elephant meat in his diary. He thought the taste of elephant leg meat was so delicious that he still missed it after leaving the tribe.

The third person who ate elephant meat and recorded the taste was the explorer David Livingstone, who had a scientific research mission in the African forest and had the opportunity to try elephant meat. According to his records, they ate the elephant's tongue at that time. After cooking for a long time, the elephant's tongue was still hard, and finally they gave up eating. It can be seen from the above records that whether elephant meat is delicious is a matter of different opinions, but most records think that elephant meat is not delicious.