Vice Reporter Samples the Iguana Meatballs

Also on the press-preview menu: venomous lionfish.

It’s an uncommon battle cry: “If we can eat them, maybe we can defeat them.”

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Those words were recently spoken by chef Gene Rurka to Munchies contributor Alex Swerdloff at a press preview of the New York Explorers Club’s annual dinner, held earlier this month. The reporters were presented with a small sampling of the extremely exotic dinner menu which, right down to the instruments used to stir drinks, is even more uncommon than the battle cry:

What else did the elites eat? “We had feral hogs and feral goats.

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