Andrew Zimmern

You know, the, it's a single portion, right?

You get a whole one yourself, but the, the first six, eight, nine weeks, it varies between hoofed animal species and,

before they go on to grass, when they're just eating mother's milk, that's it.

The animal is at its tastiest.

It's at its most delicious, regardless of what animal it is.

It's why when I'm in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, I love being out in the jungle markets and villages where they're taking tiny little birds, often little

ducks or chicks, and dipping them in boiling water, removing all the feathers and deep frying them whole.

And then you just eat them with a little bit of nuoc cham and you eat the whole thing except the beak.

When birds hoofed animals, and so the first couple of weeks of life, they are at their most delicious.

But the point is, is that I didn't think there was anything of it.

My father was the kind of person who was like, you know, when in Rome,

Yeah.

What the Romans eat.

Right.

So flash ahead to 2004 or five.

I'm pushing this show and about travel and they they rejected it.

But they let me come back the next day to repitch it because they they said, look, if you can reverse this, give us 75 percent entertainment instead of 75 percent education in this show.

We think we can do something with that.

And so I came back the next day.

I didn't have a clue in the world.