Joe Rogan

They didn't eat the beef.

They didn't eat the buffalo.

They were eating their tongues.

They were killing them initially for their tongues, and then they would pickle the tongues and send them to New York.

And people in New York were eating pickled buffalo tongues.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Thousands of pounds.

And then they started using their skins, so buffalo hides became valuable.

But it wasn't the meat that they were after.

Right.

which is crazy because they basically almost made them extinct.

They came like within a hair's breadth of making bison extinct in North America.

Well, also because they opened it up to the market.

So market hunting was a giant problem with wildlife in North America.

So what that means is they didn't have refrigeration back then, right?

So you needed a constant supply of meat.

And, you know, you could salt things down and transport them that way.

And there's a bunch of different ways to avoid the breakdown of bacteria.

But essentially, you couldn't, there was no fucking freezers, you know.