In Alaska, you can be put in a phone registry to pick up a road-kill moose off the side of the road. It's considered a super lucky phone call, as even the worst road kill moose has hundreds of pounds of good meat. Everyone is normally stoked for you if you get this call, and during the day, people will usually honk and cheer while driving past you as you're getting the dead moose. I never realized the weirdness of all of this until explaining the excitement of road kill moose to some friends in San Diego.
I was a police officer in a mid-Atlantic state, and we had a deer list. Whenever we got dispatched to a dead/dying car-struck deer, we'd ask dispatch to call the next name on the deer list, and some guy would eventually show up in a pickup and toss the deer in the bed. We'd fill out a tag for him so he wouldn't get dinged for having a deer carcass out of season, and that'd be that.
In Māori culture, it's insulting to plonk your arse on a surface where food might be prepared.
Eating horse meat in the US. Apparently, this is relatively common in France or Italy but would be greeted by horror here. A lot of people in my entourage are staunchly disgusted by horse meat. You can buy it here in France. It is pretty alright, honestly, but it is still terrorizing to most folks.
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