An exotic dish has caused a stir in a university canteen in Germany: kangaroo chilli.
The meal was recently served with Basmati rice in the canteen of a university in the Bavarian city of Erlangen, the newspaper Münchner Merkur reported on Sunday.
The communications department at the Friedrich Alexander University said although a few guests on site asked for confirmation to ensure it was indeed kangaroo meat, the dish was overall very well received.
"The planned approximately 400 portions were sold, and we received a lot of positive feedback," the university was further quoted in the newspaper as saying.
A user on the social platform Reddit posted an excerpt of the menu under the headline: When the canteen is in an experimental phase again.
Users exchanged views about the taste.
"Can highly recommend kangaroo, tastes very good," one person wrote.
Directly below came an opposite opinion: "Kangaroo meat tastes disgusting."
Kangaroos in abundance
There was an estimated population of 58 million kangaroos in Australia in 2002. They are among the most abundant large wild land mammal on earth.
There are 48 species of macropods in Australia and of these, only five can be commercially harvested. In addition, two species of wallaby are harvested in Tasmania.
The kangaroo industry is worth around $200 million per year and directly employs 4,000 people.
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