Eva Mendes has fallen for the oldest trick in the Australian Prankster’s Handbook: serving up hairy kangaroo tails and convincing your foreign guests that these are some kind of delicacy.
“I was shooting a movie in Melbourne and decided to take a road trip to Uluru. I hooked up with these spectacular Aboriginal women who insisted on cooking for me.
They got these kangaroo tails, wrapped them in tin foil and threw them on the fire, with the hair still on them. Kangaroo tail tastes like the worst beef jerky you’ve tasted in your life.”
And for dessert, Eva explained she was given grubs:
“They serve up grubs for afters. You find a tree, crack open the branches and there are these fat old worms, ready to be slightly fried and eaten.
After eating the kangaroo tails, the grubs were like the world’s finest tiramisu, believe me.”
Australians do eat kangaroo, you can buy the meat in supermarkets and butchers, but mostly it is sold as pet meat because it has a very strong flavor that not everyone likes, obviously Eva Mendes being one of them. They are considered a sensible source of food as they are not farmed but caught from the wild.
There’s also a feeling that Kangaroos are ‘cute’ so people don’t want to eat them, and there’s a long standing joke that we’re the only country where you can visit the symbol of Australia at a zoo, then go out to dinner and eat it.
Kudos to Eva for trying new things and local customs. Particularly since the grubs I think she’s talking about are witchetty grubs, which can be eaten raw or cooked. They taste like eggs I’ve heard. I’m unsure of what film Eva was making in Australia, but she has three films currently in the works, Last Night, Bad Lieutenant:Port of Call New Orleans, and Queen of the South.
Eva Mendes is shown at a photocall in Italy for her movie Live on 2/26/09. Credit: BARM/Fame Pictures
I like Eva. She’s very normal for hollywood, from what we see of her. Not to mention she is so beautiful!
I love the dress, that’s a color I could never pull. I like the shoes.
I’ve seen Bear Grylls eat enough grubs to know better. Poor thing and tail? they didn’t even give her like a roo steak?
I loved the dress, too! I recently saw Lindsay Lohan photographed in a very similar dress and she looked dreadful. This dress looks great on Eva.
I’m afraid I’d lose a great deal of weight if that were my only sustenance.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
The poor kangas. They are so cute. But who would go on a road trip from melbourne to uluru? that would take FOREVAHHH!! Getting 2 the next state ova takes long enough!! That’s why u take a plane!
I like Eva, though. She purdy.
what’s going on with her face. she is usually naturally stunning. but i’ve notice since her ‘rehab’ stint she’s been looking thinner and older.
her looks are hittin’ the wall a lil bit.
jussayin.
dope-ass shoes though.