On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Robert A. Baron wrote:

> A friend of mine knows the chef/owner of a well known French Restaurant in
> Vienna Virginia.  One day Venison turned up on the menu.  Inquiring, my
> friend discovered that the chef had shot the deer in his own back yard.  To
> tease his friend, the chef, he tried to suggest a new name for the dish:
> something like "road kill deer," but couldn't figure out how to translate
> "road kill" into French.
>
> Any suggestions?

     Uh, yes. If your friend's chef charged anything for those venison
dishes--and maybe even if he charged only for the rest of the meal, I
suggest that he keep quiet about it unless he'd like to see the chef
arrested. It is a violation of federal law to sell any game, any time,
anywhere. The venison, "wild boar" and so forth that are served in
American restaurants are legal only if they were imported and/or raised
on game farms. These are provisions of the Lacey Act, adopted early in
this century to suppress market gunning (a law for which I, as an
enthusiastic hunter, am eternally grateful).

     Hank Burchard * [log in to unmask] * Washington DC