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we've just sat down with everybody here
now and you can see they're putting on
some of this hump fat and she just
poured oil all over the rice they have
their setting they're waiting on some
more food they're just like waiting for
all the side dish coming then we can
start to eat
and uh the blood because it's like a
live uh things they're gonna mix it a
bit of water and that's the one that
they're gonna throw to those families
like a blessing blessing
they need some special type of zebu to
do some sacrifice because it's not like
all the type of cebu you can use for
that i didn't i just thought about this
they don't have guns out here
so when they dispatch this
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are they just gonna jump on it
yeah that's how to do that just like
jump and
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today marks the end of our journey in
madagascar it is all built up to this
moment and this day behind us a small
herd of zebu
today we will be witness to a rare
tradition in this area in this kind of
area a lot of people are trying to move
to a different place for work every
couple of years they are coming back
here to ask some blessing to the
ancestor it's been five years since a
zebu was slaughtered in this village
today family friends and even far-flung
neighbors will join together for an
event that will feed over 100 people
it's cebu maybe some people can have
like a small piece of sea boob everybody
need to share but some moment like this
doesn't happen like every year in
madagascar's countryside zebu is like
down here in this area if you like
really like the real men like all the
girl fell in love with you you need to
fight with those zebu
these animals were brought here one
thousand years ago from east africa
especially for uh malacazi people zebu
takes like a special place now zebu are
the most prized livestock on the island
if you don't have a cebu then it's like
a really a shame on you it's like having
a shitty car in the u.s in the us if you
have a piece of crap car good luck
getting a date here if you don't have a
zebu
you ain't nothing
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this man here is a zebra seller and he
says he'd sell this one for 280
not bad what is the most prized part of
this animal that fat part in that that
will be considered for the oldest person
in that village i was born in 1984.
do i get the fan
you don't really look that old yet oh
thank you there will be no exchanging of
money now the zebu for today has already
been selected by the village sir i
appreciate your zebu selling confidence
the secrets of the trade thank you for
letting us in on all that
the walk begins it must be a male it
needs to be like a clean zebu and what
we consider as a clean zebu when it has
like a white head this one is a kind of
aggressive one at the village just a
couple hundred meters away family and
friends wait they've waited five years
so just a few more hours will be just
fine
ladies make coffee in today's makeshift
outdoor kitchen men discuss the official
matters of what's to come and the zebu
makes his way to the village and then
waits
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there is no rushing here all is
a malagasy word that means slowly slowly
first the official greetings among
elders and laying out the intentions for
the day
the younger men are appointed the
unenviable task of taking down the zebra
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more words
more speeches
okay
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this blood will be cooked and eaten but
some of it is mixed with water and used
to bless members of the community
finally prayers speeches and blessings
subside leaving us only one higher power
that i actually recognize
booze
this time in the form of homemade
illegal rump containing an unknowable
percentage of alcohol
shots down time to come
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over 100 people must eat time to work
first rice boiled then wrapped in leaves
until it's ready to eat
next cassava two ways boiled till soft
then mashed and combined with crushed
peanuts or option 2 crocodile bullets
shredded cassava shaped by hand and
fried in oil until crispy
then the grasshoppers wait what this kid
he went out and he caught a load of
grasshoppers you're going to fry these
later
when you fry these can i have one just
save me one save me one grasshopper
appetizer on the way
meanwhile dozens work together breaking
down the zebu into manageable pieces
we're attempting to cook hundreds of
pounds of meat in just a few hours the
only way to do that here boiling the
innards are next oh my god this is the
heart the lungs here and down below is
the liver that thing is massive then i
stumble upon the most prized piece of
the zebu what the f
what's going on there that's the zebra
penis and this is the zebu fat this was
the fat hump on the back of the zebu and
right now she's slowly peeling away the
skin and the fur only the best can
prepare this food and that's why she is
here right now i brought you a lovely
gift you can keep working it's okay
these are
korean noodles
i think she will like feel much more
healthier than now after eating that
well i'm not sure that it's so healthy
but it's yummy it's very yummy on the
sidelines a dedicated village elder
parses out portions of zebu to neighbors
who will take it home and share it with
their own families there are no
refrigerators here so now is a pretty
good time to eat it
the meat boils the penis boils the hump
boils but if you look behind the right
tree you'll find this yo we found a side
party behind this tree they just started
grilling the meat already in the such
place like this the young people are
always trying to make something on the
side because the cooking gonna take
really long right so they're just
grilling it straight up is there any
seasoning uh no this is just like put
salt on it and then grill it so this is
like already the one grill a little bit
of fire a little bit of salt perfect you
want some of course cheers
mmm
i don't know what part that is a little
chewy but the taste is delicious it's
very beefy but it has a little goatiness
to it it has a little bit of goat flavor
you're a good cook
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dinner is almost ready but first an
exclusive appetizer my man has his
little fried grasshoppers here it's just
like a side snack he catches his own
food he's like you guys eat the zebu i'm
going to eat my bugs you ready one two
two
juicy a little salty crunchy but wow
that's got like salt water inside i like
this kid boom boom thank you
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so far we have rice we have the cassava
mixed with peanut and then we have some
boiled zebu meat wow everyone's going to
get so much meat today i'm just
remembering back to the goose they have
to cut it in a lot of small pieces
because they have a huge family
everybody gets a piece yeah this time
it's like a feast so everybody just like
make them happy and full hey
okay
okay now we can start
uh what were the magic words there round
one mashed cassava with a surprising
ingredient cheers
oh i love that just a nice starchy
cassava what is that piece this is a
banana there's banana in here let's try
it with the banana
i just like had the banana with the fat
sibu meat they're not banana at all that
was a tremendous chunk of zebu fat not
that it's bad but when you're expecting
a banana round two elephant ear beans do
you know what the
elephant ears the vernacular name like
english people call it the elephant ears
they just like open it and get the seeds
inside and they eat the seeds of this
afterwards so it's like a beans a thin
film on the seed is removed using soot
it's then boiled with a healthy dose of
zebu meat did they put some meat in here
too i like how they just mixed a little
meat into everything these are cool i've
never seen this before first time
it's like a really starchy kind of lima
bean but a softer outside like really
meaty beans now finally it's time for
the zebu our day has built up to this
moment let's try it out
i was expecting it to be much more
harder than that but we do but you can
really feel the layers the fibers of
muscle and tissue here i gotta say the
taste exceeds my expectations this is so
much animal to cook for so many people
in a short time yeah just on that hi
there
just in a handful of pots in an outdoor
little kitchen like that oh they brought
more meat yeah oh this is the zebu heart
you enjoy it here we go
oh that is a great texture man look at
that look how juicy it is this is just
by boiling a little bit of like gaming
goat flavor it's not like 100 like beef
but i can say cebu tastes like zebu it's
something you have to try for yourself
this experience is almost complete but
if we want to try the prized zebu hump
we can't wait for it to come to us it's
taking a long time to cook it when you
turn it a bit you can see as well all
the oily holy that's all this oil is
that just cooked down yes they're gonna
eat the meat and take a bit of oil on
the rice
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should we try it okay
wow that was too big of a bite that is
so rich it's intense
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i've never even heard of it until i came
to madagascar and now when i leave how
am i gonna ever have it again you just
need to come back
deal
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the more i travel the less certain i am
about what makes a good life food
shelter a strong drink here and there we
all know what it takes to survive but
the answer to what creates a fulfilled
life changes from country to country
some people here don't have much but
many the people i've met along the way
have everything they need what i know
for sure is that this country has left a
lifelong impression on me and one i will
not soon forget
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joel my man thank you so much for this
whole experience you've been an
incredible tour guide it was a real
pleasure and uh thank you as well i
really appreciate it this whole
experience wouldn't have been possible
without rama tour joel is a part of that
actually you could book a tour with them
and have joel be your tour guide it
would have been so much more difficult
to make this trip happen but through
them they made the perfect itinerary
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peace
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you are a rock star
that was incredible
do
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you