Cook who served kangaroo meat no longer employed by western Nebraska school [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

Kangaroos in their native Australia. An Omaha chef who has eaten kangaroo meat said it is “dark red, faintly gamey-flavored.”

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By Joe Dejka and Bob Glissmann / World-Herald staff writers 6 hrs ago

The cook who served kangaroo meat to students at a western Nebraska school without telling them no longer is employed by the district.

Some students at the junior-senior high in the Potter-Dix district unknowingly ate kangaroo last week when the school’s head cook added it to some chili. He told the school district’s superintendent that he had done so “because of its nutritional value and because it is a very lean meat,” the superintendent, Mike Williams, wrote in a letter to parents.

Williams said the school, which is in Potter, has 87 students in grades 7 through 12. Potter is about 20 miles west of Sidney in the Nebraska Panhandle.

In the letter, dated Wednesday, Williams apologized to parents. He wrote that if foods or ingredients are out of the ordinary, “they should be listed on the menu so that the students and families are aware of what they would be being served.”

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