The Camel Market

There's a small section in Casablanca called the haboos (I have no idea what this means), and within this section of the city there's a camel market. Buyers don't purchase camels --they purchase camel meat! You walk up to a vendor, ask for camel meat prepared in any number of ways, and then you carry it to a nearby restaurant where they grill it for you on skewers (they call meat prepared in this way "broschettes").

We went with some friends our age to this market today, and they took us to a vendor they trust. We'll leave out pictures that may unsettle the stomachs of the squeamish (you pansies!!!), but if you're feeling really frisky when we get back we can show you the camel heads and such.




Here's the final product. It actually doesn't taste all that different from seasoned beef --we really enjoyed it with grilled tomatoes, onions, and some mint tea. You're supposed to either stuff the meat and veggies in bread or just pick it up with pinched-off sections of hobbz (arabic for bread). This was a great experience and we had really good conversation. However, we just ate all of this food this morning, so we'll see how our stomachs feel over the next few days.