[UPDATE: Never Mind!] Arizona Restaurant Serving Lion Meat Tacos

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 25, 2011
UPDATE, TUES., JAN. 25, 10:13 A.M.: Never mind. The restaurant has scrapped its Mufasa tacos due to “safety concerns and death threats.” ORIGINAL ITEM, JAN. 24, 5 P.M.: What is it about Arizona restaurants and lion meat? Last summer, around the...
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