La viande de chameau, ou de buffle tout au plus, lui est abandonné par les grands.
-Description de l’Égypte, 1826, Tome XVIII, État Moderne
Napoleon may have preferred canard à l’orange or faisan flambé, but on the trail beggars can’t be choosers. You’ll like the taste of whatever meat falls into your hands, and when a lame camel must be mercy killed, you butcher and eat as fast as you can. In Cairo, even les Grands, the Big Shots, the Kubaar get hungry for meat, and when there is none but camel to be had, they can thank the Khubaraa’, the Trail Bosses, for bringing it up from Kordofan live on the hoof.