Loved this recipe will definitely try it again. I stuffed the trunk with tomatoes and had nice soup

Is this for real or is someone pulling a prank?

OMG! Thank you so much to all the good humored people! I enjoyed laughing about everything! But I must say that I'll have to use a moose as I live in the mountains in New Hampshire. I'll be sure to use those hares as stuffing though! LOL! And to the 2 people that are way too serious, lighten up a little. No one was serious about this recipe... just trying to have a laugh in this hell hole called life!!

Elephants will never forget you... If I were you I'd never set foot in the jungle...

I could tell when Mom was going to make this recipe. She'd keep an elephant in the refrigerator. And you can always tell when that happens because there will be footprints in the butter.

Recipe is spot on! An important caveat as per the salt: Ordinary table salt will not hold up to the prolonged cooking times. Use coarse (Kosher) salt. Also, my "go to" gravy for hippo is always creamed possum, and racoons fat. And finally - substitute chinchilla for rabbit.

Fantastic recipe but I have way too many leftovers. Elephant is not something you want every day for two years so I probably won't make this again.

Are ALL you people CRAZY!!!???? This HAS to be a joke!!! If it isn't - where's your recipe for SKUNK??

Elephants are protected. Lea... you're right, This is a joke and a bad one at that!

I ended up having so much left over that I moved to Antarctica to keep it all frozen!

I don't know how I can use up all this gravy, maybe I can rustle up a elephant pot pie.

The addition of only 1/4 ton of onions really made a huge improvement!

It seemed really sketchy but I loved every minute of it!

Two questions: A)How much salt & pepper should I use? 2) You don't specify whether the recipe calls for an African or an Indian elephant, and D)could I substitute a rhino or something? There's been such a run on elepants everywhere recently.

where are you guys finding these elephants???

I must say, at first I thought that this was going to be a terrible recipe, but I just couldn't find another that served 3500 people! I made is and this is DELICIOUS! It is the most creative and yummy thing I have ever tasted! To go along with the stew, I made some homemade bread and I simply used the tusks to hold the butter in. Great job, keep them coming!