text: For the midnight Christmas meal of 1870 , Choron proposed a menu principally composed of the best parts of the animals kept in the Jardin d'acclimatation ( one of Paris ' zoos ) -- stuffed head of donkey , elephant consommÃ , roasted camel , kangaroo stew , bear shanks roasted in pepper sauce , wolf in deer sauce , cat with rat , and antelope in truffle sauce -- has become legendary .
simplified: For the midnight Christmas meal of 1870 , Choron proposed a menu mostly of the best parts of the animals kept in the Jardin d'acclimatation ( one of Paris ' zoos ) -- stuffed head of donkey , elephant consommÃ , roasted camel , kangaroo stew , bear shanks roasted in pepper sauce , wolf in deer sauce , cat with rat , and antelope in truffle sauce -- has become legendary .