roadkill.

[Rootsman]

(14 November 2011, 11:59)mikebratcher69 Wrote: Oh yes, dont forget Badgers carry T.B. so I dont know if their safe to eat as long as you discard certain bits?
Go on whos gonna try badger first?

When i lived on the road,we spent 4 years travelling in eire, we was parked up with some horsedrawn friends and one time there was a large roadkill badger all butchered an cut up into portions and sizzling away in the frying pan on the open fire, it smelt ok an looked like lumps of red chuck steak,
The chap (german chris) who was cooking it offered me some an as i'm up for trying most things i tucked in, it was quite tough(probably needed a bit longer in the pan)an tasted quite strong an gamey but went down a treat, it was weird cos the dogs wouldnt touch it for some reason, which i must say was a bit worrying what with TB an all that, but we were fine with no bad guts or ill efects, in fact we had it the next night too, the mrs knocking up a beef curry so i wacked a bit more badger in for good measure, and it fed everybody nicely, mmm, beef n badger curry you cant beat it

We ate a lot of road kill in them days an i used to go out with me two lurchers an come back with a couple hares which make a wicked munch, While we were over there me other half gave birth to our second son (we have 4 sons)in the back of our horsebox, it was excellent cos it was just me the mrs and german chris' other half who was into midwifery, so between us we helped deliver my son an i got to cut the cord, and we saved the placenta an i put it in the oven an roasted it (it looked like brain,lol)after taking a blood sample from it for the doctor the next day . Anyway when the placenta was cooked i had a piece of it it looked a bit like corned beef when cooked, but it tasted well bland and needed seasoning, i shoulda chucked some garlic in with it an some oxo or summat to give it a bit of flavour, i must admit it did make me gag a bit so i gave the rest to me Rotty who had just had pups herself an she gobbled it down no messing, packed with nutrients an good stuff it was a good tonic for her who had 5 hungry pups suckin on her as much as they could get away with. It was weird in a way cos i was feeding a part of my son to the gaping jaws of a hungry rotweiler.

Waste not, want not eh?