'Would you eat roadkill?' poll results/discussion

wildthing01

Gordon_the_Moron wrote: »

The comments about as long as it wasn't squished or hadn't been there too long are just ridiculous, obviously it needs to be in an edible state, thats like saying I would eat the mushrooms in my fridge, as long as they are not covered in mould.... HELLO!!! DUH!!!!
If you are going to eat something it needs to be fit for human consumption, surely to god that much is obvious.

yes, but you know how long the mushrooms have been in your fridge and what state they were in when you bought them. you have no idea how long the roadkill has been there, or whether it has some disease that you can't see.......

lazza_w

Pagg wrote: »

Yes, especially if it dented my bumper.

I hit a deer at 60mph a few years ago - smashed the radiator and did £1600 worth of damage so I wouldn't recommend aiming for them at high speed as a money saving scheme. Having cost all that money I though the least favour it could do in return was to allow me to gut it and butcher it in the shed. Still an expensive few cuts of meat.

eeyores61

Was about to write 'aargh no, how disgusting' when I realised I've eaten pheasant twice from roadkill . A right pain plucking the feathers then pulling out the guts without breaking the gall bladder though.
Like brewing:beer:, baking bread and making cheese from scratch, and I've done them all, I think there's a good reason for letting others prepare these things unless you're really struggling.

Actually I've never planted or harvested grapes, barley, hops or wheat - or milked a cow - so I spose that's not from scratch after all!

biddleje

We've had deer, rabbit and pheasant from the roadside. Last Sunday afternoon a pigeon flew into our sitting room window, causing a big bang and instant demise of said pigeon. Within an hour it was in the frying pan and a very welcome addition to dinner!

katehesk

I probably would eat road kill to be honest. It depends though, I couldn't pick it up from the side of the road and prepare it myself. As a meat eater and an animal lover I always try to keep a real sense of what is on my plate, and put myself through shows on TV such as 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it' which were just horrible, but at the end of the day that's what happens, I just don't think I could do it though

If I saw a dead animal on the side of the road, I personally think the last thing i'd be thinking is, 'yum, lunch'.

And, I would never eat another predatory animal, grazers yes, but people eating crocodile and Tiger's (yes this has been proven and happened in China) is just disgusting. I can't explain my logic about that, it just wouldn't sit right with me.

nellykim

I'd gladly eat roadkill if it was a pheasant or deer etc, but I don't really want to eat someone's beloved cat or dog.......... ( wrote Tramsay )..........

vitamin_joe wrote: »

What if it was a cat or dog that the owner didn't particularly like?

:T haha !....I like........... !:rotfl:

nellykim

vitamin_joe wrote: »

I saw that too. Quite an eccentric fellow. He'd written a book of recipes I believe. He also had a big freezer full of labelled bags, like 'badger august 2008', ''rabbit, september 2008', 'stoat october 2008'... eurgh!

By the way, if you eat a roadkill leopard, does it give you the runs?

I'll get me coat...

dont know Joe... but dont bother with eating a hamster..it'll just run circles around you..

( Joe my coat's next to yours.. pass us it )

kalahariuk

I found it interesting, the amount of posts saying "I've heard" or "I think" or "I've read somewhere"....."that it's illegal to pick up a pheasant if you were the one that killed it, but that it's fair game for anyone else and his dog that happens to be in the vicinity" this seems to me to a particularly woolly law, even by this country's standards, and appears to have it's immutable truth deeply couched in Word-of-mouth !
so I decided to look it up .... whaddya know: it isn't illegal !
(see Hingston's law website, under poaching and roadkill) (that isn't the only source I found refuting this legal urban myth - in fact the only source I found CONFIRMING this "Law" was a question and answer page , where all the answers started "I Think", "I've heard", "I've seen it written", or "a bloke in a pub once told me")
what probably happened one day is that someone saw someone kill a pheasant, decided he wanted it for himself, and said to the 'killer' "You can't 'ave that, mate ... that would make you a poacher, That's the law, everyone knows it, better give it 'ere!...."


oh, and for the record:
Roadkill, Assuming someone had safely made it for you - would you eat roadkill?

Definitely ! (have done, will do again) - nom nom nom

freshoneproductions

Hi there,

We are a television production company in London and we are currently in the process of curing badger ham and following a given recipe.

I wondered if anyone would have some badger ham by chance for us to taste or anyone who has previously made it and could advise us on taste etc.

If you could reply to this and maybe we could discuss further, it would be GREATLY appreciated.

Regards