Did anyone see the programme about roadkill?

jennybb

For the less squeamish of you, there is a doc. on BBC 3 tonight - The Roadkill Chef - might be interesting.

moggins

LOL, I was just going to post about this, I only spotted it because I was watching Spendaholics

jennybb

my OH spotted it - he's a bit into foraging etc

waspie72

Me spotted it whilst watching Spendaholics too! Watched some of it - dont think I could do it.. the badger was just a bit tooo much for me!

LJD1_2

Is it true that if you run it over you can't take it but the car behind can? My father in law was behind someone when a deer (venison?) ran out and as he had a friend who was a butcher took it home and they ate well for weeks! Not sure if I could!

hazzie123

Would that mean I could eat next doors cat,if it accidently got ran over?:rotfl:

sophiesmum_2

My brother has a harris hawk that he flies etc. He often picks up roadkill,rabbits etc and chops it up for the bird.He keeps it in a freezer in his garage:eek: along with the frozen rats and mice he buys:eek: :eek: :eek:

I'm all into foraging and free food but a bit too squeemish for roadkill. My ex FIL was once cycling home from work and a truck delivering creates of chickens to a processing plant had turned over. A little way down the road he saw two chickens at the side of the road.Managed to catch one wrung its neck and took it home for ex mil to pluck:rotfl:
Not strictly roadkill but close.

sophiesmum

loopyloulou_3

with Fergus the Forager? I was facinated by this (and am planning on finding myself some sloes for sloe gin).

He ate road kill instead of buying meat. As a veggie I would never eat it - no matter how it was killed - although I can see why he does it. (I would be far too worried about eating something that was diseased!)

Would anyone here go as far as eating road kill?

allIcouldwishfor

Heard a story about someone who picked up a nice looking dead pheasant off the road and put it in the boot of their car.

A few miles later the bird woke up and started flapping about in the boot, having only been stunned, and made a right mess of the car boot, blood, feathers and "other stuff" everywhere!!

I've never had the gumption to do it myself. I've never plucked and cleaned a bird so I wouldn't know what to do with it when I got it home anyway!

getcarter

I did watch it but has to turn over, he was examining a squirrel that had been run over, checking what bones were broken and he maniputated the skull and pronounced it had been crushed - that was too much for me!

moggins

I couldn't do it. I remember watching my sister gutting and plucking a chicken once, I was only a child and the memory of the smell still lives with me

Even fish, I can gut them but once I've done it I cannot eat the fish, so I usually do when they are fresh and then freeze the fillets for a few weeks until the smell is out of my mind.