It's dove season

[Oldcarpy2]

Sacred cows do make the best burgers…

I can’t imagine hunting something so small that you need a lot of them for a decent meal. Doves, squirrel, meh too much work.

At least the scrawny little squirrels we have in Canada and the little doves in Mexico.

But I have had crickets on tacos and they are tiny and tasty.


Tecate

Nice bit of Squirrel?

I had a colleague that ate roadkill.

Anyone?

I have tried Frogs legs.  OK, bit like chicken.  And snails, both in France.

Never understood why some fellow Brits sneer at the French eating snails when they happily eat Whelks.  Which are horrible.

I like Winkles but being so small they are hard work.

[Oldcarpy2]

Pretty sure I have eaten Rat.

Was in Morocco and was meant to be Lamb Tagine.  But found very small vertebrae bones in it.

Didn't taste like Lamb.

Salmonella ensued.

Good way to lose weight quickly but I wouldn't recommend it.

I was wondering why in the hotel the bidet was in front of the loo.

Turned out it was quite practical.....

[andy06shake]

It does look tasty...

[andy06shake]

Pretty sure I have eaten Rat.

Was in Morocco and was meant to be Lamb Tagine.  But found very small vertebrae bones in it.

Didn't taste like Lamb.

Salmonella ensued.

Good way to lose weight quickly but I wouldn't recommend it.

I was wondering why in the hotel the bidet was in front of the loo.

Turned out it was quite practical.....

Food poisoning is a nightmare at the best of times.

Even worse when you are on holiday....

[Oldcarpy2]

What's wrong with the quote button?

Even more worse when it's your honeymoon.....

[Tecate]

I have had alligator, escargot and the usual mussels, clams, octopus, calamari etc,
but not whelks or winkles. I may have eaten rat in Kyrgyzstan but definitely ate dog (it was really good actually) although I didn’t know until after.

Being an Alberta boy I was brought up on some of the best beef in the world, and I can be pretty conservative in what I usually eat. My wife is Mexican and is always trying to get me to eat some of their “delicacies”. Some type of worm, scorpions etc.

I have tried most street food there but, sometimes I don’t think it’s cooked enough so I pass.

Meh…

Tecate

[Oldcarpy2]

I like Calamari but won't eat Octopus as they are sentient intelligent and wonderful creatures.

[Tecate]

I agree, I only had it once and felt the same. I also won’t eat shark.

Tecate

[rickymouse]

The only doves I see around here are the morning doves.  They are not that big, seems to me you would have to eat three of them in a meal for one person. Our outside cats got one one day, the male pulled off the feathers and gutted it and they both ate it and then went to lay down by their food dishes to wait to be fed. 

I used to know some Italians that ate pigeon.  They raised them and even took in some wild ones.  Because some escaped, there are a variety of different pigeons around here now and not many people eat them anymore, actually they would be a good survival food.

In the winter here one year I saw a pigeon sitting on someone's chimney and it got dizzy and fell in.  We were insulating a house, and saw it happen across the street.  So I went over and told the person, they opened the ash door and I guess the pigeon came out and flew around in their basement.  They finally caught it and hauled it outside, but it got injured somehow and it couldn't fly, just ran down the sidewalk to the snow covered road and booked down the road.  I guess it was flying in the basement, but it couldn't fly when they brought it out

[argentus]

The only doves I see around here are the morning doves.  They are not that big, seems to me you would have to eat three of them in a meal for one person. Our outside cats got one one day, the male pulled off the feathers and gutted it and they both ate it and then went to lay down by their food dishes to wait to be fed. 

I used to know some Italians that ate pigeon.  They raised them and even took in some wild ones.  Because some escaped, there are a variety of different pigeons around here now and not many people eat them anymore, actually they would be a good survival food.

In the winter here one year I saw a pigeon sitting on someone's chimney and it got dizzy and fell in.  We were insulating a house, and saw it happen across the street.  So I went over and told the person, they opened the ash door and I guess the pigeon came out and flew around in their basement.  They finally caught it and hauled it outside, but it got injured somehow and it couldn't fly, just ran down the sidewalk to the snow covered road and booked down the road.  I guess it was flying in the basement, but it couldn't fly when they brought it out

I suspect all birds are delicious.    I know that chukars, sage hens, pheasant, doves, ducks, geese, chickens, grouse, pigeons, quail and turkeys are delicious.   Therefore, one might surmise that all of them are so.  If we accept that humans are allowed to consume creatures for their protein,  then we must assign rules to govern their consumption.    I have my own rules that are far more stringent than the laws where I live.  

When I was 7, my father gave me a Daisey . 177 pellet gun.   I loved my rifle.   He told me that anything I killed, aside from bugs and rodents, I was obligated to eat, so as to not waste them.    I shot a sparrow, and he made me pluck, clean, roast and eat it.   That lesson has stayed with me all my life.   It's a good lesson.