Game for a laugh

[chickenfeet]

Another food poll but with a theme, inspired by misia's post this morning. I'm interested in what kinds of wild game people have eaten. For the purposes of this poll the relevant foodstuff must have been shot, trapped or otherwise obtained from the wild. Farmed does not count.

ETA - The first appearance of "bear" should read "deer"

[Poll #698939]

Comments

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

And deer I think.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Also venisons.
We get rather a lot of roadkill on the A44, and friends of ours occasionally pick up good ones and make pies.

Should the first bear be a deer?

[rosinarowantree.livejournal.com]

I have eaten fish caught by my husband in person, but neither of us have ever been shooting. I have eaten a wild pig which I saw shot and butchered in Africa. Otherwise, I am basing the idea of what was wild on the packaging in our game mercharts. If it said Wild Mallard, Wild Rabbit etc I'll believe them. Yes, and deer too.

Re: Should the first bear be a deer?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes it's a typo

[tanuja.livejournal.com]

Venison.

I know that fish probably don't count, but a friend of mine used to regularly go to Alaska salmon fishing and another friend used to go Tuna fishing from Santa Cruz. Both wild salmon and freshly caught tuna taste amazing.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Almost any fish tastes way better if it's really fresh. Certainly cod and mackerel taste very different to the stuff at the fishmonger. With you on the wild salmon too.

Venison...

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

...and if anyone says that fish don't coun't they've obviously never met a salmon in person.

Re: Venison...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's a well known fact that fish don't count. They don't have fingers and toes.

Re: Venison...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

You mean that nice Captain Birdseye lied to us??

Re: Venison...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I should know. I used to work for him.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

And venison.

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Deer here too.

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Gonville and Caius College had a habit of feeding us birds with shot still in them, but I didn't keep a note as to which.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid we used to get stuff from friends who shot. I hated having to chew through bird shot.

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Have eaten large amounts of African antelope - kudu, springbok, oryx, eland, also warthog, ostrich...actually most of the unusual foodstuffs I ticked in your previous polls were game and hunted.

I'm sure I've been fed other small mammals at some stage, but I can't think of any at the moment.

Again....I know there've been more than just the "standard" wild birds, but for the life of me I can't think of them just now...

I should probably note that I come from a hunting family, so much of my childhood food consisted of my dad/aunt/uncle/family friend's prey. And 85% of my exotic holidays have been spent on African game farms. Never went beyond fishing myself, but I can pluck a pheasant and skin a hare. And gut fish. And I've been known to follow trails with a dog, if needs be...my dad's disabled, so if a critter does a runner he usually sends someone else to do the finding. Luckily he's also a very good shot, so this happens infrequently.

Animal lovers of chickenfeet2003's flist - please don't hate me!

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

I have certainly eaten boar, bear and deer that were hunted. I am not sure about the springbok and kudu and whatnot that I ate in South Africa. I assume they were farmed. As are the buffalo and ostrich which are a pretty normal part of my diet. I have also eaten alligator (not farmed as well as farmed), rattlesnake and iguana. I can't remember if I've actually eaten possum. *grin* Might have had a bit of possum stew at a potluck. I like to eat and try new things, can you tell?

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Other large mammal: North American Antelope
Other small mammal: Porcupine (not recommended), Beaver (inedible)
Other feathered critter: Pretty much everything legal in Oregon and a couple that weren't. Sage Grouse, Chukar, two kinds of Quail, and Doves, in addition to the list. Also Robin and Scrub Jay (when I was a kid I'd try anything).

You can probably guess that I grew up in a hunting family; a significant proportion of our diet was wild game. Of the ones I checked, the only things I didn't kill myself were Moose, Wild Boar, and Antelope. I may have eaten Bear sometime, but can't remember for sure, so didn't check that one.

[gillo]

Capercailie once - very small and full of lead shot so I'm pretty convinced it was shot in teh wild!

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

I've just thought: do we have a definition problem? What Europe calls an elk is what America calls a moose, with the strange webbed looking antlers. But I have seen representations of what apparently are called elk in America, which are nothing like European elk; they're just very big deer with ordinary antlers.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I was using NA terminology:

Moose = alces alces
Elk = cervus elaphus

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Other large mammal: Gnu

I ate a roadkill snake too..where are the reptiles and amphibians?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I've eaten a partridge I killed myself, moreover. And several game birds killed by Jaguar - XJS, not panthera onca. My ex-boss had a habit of aiming for them on the private estate where we worked.

I've also eaten a number of wild-caught fish - by which I mean fish caught by someone I knew, eaten within three hours of catch. I think my general dislike of cooking with fish stems from the fact that nothing ever tastes quite as good as e.g. fresh-caught mackerel does.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Really fresh fish is a delight and mackerel deteriorates faster than anything else I know. I can't eat fishmonger's mackerel. Anything more than about 12 hours old is too old.

[ironed_orchid]

I've eaten Duck, Turkey and Goose, but not sure if they were farmed or caught.

Also eaten Possum and Wallaby.

I guess that all the reptiles got included on the previous weird food polls.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'd be fairly sure that the turkey was farmed. AFAIK wikd turkeys only exist in N. America.