Roadkill, would you eat it?

LordSutch

Just saw a big fat juicy dead pheasant on the N11, and the thought did cross my mind "should I stop, put it in the boot, take it home, pluck it & cook it"? ... but I didn't :-(

Just the thought of cutting off its head and gutting it made me think again, so I didn't, but there are people who would.

Would you?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Dafuq?! No!

MilesMorales1

Well near where I run/where the bus goes, there's a dead cat thats been sitting there for about 2 weeks now on the road. Kinda puts me off the whole concept.

Kimbot

No thanks, wouldnt be for me unless it was the only food I could get my hands on at all.

me_irl

Not once have I driven past a dead fox /dog / cat / jaysuswhatwasthat? and thought "mmm, tasty".

Won't be long now until there's some program on Channel 4 with people on the "roadkill diet".

Duff

Well, I have eaten Supermacs before while off my nugget in Eyre Square.

osarusan

Maybe if it was something I considered food anyway, and I was the one to kill it and therefore knew it was completely fresh.

So I'm not going to eat a badger or a fox I found lying dead on the road, but if I hit and killed a pheasant (in a way that didn't mangle it), I'd consider it alright.

Kimbot

me_irl wrote: »

Not once have I driven past a dead fox /dog / cat / jaysuswhatwasthat? and thought "mmm, tasty".

Won't be long now until there's some program on Channel 4 with people on the "roadkill diet".

Trademark it :pac: oh and you will have to give me 10% of all profit if it makes it :P

King George VI

Sure. But back home we didn't call it roadkill, we called it a "Ballyfermot pizza"

Winterlong

That's fowl.

RiderOnTheStorm

Not tempted by cat dog badger etc. But if I hit a pheasant or rabbit I would consider it. I mean, it was fresh meat before I killed it...

me_irl

jonnycivic wrote: »

Trademark it :pac: oh and you will have to give me 10% of all profit if it makes it :P

I'm not going to google... as with my intense lack of faith in humanity I'm pretty sure it exists already.

I mean we have a popular reality tv show where we're watching people watch and comment on tv. Ridiculous.

(*goes back to watching people play videogames on youtube*)

Stigura

I've done some pretty rank things in my life. And, yes, I've eaten road kill. But, again, only stuff I'd normally eat, had I killed it myself.

Have a young friend. He's on social welfare and so, of course, living the dream. Mildew covered walls and clothes, in the winter. He has to eat what ever he can get his hands on. Road kill is just a 'natural' part of his diet. But, the Blackbird ....?!

Anyway, ye were talking about video's? Yeah. It exists alright! I'll stitch it on below. But, do be warned; This guy's f**king sick! He's just Wrong!

There's another lunatic, on the tube. Can't remember his name. Goes under, " Food For ..... " whoever. Complete exhibitionist. Does it for the attention. But, f**k me! He will eat Anything!!!! Raw, I mean too. *Shudders!*

But, here's the creepy sick f**k:

'Enjoy'

ScumLord

No, but I'll watch it on youtube.

selwyn froggitt

Why did the badger cross the road?






















































































































































































To see his flatmate.

freshpopcorn

For all we know we could have often eaten it!

Arghus

Absolutely not.

Unless you offer me a lot - A LOT - of money. Upwards of a tenner, at least.

magentis

freshpopcorn wrote: »

For all we know we could have often eaten it!

Indeed!I have eaten some very dubious looking kebabs when pissed!

Luggnuts

Like another poster wrote, I wouldn't eat something I'd hit like a rabbit or fox or badger because there'd be nothing left of it. It would be just flattened. But if I hit a deer and didn't wreck the car I would probably take the poor beast to a butcher and have him prepare it. He could keep half the venison steaks and give me the other half. What's to be gained by dumping the deer in a ditch only to have it rot there?

ArchXStanton

I's got me some hogs

freshpopcorn

Luggnuts wrote: »

Like another poster wrote, I wouldn't eat something I'd hit like a rabbit or fox or badger because there'd be nothing left of it. It would be just flattened. But if I hit a deer and didn't wreck the car I would probably take the poor beast to a butcher and have him prepare it. He could keep half the venison steaks and give me the other half. What's to be gained by dumping the deer in a ditch only to have it rot there?

I've often seen small animals being killed on the road and they weren't flattened. Generally the slightest tip kills them! You'd have to get them fast tough!

Noddyholder

No bother to eat it, once it's still fresh and not to badly damaged.

corner of hells

I caught a rat earlier in my back garden , it's the third one this week and that ****in' lazy bastard JRT of hers doesn't start killing the rats I'm going to kill him and make a curry out of him.

* For the animal lovers , I'm only joking.

Capt'n Midnight

LordSutch wrote: »

Just saw a big fat juicy dead pheasant on the N11, and the thought did cross my mind "should I stop, put it in the boot, take it home, pluck it & cook it"? ... but I didn't :-(

:eek:

You can't just eat roadkill.

If you've seen Shogun you'll know how important it is to hang the pheasant for a while first.

Erik Shin

I was in Devon once and as we were driving towards Barnstaple the driver started to slow down as we drove thru a certain section that had forestry both sides of the motorway...I asked why, and was told that pheasants crossed around here and always got walloped by cars....
I thought, ah you're making sure they get across safely, ...He said nope, I'm hoping some other fecker hits one...The bylaw is that you can take a roadkill pheasant....But not one you've hit and killed yourself!!!

Errm no, I wouldn't eat roadkill sorry... Got carried away there

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I don't think I would pick something up off the road as you wouldn't know how long it has been there for, but if I hit something i'd be tempted. Not 100% what the law is on taking a deer, anybody know?

Had a couple of close calls with young deer on the roads around Wickla', my car would have been destroyed if I hit them.

pickarooney

I was tempted by a freshly killed boar once (it wasn't there an hour previously) but I was on the bike and they weigh about 90 kilos.

Are Am Eye

You can't eat a deer you've hit. But the next car along can.

Feisar

I dispatched a deer once that was hit badly by a car. It ended up in the pot, does that count?

CruelCoin

Depends how old it is.

If it's same day, then i'd have no issue with it.

If the "hung for x days" is anything to go by, the age of the roadkill is irrelevent.

Pat Mustard

My uncle hit a deer with his car before.

It made a mess of his car but we had venison for a while.

I don't see a problem with roadkill, provided you know that the food hygiene aspect is okay.

Stigura

Claudia Fit Madman wrote: »

I don't think I would pick something up off the road as you wouldn't know how long it has been there for .....

My Dad always taught me that, if it's blood was still bright red? Fine.

annascott

Stigura wrote: »

Anyway, ye were talking about video's? Yeah. It exists alright! I'll stitch it on below. But, do be warned; This guy's f**king sick! He's just wrong
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OQvt-gxbq5E

I remember this guy being interviewed years ago by Gerry Ryan. When asked if he had ever mooched around a graveyard and tasted human meat, he said he was not prepared to answer the question. But we all kind of sensed that he probably had...

Stigura

Mm. Same thing in that (vile) film. They pressed him on that subject. He basically said that a friend, working within the health services, had access to amputated bits and so forth. But, he fudged the question of whether he'd ever taken them up on the 'offer'.

Frankly? I've dabbled with Taxidermy, in my time. I've killed stuff all my life. But, That guy? I just get a Bad vibe about him.

Lyle Lanley

Seeing a lot more dead animals than usual on the roads recently. Is it just me or is something weird going on?

Stigura

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Seeing a lot more dead animals than usual on the roads recently. Is it just me or is something weird going on?

I suspect it's where a lot of stuff's dropping young, about now. Making the adults more desperate to find food. Thus roaming further afield and taking the risks of leaving the ditches and crossing roads.

LordSutch

pickarooney wrote: »

I was tempted by a freshly killed boar once (it wasn't there an hour previously) but I was on the bike and they weigh about 90 kilos.

That would have been very tasty, and you could probably have lived off that alone for months!

Maybe if you had been wearing a very big rucksack? :-)

Pat Mustard

Pat Mustard wrote: »

My uncle hit a deer with his car before.

It made a mess of his car but we had venison for a while.

I don't see a problem with roadkill, provided you know that the food hygiene aspect is okay.

Same here, friend hit a deer, chef trussed it up, butchered it and cooked it, cue some very neat parties.

ScumLord

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Seeing a lot more dead animals than usual on the roads recently. Is it just me or is something weird going on?

Well it's springtime so all the babies are probably wandering onto roads not knowing any better. More cars on the road, more intensive farming practices eliminating habitats, more animals moving into cities, etc..