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Roadkill, would you eat it?

  • 12-04-2017 02:09PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭


    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?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Dafuq?! No!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭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".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Duff


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,009 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 19,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    That's fowl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭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...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭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*)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭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'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    No, but I'll watch it on youtube.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 487 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    Why did the badger cross the road?






















































































































































































    To see his flatmate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,117 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    For all we know we could have often eaten it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Absolutely not.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    For all we know we could have often eaten it!

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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 106 ✭✭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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    I's got me some hogs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,117 ✭✭✭✭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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭Feisar


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

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭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.


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