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My kids' dad fed them badger

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Loulamummy · 15/11/2018 23:46

I'm not joking. We are separated and he sees them for the day once every few weeks. Last week he took them for the day in London and when I picked them up they told me, very casually, that Daddy had given them badger with rice for lunch. He had sent me a picture a few days earlier of a dead badger so it is totally plausible, and given that he has been homeless for the last couple of years and often 'lives off the land' I am certain he would not think twice about eating a badger. He told the kids that he steamed the meat for 4hrs but now i'm really worried about the whole TB thing. They seem fine but not sure if I should get them checked out. Any words of wisdom?

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Carpetglasssofa · 16/11/2018 07:46

Locally-raised, organic meat. Really don't understand the problem.

Lovemusic33 · 16/11/2018 07:44

I’m more impressed by the fact your kids ate it, I can’t even get mine to eat a stew let alone steamed badger.

If they are still alive and healthy I would presume it’s safe. Maybe ask him next time to feed them something a bit better, maybe squirrel or rabbit, badger isn’t that nice which is why most animals won’t even eat it (other than crows, they eat anything).

OzzyMadBat · 16/11/2018 07:44

I wondered what happened to Jerome Flynn

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 16/11/2018 07:43

Was it a free-range organic badger?

HariboLecter · 16/11/2018 07:40

sett menu
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YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 16/11/2018 07:31

Oh God - Sett Menu has finished me

Bimwit · 16/11/2018 07:26

Not RTFT but i want to reassure OP - cooking easily kills TB so no risk there.

Badger is a traditional food, badger ham was a thing. I'm a taxidermist and they are REALLY meaty! I do eat roadkill but badgers seem to putrify quickly so never had one i was confident to eat.

Ur exDH is a man after my own heart and seems really resourceful! Quite Envy that he got the kids to eat it because DD wont even touch legit venison!

brizzledrizzle · 16/11/2018 07:26

Was it badger?

3WildOnes · 16/11/2018 07:25

Lots of people live in the woods in benders and tree houses. There was a community living in the woods in runnymead. There are wind up phone chargers, solar powered phone chargers but homeless people often use portable chargers that they charge up when they visit a cafe or anywhere else with a power point.

Surfskatefamily · 16/11/2018 07:25

Do you trust him to adequately cook wild animals to ensure its safe? If so then no problem. I think its great to eat that way rather than farmed meat. Its a bit strange sending kids to a camp in the woods though. I would insist on going to take a look at the place

AnotherOriginalUsername · 16/11/2018 07:24

I wouldn't have any qualms over sending my offspring off with this man. I'm not sure what badgers are like inside the M25 but down here in rural Somerset, they aren't what you want to meet on a dark night. Any man who can dispatch a badger with his bare hands (because that's totally how I'm picturing it having happened) can look after my children.

treaclesoda · 16/11/2018 07:23

I can't even get my kids to eat fish, I'm very impressed that they casually scoffed down badger and rice for lunch.

SoupDragon · 16/11/2018 07:20

Weasily the oddest lunch ever.

ValidUser · 16/11/2018 07:19

I personally prefer my badger with quinoa.

Hezz · 16/11/2018 07:18

Badges are vicious fuckers. Lucky it didn't break his arm.

Unless I'm getting confused with swans.

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 16/11/2018 07:18

Ex New Age Traveller here.
I'm also finding this plausible and not even especially unusual tbh.
I'm imagining OPs ex in a bender or caravan in the woods, eating roadkill.
If he has a wood burner for heating it would be very simple to steam something for several hours as the heat source is already on, anyway.
Pps have mentioned badger meat needs to be cooked a long time so, on the face of it, it sounds like OPs ex has followed the recommended method. I don't think it's possible to contract TV from meat anyway.
He can charge his phone from a car battery or leisure battery.
I think it sounds like a lovely day out tbh.
OP: If you ex is generally a safe person, I would consider allowing the children to visit him in the woods and see how he normally lives. It could be a really interesting experience for them.

Smidge001 · 16/11/2018 07:17

Are you sure he said he steamed it, rather than poached it OP?

waxy1 · 16/11/2018 07:11

I’d be bristling!

Harebellmeadow · 16/11/2018 07:05

Maybe OP could post the picture of the raw material for the Sett menu - the badger in question. 😁

waxy1 · 16/11/2018 07:02

We don’t eat no stinking badgers!

notyourmummy · 16/11/2018 06:59

I once met a child who assured me she'd had hedgehog for tea the night before. I was almost convinced until her mum reminded her she'd had turkey dinosaurs and chips....

thenewaveragebear1983 · 16/11/2018 06:58

Good morning mumsnet. I was supposed to be running today but instead I’ve been sat reading this for 20 minutes.

Just suggested to Ds that tonight we are having badger mince and he cried. I bet the OP did BLW which is why her two are such good eaters!!!

Pywife2 · 16/11/2018 06:57

I'm not sure why people find it strange that someone could be camping in the woods and eating roadkill, or why they think that person wouldn't have a mobile and find a way to charge it up. As for the person who said 'You allow your children to go on contact visits with this man?' - you try and stop contact visits, my ex was a nutter and I was threatened with jail because I didn't want my daughter to visit with him. My guess is, it will take more than a dead badger in a museum before you can stop contact.

It all sounds perfectly feasible to me. I'm actually wondering what badger tastes like. We've got a guy coming for dinner over the weekend who does survival courses for a living, I might ask him to bring a badger so I can try it if he knows.

Luglio · 16/11/2018 06:53

The only parts of a badger that humans can consume without becoming violently ill are the hams, or hind legs, which are only palatable if smoked.

I've eaten badger stew. But it wasn't roadkill. . No I wasn't ill, yes it was tasty. More porky than beefy.

DaveGrohlsBeard · 16/11/2018 06:52

I hope it was brown rice at least.

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