My kids' dad fed them badger

My daughters come home from their dad's having eaten nothing but pizza and Haribo . At least badger would be protein !

Aaaaarrrrrrrhhhhh now I've lost the game!!!!!!!!!

Reading the last few replies has made me lose the game

I don’t even know how my mind connected the game to this

Great, now I have this song stuck in my head. 🙄

Mmmmmmmmmmm badger

Said no one ever.

Great thread.

There’s more than one way to skin a goat, so they say.

TheSquashyHat That skinning method works well for goat too!

Unlike the “snapped and farted” thread where I cried with laughter, this thread has made me feel physically sick 🤮

True or not, it sounds rank...

Is it like eating Swan?
It's better because with badger everyone gets a leg

I’ve come to This post late in the game .. but I am seriously chuckling here .. it’s 7 am on a Sunday and I’ve not laughed as much in a v long time ! Thanks OP for the pleasure of being able to participate in your little family’s new gastronomic venture and thanks to mumsnet for providing the hilarious dialogue ... I’ll go back to lurking now !!!

In case anyone is living in the woods (or not), whether they have a fully charged mobile or not, the best way to skin a badger is to take it to the filling station, make a nick in it's skin and fill it up with air from the compressor. This makes the skin really easy to strip off.

Don't ask me how I know this please

It has to be dead first. Just saying.

This popped up on my Facebook ... maybe this is where he will face punishment for his crime against badgers ....

Another nomination for classics

I’m crying! Classic! Loving this thread...

SheCameFromGreeceSheHadaThirst ugh, don’t remind me! I can’t look at HFW now as that story is seared on my brain.

Well we haven’t always had meat neatly packaged from the supermarket so I say good for him! But to actually answer your question I’ve found this
“DEFRA states that The Sunday Times’ claim that people are at risk of contracting bovine TB through eating meat is “irresponsible scaremongering”. It says that the Food Standards Agency has confirmed that there are no known cases of people contracting TB from eating meat.”
Hope that puts your mat rest.

Yesterday 18:19 Lostbeyondwords

exWifebeginsat40

my DD once came home from a weekend at her dad’s house and related that he had found a dead deer by the side of the road, brought it home and butchered it in the bath.

Did he steam it?

how gauche. sous-vide, thank you.

Mind you he does not live in the woods in Hertfordshire but would like to think he could. Perhaps there are lots out there who would find this more romantic than the reality of life without a permanent roof over their heads.

@BlackBeltInChildWrangling my mum used to make our local badgers bread and butter pudding in hard winters to help them get through it.

At first I thought OP was messing around but now I think this thread is not as black and white as it first seemed.

Are you my daughter in law it sounds like the sort of stunt my son would pull. If so l expect he was pulling their leg. Badger is carnivorous and would not taste good. I bet it was beef or lamb.

Sainsbury's are starting to sell crickets.

That badger is staring to sound more appetising now.

Though I must admit that the only time that I'd go for eating roadkill was if I was the one whose car had despatched it in the first place. Happens fairly regularly with pheasants in the west country! Not sure what I'd decide if it was a deer. Despite loving venison I rather hope i never get to find out!

Oh my goodness I've just read the comment about how about the ex taking the kids to macdonalds instead as a safer alternative. I thought it might be someone having a laugh but I fear not. This thread is bringing up exactly why we are fucking up our planet. How can it have got to the point where someone is genuinely so scared of and disconnected from the natural world that they'd decide that a macdonalds hamburger was a better option than wild meat?! The OPs ex clearly knows his survival skills, so the chances of him deciding to feed his kids some ageing decaying carcass are very slim (also, the kids are fine, which is also quite suggestive of his competence). Between a factory-farmed cow fed on antibiotic growth promoters and turned into slurry before being formed into a hamburger, and a bit of badger - no contest.

My DH says that skinning a badger is very difficult - like skinning a dogfish. So he's very impressed that the OP's husband managed to skin it himself.
I always thought that it's best to eat vegetarian animals and those that eat meat taste nasty. Badgers definitely eat meat and are demons for getting into chicken runs because they did under the wire fence even if you've buried it into the ground. Plus if your dog gets down a sett a badger can rip it to shreds with its enormous claws.
My first date with my DH was badger watching.