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To feel disgusted that I ate roadkill.

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MaryPoppinsMassiveSack · 05/02/2013 11:07

The other day I got back from work to find a beautiful chicken (I assumed) pie and honey roast veg waiting for me. It was only afterwards, when I saw the carnage in the kitchen, that I was informed that, following a bump on the way home, DH had claimed the life of an unsuspecting PHEASANT! "It was fresh" was his response.

It was also dead tasty, but I'm a bit grossed out by the whole thing, and the kitchen looks like Emu and Orville have been going at it.

Would I have eaten it if I'd known in advance? Probably not. Would you?

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Sugarice · 05/02/2013 11:34

Yes I would eat it and lucky you having a dh who plucked it and made a lovely pie for tea. Grin.

Narked · 05/02/2013 11:35

I think hanging makes them taste stronger - more 'gamey' - as well as making the flesh more tender.

Trills · 05/02/2013 11:35

YABU to be disgusted that you ate roadkill

How is a pheasant that ha been run over different to a pheasant that has been shot?

YWBlessU if you would find all pheasant disgusting (although there's no real logic there)

YANBU to find it unpleasant to eat meat without knowing what it is before you eat it.

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MaryPoppinsMassiveSack · 05/02/2013 11:37

roadkill pheasant is not full of lead, unlike a shot one. so this is the healthy option. I'm maybe not as disgusted as I was initially thanks to many of your answers

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Hullygully · 05/02/2013 11:37

Oh I agree!!!!!!!

So much nicer to eat a chicken that's been kept in a cage with its feet and beak removed, stuffed full of antibiotics and then slaughtered cruelly.

Yum yum

OHforDUCKScake · 05/02/2013 11:40

If it was killed by the car then yes I would eat it.

If it was found dead by the side of the road I think id pass.

Skull hanging in the car? Thats not nice.

Narked · 05/02/2013 11:41

DH has nearly taken one out before on his bicycle. He was going downhill on a country lane and a pheasant plopped into the road in front of him. He managed to brake and swerve but one of his bidons went flying out of it's grip and landed on the bird. Luckily it was empty and the bird was a bit shocked for a minute but then flew off.

catsmother · 05/02/2013 11:41

I would have been amazed and grateful if my DP had cooked anything let alone a "proper" pie. I happen to like pheasant and wouldn't have had any qualms about eating it as roadkill assuming there were no obvious signs or smells that there was anything wrong with it before it got run over.

sparkle12mar08 · 05/02/2013 11:42

Meh. Meat's meat. You can't get logically squeamish about one type over another...

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 05/02/2013 11:45

i remember reading once that it's illegal to take a pheasant that you've run over (counts as poaching) but not one that someone else ran over. Anyone know if this is truth or an urban myth?

Merrylegs · 05/02/2013 11:49

ooh. Now you've said he hung it in the shed I'm feeling a bit queasy. They turn really quickly. Not to mention being nibbled by rodents.

Next time (if there is a next time!) if you don't want to eat it straight away put it in the freezer (prob pluck it first though!). They don't need to be hung.

(That roadkill law is bonkers though. Who would pick up someone else's roadkill?)

VeganCow · 05/02/2013 11:52

So, you'd happily eat a chicken thats either had a terrible life/death or both, yet are 'disgusted' at eating something that probably had a great life and died almost instantly?
I dont eat anything that lived, but if i was made to, a factory farmed living thing would be the bottom of my list of choices and your pheasant would be top!

Paiviaso · 05/02/2013 11:54

I was a vegetarian for 12 years- my first meat after 12 years was roadkill pheasant. Nothing wrong with it :)

We also kept the tail feathers as cat toys.

ClaraBean · 05/02/2013 11:55

I would eat it, definitely!
And I wouldn't object to the skull either, I think that is quite cool (and no, I'm not a 15 year old goth Grin )
I would do something arty with the feathers too, pheasant feathers are beautiful.

VeganCow · 05/02/2013 11:55

Just read the bit about the skull as a trophy.

Why?

PostBellumBugsy · 05/02/2013 11:57

Merrylegs, it is very normal to hang game for a few days (or more if you like a really strong flavour). Generally speaking hung game is suspended somewhere cool so that it is away from the ground & anything that would nibble it.
You can buy supermarket meat that has been "aged" - have a look in the steak section next time you go into your local supermarket & the really expensive stuff is often "aged".

rollmopses · 05/02/2013 11:58

Pheasants are some of the daftest birds with clearly suicidal tendencies. One needs a lot of skill and patience to avoid running them over.

Merrylegs · 05/02/2013 11:59

yy - hung properly is fine - especially if it is going on to be sold. But in a shed on a bike? Honestly, there is no hanging of game here - it's shot, it's plucked, it's cooked or frozen.

Merrylegs · 05/02/2013 12:00

(Can't believe am having a pheasant conv - am a veggie! But live on a shoot)

Flobbadobs · 05/02/2013 12:01

It's theft by finding under the Larceny act 1916.
Naughty... Grin

foofooyeah · 05/02/2013 12:03

Dont mind the skull its the Multipla I was more squeamish about Grin Grin

5Foot5 · 05/02/2013 13:11

We did this regularly when I was a child. My Dad's way to work was along a lane where there were often straying pheasants (TBH I don't think he made a great effort to avoid them would probably swerve to the other side of the road to make sure he did get it--)

Don't see how this is worse than eating one that has been shot.

Keeping the skull is a bit weird. Mind you we sometimes kept the tail feathers.

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MaryPoppinsMassiveSack · 05/02/2013 13:27

The skull has been boiled so is clean and hygienic. DH's latest idea is to decorate the skull with sequins before mounting it. The mind boggles.

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ENormaSnob · 05/02/2013 13:33

Think yourself luckky you're not married to bear grylls.

Last night he dragged a sheep carcas out of a bog and made a sleeping bag out of it Grin

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MaryPoppinsMassiveSack · 05/02/2013 13:38

Oh crap, don't give him ideas

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