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Does anyone actually like rabbit?

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KathyMCMLXXII · 22/01/2007 11:29

I mean, is it always horrible or was it just that we had a particularly old and manky one?

That'll teach us to buy rabbits for £2.50 from a dodgy-looking outfit on the edge of the farmers' market....
(Only then dh and I remembered that we'd never liked rabbit on the previous times we'd had it, either.)

By the way, if Jamie Oliver happens to be reading this, you CANNOT cook a rabbit in 10 minutes, ok? Ten hours would have been nearer the mark

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FioFio · 22/01/2007 11:31

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Mumatuks · 22/01/2007 11:33

Eugh! I can't belive you ate rabbit! I'm just thinking of my two fluffy bunnies out in their hutch....
I'm guessing you don't have very young DC who would've asked alot of questions or you lied to them!

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KathyMCMLXXII · 22/01/2007 11:34

Wow, Fio, did someone catch it as part of the outward bound activities?

DH and I agreed it might be quite nice if you were in a Ray Mears sort of survival situation and actually starving.

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KathyMCMLXXII · 22/01/2007 11:37

Well Mumatuks, our dd is 19 months and very keen on animals. Before we actually had it we were discussing whether she would be able to absorb the contradiction, if we gave it to her as leftovers.
After we'd actually tasted it though, we decided it would be child abuse to even offer her a bit.
Besides, her teeth would not have been strong enough.

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Lorina · 22/01/2007 11:37

Dh and I used to quite like it ,but that was back in the oldens days when you could get it in sainsburys. I havent seen one to buy for years.

I cant imagine my kids being too keen.

Mumatuks · 22/01/2007 11:42

I had to ask Kathy, as my 3y/o DS has just started to realise that the chicken we eat was once like the ones he saw at the farm, running around! (Although he only pondered it for a few seconds before tucking into his roast!)

Bramshott · 22/01/2007 11:43

I like it - yum - in a cream and mustard sauce, or in a casserole. Agree it will take much longer than 10 mins to cook though. Did have it once in a restaurant in Spain however, and it arrived at the table complete with eye looking at me - had to put a napkin over the eye so I could eat it!!

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KathyMCMLXXII · 22/01/2007 11:45

Aw, bless!
Glad it didn't put him off his roast - a 3 year old with ethical issues would be most inconvenient.
Chickens aren't quite as cute though, are they?

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KathyMCMLXXII · 22/01/2007 11:49

Ah, clearly I should have done the 'lapin moutarde a la creme' recipe from the River Cottage Meat Book then - the Jamie recipe was probably only suitable for a tender young Sainsburys farmed rabbit with a subtler flavour.

Not sure I'll be able to convince dh to have another go though

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DizzyBint · 22/01/2007 11:50

i used to love rabbit pie. my granda used to buy whole rabbits and do the whole skinning thing. i'm veggie now though..!

NannyL · 22/01/2007 18:13

i think rabbit is delicouse

Mercy · 22/01/2007 18:18

I've had it once, maybe twice. Tasted ok to me iirc.

Lorina, I remember when Sainsbury's sold it on the odd occasion! I have seen it in good independent butchers - perhaps order one from there.

serenity · 22/01/2007 18:28

We used to have rabbit stew a lot when I was a child. Not having had it for years I was quite excited when Dh (then BF) told me MIL had done a stew for dinner. Went into the kitchen for a peek, only to find it staring back at me out of the pot. I've watched too many gross zombie films to ever be able to eat rabbit again Also found in MILs kitchen, 1 skinned sheeps head in the kitchen and a herd (?) of garden snails cooking nicely under the grill.

serenity · 22/01/2007 18:29

in the fridge that should be .......

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KathyMCMLXXII · 23/01/2007 10:55

OMG Serenity. Very impressed by your MIL's cooking habits. What did she do with the sheep's head? When I was a child there were always gross things in our freezer (my father swearing when he accidentally defrosted some bulls' eyes is one I particularly remember) but that was because my mother was a biology teacher and had to get things for dissections.

Might try the snails thing myself some time - perhaps when Japanese SIL is visiting as she seems to be up for eating most things.

There do seem to be quite a lot of votes for rabbit on this thread - maybe I will have another go one day (in about 5 years) but will make sure I source it (and sauce it) more carefully next time.

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NotAnOtter · 23/01/2007 10:56

its vile

beckybrastraps · 23/01/2007 10:57

I love rabbit. I put it in jumbalaya.

sunnywong · 23/01/2007 11:00

don't they call it the Other other white meat?

Furball · 23/01/2007 11:03

When I lived in Greece, we used to quite regularly have rabbit. Can't say I'm fussed either way about it. At Easter they quite often have a boiled sheeps head, which I did try a bit off but, no thanks. Also testicles used to frequent my plate often. Oh the joys of living with a greek family....

Furball · 23/01/2007 11:04

There was also one in the butchers last week

AeFondKiss · 23/01/2007 11:10

I have had rabbit, it was okay, like chicken, not very exciting

serenity · 23/01/2007 11:18

LOl kathy, MIL is a good cook, but some of the stuff she cooks I wouldn't touch with a barge pole (but I'm fussy I know!) Coincidentally, following from Furballs post, MIL is Cypriot. The head was cooked to make some dish I can't remember the name of, but Dh won't eat either!

If for some strange reason you do want to eat garden snails you have to leave them in a bucket for a few days with some bread iirc, you need to give them a chance to poo everything unknown out of their system.

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