My kids' dad fed them badger

[Loulamummy]

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?

Wheresthebeach you’ll never find badger on a supermarket shelf - the stripes really confuse the barcode scanners.

I find this totally plausible. I've seen people charging phones in McDonalds, and the other day saw a man unplug the kiddies train thing outside Tesco to put his phone on charge.
I once bought something on ebay, took me a while to find the address when collecting, turned out to be a New Age guy living in a disused road tunnel. He powered his lap top with a solar panel and.got his internet and TV from a satellite device.
My brother (in NZ) won't eat any commercially produced meat but will eat road kill, his son hunts with a cross bow to feed his family.
My OH is very resourceful, we went to a BBQ and he wandered into the woods with his air rifle and came back with two rabbits for the the grill. His tip is to find rabbits where the wild garlic grows for the best taste.

Weasel Wimpy, Harvester Harvest Mouse grill and Greggs Grizzly bake NastyCats,

Your ex would really appreciate a pressure cooker for Christmas.

A whole badger done in 40 minutes. Yum.

To think like a badger and be like a badger, you've got to taste the badger. Only then can you live in an underground tunnel and eat tyres.

I’m suprised no one has pointed out that badger and rice isn’t a very balanced meal. Where are the vegetables?

And I don’t think you can get TB from eating infected meat. As long as your children weren’t breathing near a coughing badger then they should be ok.

This is why badgers need to cover their mouths when they cough.

@UrbaneSprawl 😂

Incredible thread, bravo

So your kids are wandering round the natural history museum with their homeless dad steaming badger for 4 hours???

This sounds like something from Roald Dahl, a greatstart to a kids book anyway.

KristinaM
This is why badgers need to cover their mouths when they cough.

Yeah, the filthy bastards.

Oh, this thread is bringing me much joy.

I'm imagining the phone call with the GP's receptionist.

"And what's the reason for the appointment?"

Are you allowed to eat Tupperware picnics in the NHM?

This thread is making me wonder about the advert for 'Badger Snacks' we often pass on the A6. We'd blithely assumed it was named merely for its proximity to the River Brock but maybe they have a darker secret. Well, a light-dark-light-dark-light secret...

This is a wonderful funny thread, it's brightened up my morning no end I really hope it's real and if in the case that it is, maybe get the children tested for TB at your local surgery and maybe tell dad to stop with the roadkill lol

I just did an image search for badgers before writing that post, to check the facial stripe pattern... I never knew there was such a thing as the American badger, nothing like as distinguished a beast as ours.

I love this thread!
I'm another one who would find out if the woods camp is suitable and let them visit there if your ex is general reliable. What an eye opener for a 9 and 7 year old.

I’ve seen a few camps in wood locally. They seem to be quite well set up, a lot of people there have jobs so could charge their phones at work, in their cars they also have solar panels and camp fires that charge.

Oh god this is brilliant, it's like the MN of old

Am intrigued by the 'badgers are carnivores so we can't eat them because they can poison you' bit - surely badgers are omnivores like pigs/wild boar, which we definitely CAN eat?

Honestly the dodgiest part of this is the steaming. Who steams meat, FFS? A nice stew with some foraged wild garlic and burdock root would have made more sense.Carrots would be nice if you had any...
What do you call a badger with a carrot in each ear?

Anything you like, he can't hear you..

To actually answer your concern, OP, this is from the NHS website:

“Tens of thousands of diseased cattle, slaughtered after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis (bTB), are being sold for human consumption by Defra, the food and farming ministry,” reports The Sunday Times.

Following an investigation, the paper says it found that the meat is being sold to caterers and food processors by the government’s food and agriculture department, despite being banned by most supermarkets and burger chains.

It is important to note that your risk of catching TB from eating meat from an infected animal is minimal.

No time to RTFT, but I NEED to know: why did he send you the picture of the dead badger?

The biggest concern about this is why you’re sending your children for contact in the woods. Is it court ordered contact? No homeless person would be taking my kid out on the streets to god knows where, even if he was their father.

Mmmmmmmmmmm badger

Brilliant! I feel like crap & was up half the night with a poorly baby. This thread has cheered me right up!

I ate a squirrel kebab once at a Country Fair for an extortionate price, I can't recommend it, it was really chewy & quite bland.

So there was a dead badger in London?
It was steamed for 4 hours but he still managed to take them on a day out.
You allow your children to spend the day with their dad who is living in woods?
And TB is your main concern