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?

I was holding it together until I got to badger biriani.

Maybe a badger bhaji to go with it?

Surely the best thread title ever.

Better steaming in the Natural History Museum than screaming in the Sistine Chapel.

ErrolTheDragon

You can also get ginger badgers.

OP I hope he cooked mushrooms with them

@ffffffffsake , while I am naturally sympathetic to homelessness - having experienced it briefly as a child- this is not a suitable situation for any parent to put their child in where there is an alternative. And there is an alternative (if the op is real) and that is the op themselves.

You all need to stop now, this is utterly disgusting.

EVERYONE KNOWS YOU HAVE BADGER WITH CHIPS.

Are you allowed to eat Tupperware picnics in the NHM?

I can confirm that there is a hellishly loud dungeon underground picnic area at the NHM. For schools in theory but a dad with kids would not stand out.

Thanks, Dragon3, I didn't know that. Doesn't sound like it's worth seeking out...

So going forwards, long time posted but name changed, naice ham, penis beaker, badger and rice etc!!!

Crying at "sett menu"

I remember an episode of Doc Martin where Louisa's beyond irritating new neighbours burnt a badger in the garden.

Perhaps they were badgecuing it...

I know nothing about badgers or TB but the attitude here towards homeless people is revolting

I agree. As I mentioned up thread, my ex is homeless and still has the children regularly. It isn’t that hard to charge a phone these days, there are many places with charging points, McDonald’s for example.

Surprised no-one has mentioned these yet: hodmedods.co.uk/products/black-badger-carlin-peas

Anyway, roadkill, meh. It's fine as long as you use all your senses. DP and I came across a roadkill pheasant one March morning. We didn't stop as were on our way to an appointment (and didn't really fancy having it in the car for hours), and it was in a safe-ish spot at the edge of the road. Still there when we came backand the day hadn't warmed up muchso checked it over, took it home and made casserole. I was about 6w pregnant at the time.

@BlackBeltInChildWrangling
I remember that episode! Was it the same one as the guy who had lead poisoning because he kept shooting things with lead bullets? Or he was just into eating road kill? My memory is hazy but I love Doc Martin!

Chill out. My aunt and Uncle eat roadkill all the time. They live in a spacious cottage 500+ years old worth millions and are rich as Croesus. They were just brought up in the war and everyone learnt to eat anything.

I would love to have the opportunity to taste badger.

I'd be more worried that it was 'slightly warm'. I'd wonder how long it had been kept warm for. Did he cook it fresh that day or was it cooked last night and not chilled?

Bit surprised no one else has pointed that out but I haven't RTFT.

Yes. Well. If you had RTFT you'd have realised that several people expressed concern about the rice before you did. Not sure how people can say they haven't RTFT then complain about the contents of it.

As for the rest, as far as I can work out it happened like this:
Ex lives in the woods in Hertfordshire. Found a dead badger (it may have been deer, he may have lied) and steamed it. This is not impossible. Whoever asked where he got the water from in the woods, my guess would be a stream. Or collected rain water. It's England in November, the water is not an issue.

Then he met the children in the NHM. They did not go to the woods. He fed them badger there. (Bit surprised you can take your own food to eat there, badger or not but who knows). And, shock horror, homeless people have mobiles which they can charge up.

Think that about covers it. Oh, no, hang on. Yes, badgers are omnivores, yes you can eat them. Yes, you would know if road kill had had its stomach burst. It would be fairly simple to check.

Fucking rice??

Everybody knows badger loves mashed potatoes, he makes them into shapes and eats them every day

I have roadkill eating friends. Largely pheasant but other things too probably, so this is completely believable to me.
Poor Brock though.

Morning, folks. Just popping by to say that we've had a look behind the scenes here and we can't see anything to suggest the OP isn't genuine (we'll be honest, you could have knocked us over with a badger too, when we found it wasn't a wind up, but there it is).

Obviously we can never know if someone's exaggerating a wee bit, but the OP is a long-time Mumsnetter of good character and short of asking the NHM to hand over all their CCTV footage and scan it all for men carrying Tupperware (forget it, we're not doing that) we don't think we can be any more sure she's genuine. We've deleted a few posts that we felt were troll hunting.

Do feel free to badger us via the reports button if you spot any other posts you'd like us to take a look at.

I saw yesterday Papa John's are doing a purportedly 'ostrich' pizza. Maybe MacDonald 's could retaliate with a Badger Burger.

Ostriches are farmed for their meat so eating ostrich is nowhere near as unusual as eating badger.

www.sruc.ac.uk/info/120183/alternative_livestock/284/ostrich_farming

@HebeMumsnet is that a Sett decision?

I feel so ill reading this

I like the idea of badger for Christmas dinner, Turkey is horrid anyway, badger is probably more edible. I’m thinking Badger wellington might be nice? We had venison last Christmas and I can’t see how Badger is any different (both wild animals).

This was pretty much my attitude, but I've been to a restaurant that specialises in meat from African wild animals, and found myself fairly unimpressed by most of it. Can't remember all I ate, but there was definitely some giraffe in the mix. Nothing I would go out of my way to eat again. (Though I 'd guess there would be nothing wrong with most antelope, I don't recall if any were included.)

I’d be more concerned about the food hygiene levels - warm food is far more dangerous than eating well cooked badger.