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?

Seems like the late-night mumsnetters are way more fun than the day time posters.

Maybe steaming is the way forward if you're using stream water?

What a positively glorious thread! Sett Menu is truly inspired!

Thank you, OP, you've dealt admirably with the mirth this thread has caused and you've cheered everyone up! I don't suppose I'd be thrilled if anyone fed my kids hunted badger either, but I'm sure they'll be fine.

InvisibleLlama "Badgers have Penis bones???"

Yes, along with many other animals. On this page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum under Carnivora are mustelids and badgers are mustelids.

Now, we have a roadkilled badger (most common cause of badger death in the UK)

From my days in dealing with gamekeepers, I can tell you that a "surprising" amount of roadkill badgers will have shot in them if you care to look.

Should probably tell Brian May (and change username to LadyChatterley).

Badgers and beans ! Tasty

Game, sett and match to the OP.

Her ex is setting new standards for contact with the NRP.

I just hope that his Tupperware didn't have mustelids.

Really think this thread needs to be moved to Classics. I’ve never laughed so much in my life

We used to have Hedgehog crisps but that's probably not the same.

This puts a whole new slant on Badger Beer.

I fully expect to see Martin Lewis talking about steaming your own badger on the One Show next week after this.

Isn't that more Gwyneth Paltrow's thing?

Could all the nay sayers please stop badgering the op

Had to log in to say our badgers go wild for cheesecake and will wrestle a turkey carcass off the bird table.

Tupperware with mustelids!! Wonderful. OP, what did you say to your ex about this? I know you are only in contact by text. 'why did you feed our kids badger?' or something along those lines?

Im also loving this thread and noting how it spans so many topics and educating us all - the realities of homeless living, the structural make up of badger penis, the facilities at NHM, how to assess if roadkill is safe to eat - I could go on...

Yep, I was more sad about reading the comments about social services etc than anything else.

Their dad is homeless, he lives in the woods. We don't really know the set up (tent, camper van, etc). Should he be denied seeing his kids because he has lost his home?

He met them at the National History Museum for a day out. Replace the badger and rice with he brought beef sandwiches along for them and there probably would be no outcry!

He sounds resourceful, which is a good thing. I hope they had a nice day anyway. I have not tried badger.

Don't let the DWP read this!

I can just imagine Cruella de Vil aka Esther McVey - now morphed into Amber Rudd - standing up in the House of Commons or being interviewed on the news, talking about Universal Credit claimants: 'Let them eat...badger'.

How unnecessary all those trips to Food Banks are, eh?

Less Food Banks, more river banks, from now on. Just not our river banks - private fishing only, trespassers will be shot.

Get on your bikes and catch your own food - or scoop it up as we swoosh speedily past with a helpful thud in our ministerial vehicles.

That badger doesn't look that freshly dead. I hope it was not that one. 🤢

Had to log in to say our badgers go wild for cheesecake and will wrestle a turkey carcass off the bird table.

Dare I ask how you know this, Stanislas?

That badger looks tiny, it is only a baby, it has to be a joke!

Thank you OP for this wonderful thread! 😂

Get on your bikes...

and in your wheelchairs too, obviously

Long time reader, first time post (was waiting for something truly marvellous for this big moment).

Thank you OP for the thread! I have been chortling out loud on the bus and on the loo in the office at this. If it doesn't make it to Classics it will be a tradgerdy!

I will take a photo of the squirrel range next time I'm in Budgens

I heard that hedgehog was far nicer and easier to cook.
Never had it myself but know how to cook it.