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 think the dad sounds very resourceful and well educated to be cooking badger and visiting the NHM with his children, can't believe anyone would question the visits to him in the woods?

OP i must come on and say what a fabulous thread and it should definately go in classics - ive been laughing all day!

Is his name Bear ? 🤔

It may not be such a bad idea to live in the woods
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hallowes

IMO it is only ok if it's to a Forest School or ex has a £25k shepherds hut in those woods, must, sorry.

Now if he'd only bought his rustic free range organic badger from Waitrose, or even in a Aldi/Lidl multi BBQ pack...

I went on a foraging course recently and everyone on it was terribly posh. No badgers though.

my DD once came home from a weekend at her dad’s house and related that he had found a dead deer by the side of the road, brought it home and butchered it in the bath.

i don’t have a point to make, i just needed to get that off my chest.

I liked the recipe on page 3, just the sort of thing Liz Upton would come across. I've made her pulled pork and it's fantastic.

Why would he steam it??

He didn’t have a pressure cooker, Gnu.
That’s why.

Kids are good. Have grilled them

This is taking it too far.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Gloucestershire, HRH pricks up his significant ears at the prospect of another avenue for profit.

Duchy Originals Badger, anyone?

Coming soon to a naice farm shop near us.

Just recently a close relative of mine was late visiting his dying brother because he 'had to dig a trench for the roadkill deer carcass'.

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

I assume it will be labelled
"WARNING- May contain nuts*

Taking your thread at fb, your kids will be fine. Copied this from another site - An FSA spokesman said 'there had not been a single documented case of someone developing human TB after eating infected meat'.

Also whats with everyone sticking their noses up at badger meat. Is it somehow different from cattle, poultry and pigs? meat is meat is meat and unless you are a non meat eater you dont get to say one type of animal shouldnt be eaten over another.

I have family that live in a very remote area of rural France. Apparently it is not at all uncommon for locals to slam on the breaks and stick fresh roadkill in the car Boot for a free meal or so! I rather like badgers though ....was that really the only meal option available for the kids?

Courtesy of DH's contracts in the construction industry and the number of wildlife audits that have to be carried out in specific areas, I know more than I wish about the re-homing of badgers from one site to another courtesy of concrete setts and appropriate materials to block off previous tunnels; the habits of the badger; their family structure and how to attract the main influencer across to the new home etc.

However, I am now permanently indebted to the OP for this insight into dining al NHM on badger. Should our supermarket shelves empty and I fail in fighting with staves for dandelion leaves I now know what to do with any hapless badgers that die in my proximity.

Breakfast (or may I call you Brockfast?!?!) "WARNING- May contain nuts* made me lol!

We have so many squirrels that I keep trying to persuade dh and the dcs to have tree chicken for Sunday lunch each week. No luck so far but perhaps when Brexit food shortages bite......

Mum: "Why did you feed our kids badger?"

Dad: "Because they were hungry"

Should our supermarket shelves empty and I fail in fighting with staves for dandelion leaves I now know what to do with any hapless badgers that die in my proximity

One word @arranfan

BREXIT

"it is not at all uncommon for locals to slam on the breaks and stick fresh roadkill in the car"

Indeed. In fact it would be frowned upon as wasteful to leave it by the road (even though it isn't, technically, legal, but rural France has a very loose interpretation of such questions).

We have a badger in the garden. If theBrexshit apocalypse happens soon i now have a good backup. Nice!

Is it somehow different from cattle, poultry and pigs? meat is meat is meat
Well, badger isn't farmed so presumably isn't subject to welfare practices and other controls. Which may, or may not, be a good thing

I have a very noisy hedgehog in my garden that I've been threatening to cook for a while, and I've seen a great recipe for southern fried squirrel, intrigued as to what badger tastes like though, I wonder what the best condiment to serve it with would be...