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?

“Vole au vents”

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

It’s against the law to pick up your own roadkill in put it in the boot in the UK - although if the car in front of you does the deed then that’s fine.

I just found out there is a cafe in north London called the Battenberg Badger www.thebattenbergbadger.com

Do I want to go there?

Pilar Does their decor look like the checkered pattern you get on police uniforms?

One of my housemates at uni had a slightly alternative BF. He used to bring us and cook a lot of roadkill. Mainly pheasant, but a few muntjacs and this one time a very large barn owl that had 'accidentally' flown into his windscreen which didn't actually yield that much meat, but made a fairly decent hibou au vin, needed a lot of veg to bulk it out.

The OP and her DCs are certainly game, I'll give them that.

Personally speaking, I think I'd like my badger and rice served a little bit 'otter.

I Wildlife trust it was batmati rice?

We're all going to be eating roadkill and whatnot anyway, after Broxit.

That JR-M: he's steaming, isn't he?!

I would personally serve badger with a side of st-oatcakes.

Café serving cake made from bats, you say, Pilar?

Barn owl

Tofuness you are not wrong. The floor tiles look like that.

exWifebeginsat40

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.

Did he steam it?

Or perhaps mice cakes, 0lga?

Are they gluten free?

I'm now very worried. PP said we can't eat carnivores as we'll get very sick. I've fucked up and eaten cougar, when will I start vomiting? It's been 15 years and I'm starting to panic.

I am a little saddened so many felt this couldn't be real - or demands to not let the ex husband see the children until he's in a naice John Lewis furnished flat. A weekend camping in the woods with dad? Epic!

Either he's homeless or he lives an alternative lifestyle - the op has not been clear.

A weekend camping in the woods with dad? Epic!

Exactly. DD's dad and I are still together, but when she's a bit older I plan on taking her wild camping/ bivying rather than just the 'civilised' car-camping we do as a threesome.

Look, I think we'll all just have to agree to disagree as to whether the OP needs to sett the bar a little higher with her next partner.

And get her ducks in a roll? I'm not even going to go there.

You can charge your phone in the library?

According to DP, you can charge your phone on the buses in Brighton.

Can't understand why some people think homeless people don't have mobile phones.

Surely they're the ones who actually need mobile phones? It's not as if they have a landline, is it?

Yeah some pretty daft abs incorrect ideas about homelessness here.

This menu looks like the badger serves - not the pub serves badger

ErrolTheDragon Fri 16-Nov-18 13:34:26
People who eat roadkill tend to be a fairly self-selecting bunch.
In a Darwinian sense, if they feed it to their kids? Haha!

But on a sensible point OP- is there any way that you can discuss this with ExP? It's really not OK for him to feed your kids meat of unknown origin. Meat from butchers shops and supermarkets is killed, processed and stored using very strict hygiene rules and cooling techniques. Could you maybe say that you will feed them before they see him next time? Or that you'll give them some money so that they can all go to McDonalds or buy wraps from the supermarket?

I'd rather my kids eat roadkill than McDonalds!

Does roadkill only apply to animals killed by cars on a road? Or could you spear a badger as it crossed the road? Technically they would also be killed on a road, so roadkill?

You can charge your phone in the library?

You can charge your phone with solar power or wind up chargers or off 12 volt batteries. You don't need mains electricity.

I’ll pass but each to his own.

I 100% believe this.

I lived on a narrow boat for years, and this sort of shit went down all the time. You get a bit Hugh F-H when you live on boats too- we used to catch crayfish on the rivers, often foraged fruit, herbs, roots etc. and I know of people living off ducks and duck eggs in the fens - exDP had a rough spell of no work one winter and became expert at “living off the land”. He would 100% feed our son badger from a Tupperware in the NH museum. He also ignores rice safe storage advice

Re: charging phones- when you live on a boat, you get thrifty with the electric, as you’re reliant on battery storage, gennies etc. You become expert at charging your phone in unlikely places (buses, trains,