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?

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

True, I have that particular badger of honour, Dalek.

[Aeroflotgirl]

I watched a programme, where people look for roadkill and store it in the freezer, that maybe.

[notavictim36]

Believe me, Vet, given half a chance, a badger would eat you or anyone you cared about. Am sure I read it in the Fail once, so it must be true

[SmallDalek]

Harriet yep game set and match to you.

[BarbarianMum]

Badger os a traditional Englush meat. Mrs Beeton did a recipe and everything. (True)

After Brexit we'll all be eating them.

[notavictim36]

Bruegel

Badger burgers. Perhaps It will catch on. Like a few years back when the Hipsters were eating muntjac burgers and wild boar.

[Loulamummy]

My son said it tasted like beef but less chewy. All these questions about how he charges his phone etc. are things I wonder, but as we are not really on speaking terms (texts only) I will probably never know.

[pikachupoo]

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

Every time you explain it gets weirder

Am I asleep?

[Sunflowersforever]

A man in a cinema notices what looks like a badger sitting next to him. "Are you a badger?" asked the man, surprised. "Yes." "What are you doing at the movies?" The badger replied, "Well, I liked the book

[SmallDalek]

Barbarian we will only eat English badgers though because the foreign ones won’t be able to get into the country

[stormsneverlast]

thegreatbeyond Never in my 5 years on mumsnet have I commented on AIBU but 'Sett menu' made me laugh so hard I'm vibrating

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

So according to your son, badger is nicer than beef?

Hmmm.

[ProudThrilledHappy]

Alas poor Badger.

Who will make Toad slow down now?

[SmallDalek]

Seriously though I’d ring the GP to see if they need a TB shot

[peachypetite]

Why did you have children with this man?

[pikachupoo]

ProudThrilledHappy

It might be Bodgers friend actually...

Mashed potatoes anyone? Instead of rice

[SmallDalek]

And if you can’t get an appointment just keep badgering the receptionist until she gives you one.

[Loulamummy]

Thanks SmallDalek. I think I will do that.

[BruegeITheElder]

Why did you have children with this man?

Presumably he wined and dined her.

[ProudThrilledHappy]

The funny thing is in my house we describe all meats as chicken because that’s all DS will eat.

If this is true then I just have to applaud you on raising kids that’ll eat badger, when it is actually described to them as badger

[thegreatbeyond]

storms sorry :)

[BruegeITheElder]

A quick google says "there are no known cases of people contracting TB from eating infected meat"

[Streambeam]

[pikachupoo]

How many people eat badger? Is it ever a thing? Like royal family posh type thing?