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?

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

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

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

Harriet yep game set and match to you.

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

After Brexit we'll all be eating them.

Bruegel

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

Hmmm.

Alas poor Badger.

Who will make Toad slow down now?

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

Why did you have children with this man?

ProudThrilledHappy

It might be Bodgers friend actually...

Mashed potatoes anyone? Instead of rice

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

Thanks SmallDalek. I think I will do that.

Why did you have children with this man?

Presumably he wined and dined her.

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

storms sorry :)

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

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