My kids' dad fed them badger

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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?

This thread has had me laughing although I'm not sure wether to believe OP or not! If it is true, I'd hazard a guess that he's having them on

On a serious note, homeless people so have phones and do get them charged. We've become friendly with a local homeless man who has asked DP to keep an eye on his (basic) phone whilst it was charging in McDonald's once. DP has taken to giving this man money and I keep saying we should ask him if needs anything specific and the other day I did and he actually said he'd had his phone stolen, so we bought him a new one [santa]

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What excellent replies. Really MN youbhave out done yourself tonight. Take a bow.

I believe you OP

I can't sleep for pissing myself laughing! The sett menu! I'm dying. This is as good as snapped and farted!

Oh,I didn't realise that you could eat badgers. Wish I had known,as two lovely badgers spent four nights digging up my front lawn a few weeks ago,, would have saved me a few quid on food that week.!!

What next,cats? no.no.no. I have three, they are my little precious ones!!
I am in Hertfordshire by the way, wonder if it was one of my lawn diggers that was eaten, !!

• TB or not TB? That is the question.* 😂👏🏻

Unacceptable.

Badger & rice is purely carb & protein. Surely in the woods he could have steamed some wild apples or other fruit in order to make it a balanced meal

squirrel sausage rolls are amazing

Anyone else wondering if they can order badger to go alongside the Christmas turkey?

kateandme

squirrel sausage rolls are amazing What does swquirrel tatse like?

squirrel even

English is not my first language, (it is).

I've been hearing a lot about this on your news tonight.

Brocks Eat, yes? No?

Roadkill stew, and Mustgo stew. Not unheard of.

Google “eating roadkill”. It’s a thing.

We could start a new recipe book. 101 ways with badger. I'm guessing if it tastes like beef the first one would be badger Wellington.

Thank u this thred has saved me from insomnia hell.
Sett menu ... fucking classic.

this is as good as snapped and farted But does it make you want to scream at the Sistine Chapel???

Crappygilmore I was struggling tonight but htis thread helped distract me from the nasty stuff in my head.

Haven't RTFT but TB in humans is a human-to-human, respiratory pathogen that is specific to humans, and you could not catch it from a dead badger.

I don't get the "sett menu" joke?!

But what if the person eating the diseased badger is a right cow? Is the jury more out on that one?

Would have been better to LTB(adger) and just eaten the rice...

When will they be stocking it in Waitrose? We must be told.

It could replace the 5 Bird Roast at Christmas: a badger, stuffed with a fox, stuffed with a hedgehog, stuffed with a rat, stuffed with a toad. Or your own variation, obviously.

Perhaps I should suggest this over on the Christmas threads.

If it's properly cooked I can't see how they'd get TB. Pasteurization kills TB bacteria, so steaming it certainly ought to.

The only parts of a badger that humans can consume without becoming violently ill are the hams, or hind legs, which are only palatable if smoked.
Badgers are carnivorous. We do not eat carnivorous animals for a reason.

Eating roadkill is particularly dangerous as one never knows how the vehicle has hit the animal, and if the stomach or intestine is ruptured this can poison the meat.
This is why you should never accept roadkill venison for example.

I imagine the OP’s ex husband was having the children on, they would have been very sick by now otherwise.

I want to know more about where in the woods he keeps his Tupperware collection...