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?

Does anyone else have the theme tune for Bodger and Badger running through their head?

Probably just me....

What's the betting this will crop up on every "What have you eaten today?" thread.

I'll start.

B Weetabix and toast, cup of tea
L tuna and salad on wholemeal
D Badger and rice, glass of Chianti

Honey badger??

I vaguely remember an Old Testament prohibition on eating badger, which probably means it doesn’t store well.

People, keep up. They don't go to the woods, he had them at the Natural History Museum. Just realised that is pretty ironic.

Given the NHM charges £3 for a can of fucking Pellegrino I think bringing your own badger to eat is probably a growing backlash trend.

Was he called Bodger?

Snapped and farted was embarassing bollocks. This is actually quite funny

I’m sure he was winding them up, i can imagine doing something similar to my children.

Mmm, Honey Badger

I'd rat on him to the NSPCC. No kid would eat badger voleuntarily.

You haven't met dd. Would refuse to eat a McDonalds but will quite happily eat kangaroo, pigeon, goat and frogs legs. Draws the line at rabbit. Kids are weird.

My dd is 7 and would rather eat her own toenails than a badger. Thanks for the laugh op

I am sad I’ve nearly got to the age of 50 and never seen a badger

Now I know why

No vegetables?!

What a thread to wake up to

Did he serve Kale with it? If not then YANBU.

The sett menu. Inspired!

🎶Bodger and Badger
Bodger and Badger
Bodger and Badger
Are never far away 🎶

As an aside, I didn't realise that Bodger (Andy Cunningham) died last year

You haven't met dd. Would refuse to eat a McDonalds but will quite happily eat kangaroo, pigeon, goat and frogs legs. Draws the line at rabbit. Kids are weird.

I was trying to fit "vole" into a pun, rather than making a comment about kids.

Ferret the truth out of him, OP!

There is a man who eats badgers. Not sure if it is the OP's ex - he's called Arthur. There was a programme about him, although it's not available on the BBC website. Might be on YouTube somewhere. Arthur was married (and TB free as far as I know). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008sc9m

I hope it was brown rice at least.

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.

I've eaten badger stew. But it wasn't roadkill. . No I wasn't ill, yes it was tasty. More porky than beefy.

I'm not sure why people find it strange that someone could be camping in the woods and eating roadkill, or why they think that person wouldn't have a mobile and find a way to charge it up. As for the person who said 'You allow your children to go on contact visits with this man?' - you try and stop contact visits, my ex was a nutter and I was threatened with jail because I didn't want my daughter to visit with him. My guess is, it will take more than a dead badger in a museum before you can stop contact.

It all sounds perfectly feasible to me. I'm actually wondering what badger tastes like. We've got a guy coming for dinner over the weekend who does survival courses for a living, I might ask him to bring a badger so I can try it if he knows.

Good morning mumsnet. I was supposed to be running today but instead I’ve been sat reading this for 20 minutes.

Just suggested to Ds that tonight we are having badger mince and he cried. I bet the OP did BLW which is why her two are such good eaters!!!