Calling posh mumsnetters (and plebby ones who are into poaching): Does rabbit count as game?

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Have got a rabbit (whole one from a French supermarket) and my preggy friend is worried that she can't eat it because it is game.

Does anyone know if it is?

Am not posh, am also not a poacher.

I think it is game.

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but if it is from a French supermarket, then it will be "un lapin" - does LittleLapin know you're about to cook her hutch-mate?

Think it is game.

ma also not posh or a poacher.

Game - it's wild and runs around the fields

It is definitely Game.

oh dear. ta for the replies. looks like we're going to need a preggy alternative.

just to check - is the consensus that you shouldn't eat game when preg?

am planning to keep this from littlelapin - what she doesn't know.......

why should she not eat it? It's free range after all

game is fine in pregnancy I think well I ate it

Yes, 'tis game and v.v. yummy too

Yum yum bunny rabbit. Very tasty. Didn't know you should avoid game in pregnancy, at least I knew that all the other things I ate were against the rules before I ate them

Only reason I can think of to avoid game is so you don't eat the lead shot and so give baby lead poisoning (not sure if this would happen anyway). If it is from a supermarket it probably isn't wild and hence has not been shot. I definately ate game including rabbit while pregnant.

why on earth can't you eat game in pregnancy? it is either meat (venison, rabbit) or fowl (pheasant, partridge etc), all of which is fine assuming it is properly cooked.

rabbit you usually casserole for about 5 hours to make it tender enough to eat so no risk there

Eeeh, I was visiting a friend who lives in t'country this week - her DH had shot a pheasant out of the back window (in their garden, that's allowed apparently) and a wood pigeon out of the front window , and then out on her 6am run she saw a hare that had been killed by a car - so he went to pick that up and they had game pie.

(She's not pg mind you)

Why wouldn't you be able to eat game? how odd.

I don't know, to be honest. I ate rabbit in both pregs, but live in the French countryside so it was pretty much compulsory.

Wendy - our local mairie has a long list of exactly what you can shoot/catch at any given time. Folk here seem to be hunting animals I've never even heard of.

I ate it when pregs

it is game
pg friend is ok to eat it though

some people avoid eating long-hung game during pg as it can get a bit... high

Game

Fine to eat as long as its not pink...i.e. well cooked like in a casserole.
Game (theoretically wild) is more likely to have nasty things in it therefore lots of countries (where real game is more common) tell pg women not to eat.
As long as its cokked well she will be fine...its making my tummy rumble though so I'm going to finish making my dinner...Bambi not thumper!!

According to the River Cottage Meat Book by H Fearnley thingummy, which is my bible on such things (not being posh or poacher myself but HFW of course being both), if it is from a supermarket it will almost certainly be farmed.
I don't think this is any less likely from it being farmed.

When my parents have had rabbit from French supermarket lately (discussed with them in detail after my debacle with a rabbit from a dodgy stall at the farmers' market) it's been very tender, which suggests farmed also.

Not that any of this matters as everyone agrees it is fine to eat whatever.

I mean, "I don't think this is any less likely from it being French".

If it's from a supermarket it has been farmed. I didn't know you could not it game when pg. Is it for toxoplasmosis? it only needs to be well cooked.

I meant well done. and cooked well. possibly with lots of lemon, parsley and taggiasche olives