[Mishmash] FYI: Fwd: ACT/ Protest Australia's Mass Kangaroo Kill

[David Brown]

Quite some years ago I was taking a group of Venturers, scouts between 15
and 18, cross country skiing in the snowy mountains.  Our camp site was near
a road.  During the evening we heard a car pass and then the unmistakable
sound of a rabbit being hit.  The boys raced off and collected it.  Their
idea was to play soccer with the poor thing.  I realised the inevitable
outcome; guts all over the camping area.  This did not appeal so I suggested
that we cook and eat.  The boys were appalled but once I showed them how to
skin it they were hooked.  It tasted good too.

Cheers

David

-----Original Message-----
From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net]
On Behalf Of Richard Barth
Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 1:08 PM
To: Mishmash
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] FYI: Fwd: ACT/ Protest Australia's Mass Kangaroo
Kill


>
>I have only had to take teasing from a couple of people here about the
>Tennessee road kill law. Most people here are very knowledgeable about the
>subject as the deer is plentiful here.   There are only a few who are
>illerate enough to think that people in Tennessee scoop dead things off the
>highway and eat them.  Yeck!!  Basically the law was made because it was
>against the law to eat meat without it being inspected, and people who hit
>them wanted to take them home because they are plentiful and people like
>their meat.

I don't understand why it's unacceptable to eat something that's been killed
by
a car (assuming it's freshly killed, and not something that's been sitting
out
there all day) but perfectly OK to eat something you've shot.  At least with
road kill you don't risk your choppers biting into a piece of buckshot.

As a side note, there's this T-shirt I saw on a friend of mine a few weeks
ago.
 From Benny's Road Kill Cafe, somewhere in Texas:  "You kill 'em, we 
grill 'em."

>   I have tasted it and it has a little bit of a wild taste that I
>don't personally enjoy, but some like it.  There are ways to prepare it so
>that the wild taste is not no prevalent I have been told.

I had venison once when I was a kid.  My father had some friends who were
hunters and gave him samples.  I can't recollect from that long ago what it
tasted like, but like you've I've read that preparation can tame the 
gamey taste.

Dick