Kentucky restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen

yahoo ^ | 10.2.2012 | Mike Krumboltz

[Morgana]

Customers at the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg, Ky., alerted authorities after they spotted something they probably wish they hadn't: restaurant employees wheeling roadkill back to the kitchen.

Local CBS affiliate WYMT interviewed the witnesses. The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. "There was actually a blood trail they were mopping up behind the garbage can," customer Katie Hopkins said. "There was like a tail, and like a foot and a leg sticking out of the garbage can, and they wheeled it straight back into the kitchen."

Local health inspector Paul Lawson was called in to investigate. Lawson said the restaurant owners told him they didn't know they were doing anything wrong. "They said they didn't know they weren't allowed to do that. So that makes me concerned that maybe they could have before. They didn't admit to doing it before." The owner said he didn't plan to serve the deer to customers—instead he planned to use it to feed his family.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

This roadkill was actually part of the Michele My Bell, the new “Food Furher” and her plans for organic foods on the menu.

[Ron C.]

Morgana, Morgana - fresh killed deer is fresh killed deer meat! There is little difference between a deer that has been shot and a deer that has been killed by being struck by an auto. Both only need quick work - from someone who knows exactly what they are doing.

I've been lucky enough to find several deer hit by autos on the road to my work-site - all still were 'warm to the touch.' All were immediately 'dressed' - all provided very good food.

If there is no body heat then it is harder to skin the deer, but that does not mean that the meat is going to be bad. If the musk glands were ripped open by the impact, that's a different story - possibly making it less than satisfactory, depending on how much of it went where. But, even that can be dealt with by a knowledgeable hunter.

I wouldn't recommend recovering a deer for the table to just anyone. It takes a LOT of work, and it has to be done immediately - and whoever is doing that work better know everything he/she needs to know. Otherwise it wouldn't be wise to tackle the job.

[Docbarleypop]

not positive, but I believe its unlawfull now in MN for the HP to donate euthenized deer to food banks. I had beed in Sicily because my friend hit a cow that was on the road to the Air Station. He paid for it and the herder got a friend to butcher it, pretty good

[CSM]

Yeah, they should get their meat from the grocery store where it’s made! /s

[Kenny Bunk]

I have never heard that done in my area.

Well, you never were an orphan in Maine, neither.

"Please Sir, May I have some more?"

[Kenny Bunk]

I have never heard that done in my area.

Well, you never were an orphan in Maine, neither.

"Please Sir, May I have some more?"

[Kenny Bunk]

You have my vote.

Hey thanks, Lurk! But the Road Kill Cookin' and Embezzlement is only a small part of my savory past. I made it as far as Selectman and J.P. until the whole story came out.

If I ever get back in, you are the Deer Warden.

[aruanan]

Okay, Louisiana, I can understand.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What politician doesn’t have a sordid past?