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Badger With Chianti: Cooking Tips from a Roadkill Fanatic
AFP via Spiegel Online ^ | October 01, 2013

Posted on 10/03/2013 9:01:36 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Arthur Boyt eats animals killed by cars. He stews badgers with the head on, and he loves the taste of labrador. He'll even eat carrion several weeks old. Once you've picked the maggots off and cooked it, the meat tastes really good, says the British pensioner.

Cats, foxes, badgers, mice or dogs, killed and mangled by tires and left to rot by the side of the road. Most people simply drive past and feel disgust with perhaps a tinge of sorrow. But Arthur Boyt scrapes them up and has them for dinner.

Roadkill eaters devour whatever they find. Boyt, 74, a retired researcher, collects the furry accident victims and takes them to his remote house in the beautiful county of Cornwall in southwestern England, the AFP reports.

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"I've eaten stuff which is dark green and stinks -- it does appear that if you cook it well, its rottenness does not hinder one's enjoyment of the animal," Boyt told the AFP. "It's not in the taste of the food; it's in the head. It's a threshold you have to step over if you're going to eat this kind of stuff. You say 'OK, this is just meat.'"

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Cook Badgers with the Head On

Here's his recipe for badger stew: Leave head on, coat with flour and herbs, and braise for five hours.

The retired researcher's favorite dish is dog, which he says tastes a bit like lamb. He has eaten two lurchers and a labrador that had been hit by cars. He insists he tried to find the owners before eating them. But, after failing to do so, he washed them down with red wine.

(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...


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To: higgmeister
Having eaten roadkill in my youth and I must say this is nuts. Leave the carrion for the turkey vultures!

And the Inuits?

21 posted on 10/03/2013 10:16:32 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Salamander

Maybe with some AC/DC lyrics...


22 posted on 10/03/2013 10:18:37 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Har!

I was just looking at the ‘please save our pets” fire/emergency window stickers.

They have DOG CAT OTHER check boxes.

I bet if I filled out what the “OTHERS” were, they wouldn’t come in.


23 posted on 10/03/2013 10:22:35 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Slings and Arrows

A long time ago, when I lived and worked in Idaho, one night on the way to work there was a traffic back up on highway 95. It seems that a semi had whacked a moose. When I was able to finally drive by, I saw the huge critter. It was still alive, though laying down. Found out later that the meat ended up at the county jail. They feed ‘em roadkill all the time, I was told. Moose, elk and venison is pretty darned good stuff. Glad to see that it doesn’t go to waste.

The rotten stuff this guy is talking about is just plain gross though.


24 posted on 10/03/2013 10:23:59 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Throw All The Bums Out.)
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To: Salamander

Put down “rats.” It’s not a lie, they just have...unique containers.


25 posted on 10/03/2013 10:37:27 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: EternalVigilance

*shrug* British cooking.


26 posted on 10/03/2013 10:38:20 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

lol...


27 posted on 10/03/2013 10:47:45 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Throw All The Bums Out.)
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To: cloudmountain

Oh yuck...indeed.


28 posted on 10/03/2013 10:58:04 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (A pox on the House of Apple and the ios7 horse they rode in on.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oooohhhh...I just got that.

:D


29 posted on 10/03/2013 11:18:52 PM PDT by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Slings and Arrows
his badger stew - yummo -


30 posted on 10/04/2013 12:50:13 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; Salamander
Dinner Music Anyone?
31 posted on 10/04/2013 2:09:12 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
"Don't blame me if I'm slingin' Bambi,
I'm just a man tryin' ta' feed my fambly - roadkill"
32 posted on 10/04/2013 4:54:22 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!

BADGER WITH CHIANTI - and I thought this was a headline from TMZ about the latest in Amish celebrity romance.


33 posted on 10/04/2013 8:19:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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