[exDemMom]

It has never occurred to me that swan could be eaten. After seeing the pic you posted, I looked on Google and found a recipe for cooking swan:

11. For to dihyte a swan. Tak & vndo hym & wasch hym, & do on a spite & enarme hym fayre & roste hym wel; & dysmembre hym on þe beste manere & mak a fayre chyne, & þe sauce þerto schal be mad in þis manere, & it is clept:

12. Chaudon. Tak þe issu of þe swan & wasch it wel, & scoure þe guttes wel with salt, & seth þe issu al togedere til it be ynow, & þan tak it vp and wasch it wel & hew it smal, & tak bred & poudere of gyngere & of galyngale & grynde togedere & tempere it with þe broth, & coloure it with þe blood. And when it is ysothe & ygrounde & streyned, salte it, & boyle it wel togydere in a postnet & sesen it with a litel vynegre.

Apparently, people routinely ate swan a *long* time ago.

[cripplecreek]

LOL Olde school cookin.

[Kirkwood]

Cajuns will eat anything.

[wrench]

There are 5000 permits a year for taking Tundra Swan in N.C.. They taste like Canada Geese, but are much bigger. A large retriever is highly recommended.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I’m still imagining that swan stuck on a spit ....

Sure, you get the spit up the bottom, and (I geese) up out through the neck) butt how do yo cook the fat, wide, heavy bottom of the swan even while not burning the skinny little long neck?