Posted on 02/19/2018 2:13:35 PM PST by Red Badger
Americans used to make pigeon stools?
its a meal in texas
Flying birds like dove, pigeon, ducks, geese can fly long and fast so they have a dark meat breast & white meat legs. Now supposedly the squabs have never flown so the breast is not as dark the same as veal is not as red as beef.
OTOH, the walking birds rarely fly and fly only short distances so quail, Cornish hens, prairie chickens, chicken , and turkeys have white meat breasts and dark meat legs.
If you don't like liver, you won't like pigeons
I don’t like liver.
Foods come and go, re what's "in" to eat.
The American colonists thought that lobsters were not worth eating and fed them to their pigs. YIKES!
But I did find this who "pigeon" /squab story interesting, though somewhat incorrect. "City folks" ( Manhattan ), as late as the mid 1960s, thought of squab as an elegant/fancy dinner/meal.
Article says the squab meat is iron rich...that might account for the liver comment.
I think about the smallest bird I would bother eating would be Cornish game hens.
Rock Dove, to be exact. And yes we ate them all the time. Thems good eatin’
Yep...marinated flank steak = LONDON BROIL and was a CHEAP meal once upon a time. It still IS delicious, but now costs almost as much/sometimes as much as Porterhouse steak.
Those very large chickens are CAPONS and what my great Aunt would make/serve at holiday/fancy dinners. I haven't seen them ( though I have seen really big chickens, but they are NOT "CAPONS" ! )in decades.
Dove is indeed the best. Used to shoot them with a BB gun out in the desert and grill them on the spot. Delicious.
bttt
I was under the impression pigeons (and seagulls) were just skin and feathers on bone and a paper thin layer of muscle.
Nothing to eat for the most part.
If things turned out differently, we could think of eating chickens the same way we think of eating pigeons. It could be pigeons that were our mainstay protein. But life turned out differently for us.
Organic, free-range, anti-biotic free, statue-raised, and hand-fed by little old bird ladies in public parks.
I would try it if hungry and did not come from in the city... i eat doves and quail, how much different would a pigeon be? That said i would not eat a dove that was shot in my back yard either.
Maybe the enjoyment of shooting them?
First time I had doves was in Louisiana. It’s a popular holiday dish among the country folk. They stew it in brown gravy. It looks like a small Cornish hen but tastes more like quail. Good stuff.
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