how do you cook your roadkill?

i'm veggie anyway and don't think i could be enticed by dead squirrel - however beautifully cooked.

especially if they'd left the tail on.

I used to live in Idaho in the mountains. there were bear, elk, and plenty of deer. The county there came up with the idea of giving fresh road kill to the senior center! There were no vegans there! So everyone gained from this, slow cooking with the right seasonings will make anything taste good! tdemex

well i have tried some wild meat before.. i can't say as i enjoyed the moose.. it wasn't roadkill though.. but the moose here eat pinecones and things anything they find in the forest.. so. to me.. that meat really tasty piney coney. And i had deer meat that was turned into peperoni.. that was pretty decent.

i'm not sure you should do that - they might have become a ripe by the time you get clarification. it's gone either in 'lets get banned' or 'rights for snakes' - can't remember which. and i also forgot to include the link if anyone is interested: http://www.guardian.co.uk...

I've seen it now, it's actuall gone under p.e. with a very un Ian Hislop type avatar. Maybe if you are into rights for snakes you didn't really like my answer but they are a dreadful nuisance out here and I've been wary ever since I had a dangerous one indoors.

eek, sounds dangerous. couldn't find an ian hislop bouncing on robert maxwell one and i looked at some of the private eye cartoons but i think they're all copyrighted. anyone feeble as this might be it does show what p.e. stands for.

So isn't it meant to be filled with discussions on sporty things like rounders then?

that wasn't the original intention but you have given me an idea for how to produce some incredibly boring discussions. another 28 on the way. actually i didn't end up calling it private eye because i though that might attract the konspiracy enthusiasts. might have been a mistake but it's done now. ooh and you've remembered to include a potato tag this time. good little ,

Ooh, I love a good conspiracy discussion unless I'm not expected to justify.
Don't forget to pre warn me on banned ones. PM on way. Potatoes on every tag I believe.

have you seen all the other root vegetables that i've put on your discussions yet? when i run out of root vegetables i'm turning to pulses. i wonder how many people do searches for 'lentil'?

As you plan to post 30 feeble discussions a day Judith you may find a repetitive tag on each one a very useful feature when you wish to turn these discussions into a short book. Sorry, a very short book. And leave your lentils out of mine you pulse trollie

red lentils, green lentils, chickpeas, haricot beans, mung beans, kidney beans, soya beans, butter beans, broad beans, baked beans, human beans. and many, many more. you're getting the lot thea.

Thea I really wish you would refrain from giving her these ideas! Please? She used to post good thought provoking discussions! I know she's in a rut but no one can help her but herself! LOL! Your humble friend and admirer, tdemex

have you seen my what's your favourite colour? what time do you get up? what kind of crisps do you prefer? how much water do you drink? and i can't be bothered writing so here's a link? discussions yet?(there's actually 25 versions of that last one)

td, I gave her the idea to compile her many and interesting discussions into a short book, thought it might keep her off the computer for a while.
Anyway have a heart, she'll soon grow out of this phase, think she's a bit fed up of being preached at over serious ones.

Judith, you should learn to write a short synopsis, I hate having to faff about with links which could be deadly boring when opened, or even worse for the telegraph.

the daily mail, not the telegraph i think you'll find. although i'm considering the star as well. the discussions i started yesterday were serious, albeit with silly titles. well apart from the one i stuck in here. the one about weather was actually about climate change. (which i bang on about enough to drive people to tears i'll admit)

You can keep the daily mail out of here thanks. I've even seen links to that from Americans who perhaps imagine its an actual newspaper. Of course they are all serious, I didn't get a comment from you on the climate change though and its doing some very odd things today. The climat

i know counting is difficult for all of us but i think there is a difference between nought and 5 (now 6) comments. i was interested to see what people from different parts of the world were experiencing, there's been changes all over. also if you disguise a discussion as being about weather you're probably guaranteed some responses (i always go for quantity rather than quality as you know)

By the way I was typing the climate has been very odd today above when it managed to submit itself too fast.

I shall try and locate your climate one now.

you should join my next new section - extremely easily confused. you've already been there. moby line one.

Moby, you've lost me. I don't want to be in a confused section, I've already made it clear I don't do technology

technology? oh that worked. ooh, i have 4 sections now: easily confused, extremely easily confused, lets get banned and the very glamorous p.e.

And those are your idea of a SATIRICAL section are they Judith???

I'm going to do an akuler now and try to drop through the rankings of p.e. as noticed I'm already in the top 3. Mind you you did only manage to sucker 3 people into it.

yes. very satirical indeed i think you'll find. maybe i should have called this the beano rather than private eye/p.e.

Well as long as no one else understands what the pathetic little p.e. was supposed to represent

it was meant to be pathetic. you really are a bit on the slow side.

Now now Judith, don't want to have to report you for being offensive. If it was meant to be pathetic why did you spend all night trying to get that uselss avatar on. Has the screen returned to normal on the other one yet or are we still getting the widescreen version?

i put effort into making things truly pathetic. a bit pathetic is just not good enough for me. anyway i was hiding from the potatoes.

Thanks for that other comment, I only just saw itAppreciated.

. no bother, i love interfering with other people's responses and discussions.

http://carcino.gen.nz/ima...

nice one

jb, did you see the shake and bake snake?

yep. and the collie hit by a trollie. now i know you were feeling peckish thea, but the neighbour's dog? well really.

I never mentioned yapping little Willie to you did I jb, I'd be more than happy to have him spit roasted for dinner, after I've given it a good kicking. It seems to think my ankles are for dinner. Ever been terrorised by a 6inch little willie resembling a poodle?

eek. i like dogs and as you know i like rats but i think they should never be crossed. especially when their owners never bother to train these ungodly creatures.

Night night jb, I'm off, got to get up soon for the school run

bye. i've got an early start too but i'm trying to put off washing up after the potatoes (was doing two tests, then faffing about, then another two etc and now there is a good deal of mess)

So do you get to eat the potatoes after experimenting on them - with a nice bit of roadkill on the side, just to keep on topic

yes. they get blended and mixed with hydrogen peroxide and later they make a delicious smoothie. i've got the next set of tests to do shortly - you'll be able to tell because i'll probably be posting on here at half hour intervals.

Remind me never to visit Judith, rats on the loose and potato smoothies. I have a good one you'll like, on my snail one there's a want to be squirrel boiler.

they're only on the loose when someone annoying visits. then they are trained to leap up and go for the throat. or just follow them around in the foolish hope of getting snacks. will go and have a look at your squirrel boiler, need some recipe ideas. ooh and it's raw potato too - even tastier if that is possible.

You are obviously an all round useless hostess Judith. You didn't even congratulate me on reaching the highly esteemed position of number 2 in this great and rather pathetic new interest of p.e.

i'm very proud of my pathetic effort. but well done for reaching number two, which means i'd better do some exhaustive trolling on you and see what happens.

Ah so you finally have the grace to acknowledge my great achievment here. I don't think you are even aware of the Panaithinaikos leader board at all, but don't worry I'm stopping at 2, unlike you who seems to be intent on creating many frivolous new interests.

i've noticed that you haven't added any of these new interests thea. apart from p.e. and marine life (which i didn't set up but there was nobody in there when i added it).

I'm bored and in a bad mood so will go and add them now, also need to check out your probably useless avatars.

they've all got the same one

well even pe isn't showing in your interests from your profile and certainly not any others so can't sign up. I'll sign up when you post a disc if it's facinatingly enticing.

[looks at own profile] second page of hobbies thea. marine life - pets for some reason. all the others in this one:

morally i think it's an excellent idea. i can more or less stay out of the 'would you eat it' debate because i don't usually eat meat anyway and don't think i would like it however it was obtained (i do eat meat when travelling sometimes and don't even like the taste). i think when i was a child i ate some of a pheasant that my parents had accidently knocked down. so you're planning to write a cookbook, with what sounds like sensible scraping advice? what animals have you got recipes for?

hiya Marti

I don't know how anyone can stand to do butchering, although I guess those of us who don't like the idea would soon learn if it was a matter of survival. Great if you have the freezer to store it in too.

Hi Alice. Believe me, if I hadn't been so angry at how much damage was done to my car by that deer, I doubt I could have handled it. I had never butchered anything in my life before and I don't think I could do it again. Anger makes us do some pretty strange things sometimes.

Now I have visions of you uttering words with every chop! ...
why...chop!...did...chop!..you..chop!...bust..chop!...up...my..chop!...car..chop!

Hehehehehe. I didn't know you were watching me!

Here's the roadkill.

it's huge. you must have got a fair few dinners off that one.

Yep, I had quite a few dinners from my roadkill. He was a big one, for sure... 6 points (6-pointed antlers). I also made some new friends once word got around that I had just "bagged" a deer. Funny how they all liked venison.

no, you just discovered how many friends you really had or something

well if it's fresh then there probably won't be too many little high protein additions in it. interesting cooking suggestions there, although if you do that you might as well just empty a few dozen ashtrays into a bowl.

Ack! I don't know which would taste worse...the butts or the fur. Either/or, I'll stick to the super markets lol.

do you honestly think you could get anything nicer than my suggestions in the supermarket?

is that a zoo or was he just after getting some really big kitties as pets? good idea of what to do with roadkill though - don't think zoos and safari parks here do that, they should although there's not all that many deer killed but i'm sure they have some animals that would like smaller things.

The guy that owns got his animals from a recuse. He's had them as long as I can remember and he does allow visitors and charges a small fee ($5.00 and our zoo is $10) to see the animals. It's quite the site to drive down the road and see a tiger and bear laying on the roof of the animal house sunbathing LOL

Here's a very good but very sad article on the man that runs "Tiger Ridge"

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090426/NEWS16/904260312/0/NEWS28

oh that is really sad about the horses. i suppose if they have to die that is the best thing to do with them after.

Yeah, it is but, I like how he trys to find homes for the horses that are in good shape.

decent guy. are there organisations apart from the humane society that are trying to get this sorted out?

Yeah there's a lot of horse recuses around here, I'm in the city but out of the city is all farmland so there's a lot of horse lovers.

hiya, don't know, i'd assume road cleaners of some kind get rid of them. or they're just left until they've been run over so many times they turn into a pancake. well if you drove you could probably get someone else to do the butchering as part of your skill swap thing.

Sad to think of the cats that get killed, some may be ferral but others are pets too. and I hope they don't get eaten!

we lost several cats to careless drivers when i was growing up.

sorry to tell you Alice but our roads are paved with dead cats.

not as sorry as I am to hear it thea

oh yes, up in the hills that'll be. . well that makes a lot of sense, i imagine moose and deer are pretty edible. have you ever eaten bear?

Hey X Hey J I've had bear! It's good if cooked right! I had a freind who got one and he gave a lot of the meat to friends as it was so big! I had some of it that my friend made and it was greasy and like shoe leather! Another friend had his gal make some ti was the same cut of musle, and she knew what she was doing, it melted in your mouth and was very tasty! Just thought I'd but in and give ya my 2 cents worth! T-----

hey, hey. doesn't it also depend on what the bear ate?

I love bear, got some my daughter's fiance brought home in the fridge now. The est way is to slow cook it small in stew. Tough I have had it pan fried and it came out pretty good. A lot depends when you get it and what it has been eating. If it's one that frequents towns and gets in to a lot of dumps, dumpersters, and other stuff, there not ral good. If it's spent more time in the wild, it's been eating berries and plants and other stuff, so it's pretty good.

i thought so but didn't know if it was true. there is a reason we don't eat cats and foxes very often - they don't taste nice. animals that eat plants seem better and as bears can eat anything i imagined that it varies.

well i won't be eating it but i suppose sometimes animals are killed without being squashed into a puddle of fur and organs...

a lamb who eats venison? you are a bit unusual. like your menu by the way.

Just satisfying my inner Lion don't ya know...

you growling again? been in politics recently?

Hey, I'm ranked #2 there now...somehow...

there's something very strange about the rankings in politics. users that go there infrequently are top of the list. people that live there bottom. i think you can confidently expect to go down several thousand places if you continue doing what you've been doing.

Yea..baby, you clean it, I'll cook it! Venison Chili, Venison roast, Venison tacos, Venison burgers, Venison chicken fried steak............

oh dear.

would you do it? assuming fresh.

Honestly it depends. Sometimes when an animal is hit and depending on where it is hit the bladder or the bowels rupture. If that happens then all the contents go into the meat. So, taking that into consideration - I would have to know if either of those two things happened before I'd want to process any of the meat.

Hitting deer happens a lot in my area. Beings that they are corn feed it is very easy to get over 100 lbs of meat of a decent size deer, but if the bladder or the bowels rupture - it's better off as buzzard food.

that would be pretty disgusting. not to mention a health risk. a lot of these unfortunate animals get killed but not made into a mess though so as you said the meat from them would be fine.

Yes they are. I love deer jerky and in stews.