Bunny Rabbit (best meat ever)  

I don't know why, but it's a meat eaten in winter, and very affordable. A large part of the rabbits sold in France are coming from China : it's strange that you can't buy some in your country.

Unlike Pigs and chickens, their poop is not stinky and their meat is guaranteed clean, compare to chickens that eats worms and Pigs that eats their own poop. Isn't it ironic our country is the like the only one that doesn't eat Rabbit while has a population of dog eaters.(I will never eat dogs because of their parasites)Unlike Pigs and chickens, Rabbit doesn't have plagues like swine flu and bird flue. No one will die of hunger if some families will actually raise them for meat since you can feed them with vegetable trimmings and leaves that you can find anywhere.

It has potential but its too late to introduce it to the market. Maybe it can be introduced to very poor families, since they have no excuse to be picky eaters.

but i think there's already some resto that have rabbits in their menu...but its specialty & kinda exotic...
and since they can eat grass or vegetables, they are surely more clean & healthy as compared to other animals.
hmmm, i hate those who eat dogs, not only because its not that safe to eat its also disgusting for them to eat a man's best friend...

They have a real plague Albert, it's called myxomatosis, and a rabbit with myxomatosis looks horrible ! However a man can't get it.
ckyera : I agree with you for the dogs !

Dogs have parasites and Rabies, I cant blame the Koreans,Chinese and the Igorots in our country because its a culture they grow up with. They need that meat to warm them from the cold climate since they live in cold locations. I also want ostrich meat to be introduced in our country but its super expensive.

Ostrich has no taste : it's not a good meat, you are loosing nothing here.

Anything can be tasty with cancerous MSG and some spices. what ostrich dish that you had?

yeah, but its already illegal to kill dogs and serve them as foods...
but i know in Baguio or somewhere there, its still on business...
oh well actually even here in our neighborhood, there's still some drunkards who kill dogs and make them as 'pulutan' i guess my dog before has been a victim...

ostrich meat? hmmm have you tasted its egg? hehe can you eat one alone?
true, msg can really adds flavors and gives the 'umami' taste! as they say...

ckyera : I never taste an egg : they keep them to produce new ostrich meat here I ate ostrich as roast meat and steak. It's a red meat, like beef, but without taste.

without taste? really? as in totally bland? huh! i expect it to taste like chicken or duck meat... hehe
well i just saw in one tv show here that they are challenged to eat one ostrich egg and whoever finish first & eat the most wins...hehe i saw the contestants almost blowing!

I heard the best bird meat was a pheasant. I haven't tried it though.

you are right, ckyera : let's say a taste of white meat like duck. But it's quite expensive and you expect something better for the price.
Have you tried quails, Albert ? It's better than a pheasant for me.

they were only raised for eggs in my country but I cant find its meat in the market.What a coincidence, I was about to make a thread about quails.

Nice discussion, Albert.

albert, is it okay in our country to kill quails or not? are they endangered here?

Hunting endemic wild quails in our country was illegal, the quail eggs we have here are from an exported breed I think. They were only raised for eggs here.

ah okay...thanks for that. huh! i'm so ignorant on these things...hehe all i know is eating kwek kwek!

anyway, you think the taste of a rabbit or just the meat is the same as those rats on the rice fields that are being eaten by some farmers from the provinces? just wondering...hehe

Rodent comparison: Rabbit-chicken but tastier, Rat-More of a duck kinda fishy and gamy, Guinea pigs-skin tasted like pork, meat tasted like chicken leg,Capybara-tasted like pork,Beaver-tasted like beef, Squirrel-Ironically the taste was nutty, Its like a meat soaked in nuts,Hare-tasted like chicken

hmmm...so you tasted them all already? wow!

I'm half Peruvian, Rabbit and Guinea Pigs were part of my culture. I never eaten a rat but thats how the rice farmers describe them.I never tasted Beaver, I just heard about its taste because of some hill billy redneck mylotters.

You skipped the disclaimer..

Anyway, the Peruvian in me actually eats Guinea Pig meat but I have a pet hamster and I wont eat it. I can have a pet bunny and love it as a pet but I will still eat Bunny meat since its not my pet anyway.

Since I had a pet rabbit, I never ate one. I am note you could do this.

I'm just embracing my Peruvian roots, The only part of the Peruvian cuisine that i will never eat is catmeat. Just like dogs they have parasites and they were said to be stringy.

I don't eat rabbits, but I ate a word
And next time, I will read the disclaimer : this discussion is more and more horrible

on the other hand, I know bunnies and hares(I dont think a hare is cute) were big in some French cuisine.

Hares are definitely not rabbits !
Hunters are keeping hares for them. I have not ate one since years, except in terrine.

They were cousins though and they can actually hybrid, So you had a hare before? hares were kinda large and they bite.I was kinda wondering if I can have a chicken as a pet and see how long it would live.

I did not think they can hybrid in nature : they are different, and have not the same habits. They are common in nature, but hunters like them, so if you are not a hunter, it's difficult to have one, except in some butchers' shops in fall, and they are expensive : around $25 for a kg.

so some hunters still sell them, i know usually hunters kept the hare meat by them selves or for their families.

You can find hares in shops only when hunt is opened, and if they are not rare in the country, they are rare and expensive in shops : only a few hunters sell them to shops.

What was it's season in France?

I had to look. Hares are hunted in september, october and november, and rabbits from september to january.

I wonder if tourust will be allowed to hunt if accompanied by a licensed hunter.

I'm not a hunter, but I know there are some closed private hunts where you can pay to hunt during a day or a week-end ; I'm not sure if you need a license to hunt there. I go one or two times a year to fish in a private lake : they rent you the material, and you pay to fish for a day, but you don't need a public license.

and we had a pet rabbit last year. i called him jabitsky.

Most rodent animals tasted like chicken, I consider dropping off chicken from my diket since the thing they eat have lots of chemicals.The concept of eating Rabbits yet still having one as a pet is like the concept of people poisoning rats despite of having one as a pet. I cant blame your brother if he will kill and eat those rabbits since they ruin his Garden. I have a pet Tilapia fish and I named him Decimal ,in my aquarium but I still buy Tilapia fish in the market.
As long as its not our pet that we are eating.

no, i don't think he harms the wild rabbits. i think he's just frustrated they they can still get through the fence. i would like to have a pet hamster someday. we already had dogs, cats, fish and birds as pets before.

There are 2 kilo's of bunny meat on my fridge, I'm gonna dump chicken for life, I want to eat something more organic and vegan animals have clean meat.

I had it as a stew with potatoes, carrots and tomato sauce and its very tasty. In some countries it was frilled whole just like a suckling pig. Its similar to chicken but I prefer it over chicken since chickens were kinda dirty, they eat everything just like pigs plus the chemicals mixed with their feeds to make them fat.

did you just read the disclaimer?

The pet variety were small, they dont have meat at all while the meat variety was actually big and its not cute, they were mean and they bite. so you wont feel sorry eating them.

Anyway I get the same reaction when I said I eat Cuyes. Which is the infamous Fluffies of G-force.

It tasted like chicken, only better, it has a lot of meat but its low in fat and high in protein.

I think Rabbit works more for stews and casseroles, They were not really for drying but I can let go of chicken for Rabbit. I didnt know they were expensive in US, I thought farmers just shoot them and eat them as revenge for ruining their garden.

The "pest" (wild) rabbits are ususally shot or poisoned and very few people eat them. They are usually tough and gamey and infected with various parasites.

There are some farmers in the US who raise them for fur and meat; but, not a lot because of squeamish people who associate rabbits with the "Easter Bunny" and Bugs Bunny. Very few grocery stores even carry rabbit meat and it is usually frozen and 1 rabbit costs as much as 3 - 4 chickens.

I had a friend who was trying to get into the business of raising them for their fur and keeping the meat for his own family. When it was time to do the first slaughter, he had too many to kill and dress by himself; so, my husband and I helped in return for some of the meat. Unfortunately, we now live several hundred miles from him.

In addition to stews and casseroles, rabbit is good marinated in teriyaki sauce and cooked on skewers and it is also good in stir fry. But, because there is no skin (like you find on a chicken) it doesn't fry well (it is too dry).

For fur production, I think its better to raise rabbit over minx since we can eat the meat unlike the other fur animals such as mix. I actually like gamey meat since Its a challenge to neutralized the gameyness.

My grandmother taught me to remove the "gameyness" by soaking the meat overnight in water with 1 c of white vinegar and a sliced onion.

That is what she used to do whan a neighbor gave them some venison. I don't know if it would work on other meats or not.

Lemon grass and citrus juice is also a good way to remove the gameyness but sometimes we need to let some gameness to stay since it might lose the flavor.I agree about onions, they really work in all cuisines around the world.

did you reed the disclaimers?