As appetizing as roadkill ordinarily is, I still don't think that I would eat it.
Ever. Surely the 5 second rule
will have long since ceased to apply to the "food" unless you were the one who hit it with your car, which is
not really the most humane way to procure food. There are some people who have a substantially different view, though,
and Arthur Boyt is one of them.
Mr. Boyt eats roadkill. Frequently. In fact, the only time he doesn't eat roadkill is on the occasions when he dines out. He started eating it 50 years ago, collecting it near his home in Cornwall, England, as a way to save money. Now 66 years old, he hopes to publish a roadkill cook book that contains all of his favorite recipes for meats such as badger, hedgehog, rabbit and rat. He has eaten hunting dogs (lurchers), cats, squirrels, foxes, mice, deer and pigeons. A Labrador he once found tasted "just like a nice piece of lamb," though he finds cats to be "a bit bland." His favorite food is a badger sandwich made primarily with head meat.
May is National BBQ Month and National Hamburger Month
Cupcakes, not for dessert (unless beef is your idea of a treat)
Because eating French Fries in the car is so tough
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3-05-2006 @ 2:49AM
Elise said...
Nicole, where do you find these stories?!
My brother once ran into a deer with his truck by accident - the deer bounded right in front of him, happens all the time. The dead deer went in the truck and my brother feasted on venison for a month. We taunted him for years with "my brother eats roadkill."
If this guy is a taxidermist one would hope that he knows what he is doing...
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3-05-2006 @ 9:26AM
Nicole Weston said...
Hi Elise. I would think that, as a taxadermist, he would have a pretty good system, though since he started by "collecting" dead birds in his teens, I have my doubts as to whether there isn't some sort of neurosis at play here.
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