Why don't we eat rabbit and pigeon?!
50 years age people regulaly ate these animals!. but when i tell people that i eat them they give me funny look and ask how i can eat them!. also a lot of people have stopped eating tongue in the last 20 years!. why is this!? they are only meats like any otherWww@FoodAQ@Com
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Because many of the butchers shops that would openly display, them have gone out of business, for various reasons, advent of the supermarkets, and possibly EU regulations, but i would have to check that!. Many young people probably have no idea they were popular once upon a time!. Where we are there were two butcher shops displaying rabbit, beef , chicken, hares, but they both went due to high rent, and the supermarket that basically killed off all local shops!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
people do eat rabbit and pigeon, just go to a butcher!. you just cant get them at tesco so people dont get them regularly!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
because people have to much money these days!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Rabbit stew and pigeon pie!. What all this about not eating them!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I eat rabbit, not pigeon thoughWww@FoodAQ@Com
Some people still eat them like you do!. Rabbit fever may be a good reason to give up rabbit!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Paella made with rabbitt yummyWww@FoodAQ@Com
bird flu!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
Have you ever heard of rabbit stew and pigeon a la carte!. How about something exotic like some powdered buzzard dip along with some sauteed ground buzzard toes!. Of course these are mostly dishes you can only get in desert towns but If you happen to go to the desert you can set up some buzzard traps and just hope that they don't get you first!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have not eaten rabbit since that terrible disease over 50 years ago!.
Pigeons are rats on wings and I would eat them but not the ones I see in our cities!.
Tongue i just do not like but will eat it if I am a guest as with pigeon and rabbitWww@FoodAQ@Com
Pigeons are rats on wings and I would eat them but not the ones I see in our cities!.
Tongue i just do not like but will eat it if I am a guest as with pigeon and rabbitWww@FoodAQ@Com
I think its probably down to bones and supermarkets! Given the choice between an easy to cook cheap chicken breast or a really boney rabbit or pigeon most people (not being the Mrs Beatons of this world) will pick the easier option!. also there are far less of them around - the common pigeon is inedible, wood pigeons are far more scarce than they used to be and in our country side rabbits aren't particularly welcome and so are 'dealt with' by other means!. Perhaps we should start eating grey squirrels - there are millions of those!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think if food became scarce like it did in the last war then people would turn to eating these kind of game again!. I have regularly eaten rabbit, ( I live in the country), but I guess city folk have an all together different diet!. I have eaten both rabbit and pigeon and lots of other animals that roam about in the countryside!. I think these fancy chefs on TV programmes make different types of food popular again as well!. English people have become used to having lots of interesting food since more people have come from foreign countries to live here, and lots of people are willing to give those kinds of food a go!. I mean how popular has the curry become!. I have had delicious rabbit curry!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Because chicken and beef taste better!. I've tried rabbit and pigeon before but I'd rather stick to beef and chicken as they taste better and to me are more versatile when cooking!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Ive had both - maybe it is because I live in rural Norfolk!? Rabbit is nice - full of protein, pigeon - not so good - pheasant is also very nice, and venison, duck, goose, hare and partridge - most of those are very nice as well!.
as for tongue - but-i-ful as my good friend Bernard says :PWww@FoodAQ@Com
as for tongue - but-i-ful as my good friend Bernard says :PWww@FoodAQ@Com
They simply went out of fashion, Myxomatosis in rabbits and lead shot in pigeons had a lot to do with their decline, I still buy tongue, I find that offal in general is unpopular and always has beenWww@FoodAQ@Com
People do eat pigeon in fancy restaurants, only it is listed as "Squab"!. As for rabbit, some of the grocery stores here sell it in season, as well as frog's legs!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Hi, A lot of people still eat rabbit and pigeon, i must admit i have not eaten it for years, i remember many years ago a man who lived over the road from me used to have loads of rabbit's in his front bedroom, he used to eat them!. This was only discovered when he died!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I do i eat them when i go to the butchers but not many butchers will sell it, has our taste for other foods have taken over!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Hello11 JOHN O, the short answer to your Q is that today people are too affluent to bother!.
The longer answer is quite different!. During the depression in the 1920s, the people in the UK, were very poor 3 million unemployed, many under nourished and glad to eat anything that they could eat raw or cooked!. Rabbit , pigeon, were very popular, and some would breed them for the table!. Even hedgehogs would be eaten by the Romany travellers!.
Blackbirds were another possible source of food!.
In the 1930s Australia introduced a disease called (Maxamatosis); this spelling may be be wrong, which made the rabbits swell around the neck and it was awful!. They were overrun with rabbits and treated them as vermin, hence a malor cull!.
I lived through this era and know all of this to be true!.
We were lucky we used to breed Belgian Hares, very large rabbits, for the table for a family of 5!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
The longer answer is quite different!. During the depression in the 1920s, the people in the UK, were very poor 3 million unemployed, many under nourished and glad to eat anything that they could eat raw or cooked!. Rabbit , pigeon, were very popular, and some would breed them for the table!. Even hedgehogs would be eaten by the Romany travellers!.
Blackbirds were another possible source of food!.
In the 1930s Australia introduced a disease called (Maxamatosis); this spelling may be be wrong, which made the rabbits swell around the neck and it was awful!. They were overrun with rabbits and treated them as vermin, hence a malor cull!.
I lived through this era and know all of this to be true!.
We were lucky we used to breed Belgian Hares, very large rabbits, for the table for a family of 5!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I've eaten Pigeon before! It's nice!Www@FoodAQ@Com
People have forgotten that meats comes from animals- they think that it grows in stryafoam trays!
I breed and show rabbits, and rabbit is ALL white meat with less calories and fat than poultry!
I've never had pigeon, though!.
I think that eating tongue would be strange!. It just seems more like a by-product to me!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I breed and show rabbits, and rabbit is ALL white meat with less calories and fat than poultry!
I've never had pigeon, though!.
I think that eating tongue would be strange!. It just seems more like a by-product to me!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Errrmmmm - I still eat Rabbit - delicious in a pie or casserole!. My butcher also gets Kangaroo, Ostrich, Kudu!. Wildebeeste, Zebra, Camel, and Buffalo!. All very tasty, all very healthy, since there's little or no 'fat' on any of them - just solid meat!. Delicious!!!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think lack of availablility of these meats like rabbit, pigeon, quail, vension etc!. in super markets in cities, Cause for some people to wonder regarding edibiliry of these meats!
Just let them try these meats and they will find how exotic and tasty they are! one thing -they should know how to cook them!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Just let them try these meats and they will find how exotic and tasty they are! one thing -they should know how to cook them!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I eat rabbit and pigeon when I can get it!.
Rabbit went off our menus at a time when myxomatosis was introduced in an effort to control the spread of rabbits as they destroyed crops!. They were left deformed and I believe toxic so were not killed for food!. Apart that is from those that were bred for the purpose!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Rabbit went off our menus at a time when myxomatosis was introduced in an effort to control the spread of rabbits as they destroyed crops!. They were left deformed and I believe toxic so were not killed for food!. Apart that is from those that were bred for the purpose!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
They're just not as readily available, and certainly not as cheap!. I'd say that myxomatosis and rabbit calicivirus might have had some impact on the popularity of rabbit - while I don't think that humans can catch either of these, I'd say a tumour-ridden rabbit wouldn't be so popular with consumers!. Pigeons are also notorious carriers of salmonella, which does affect humans!.
My guess is that rabbits, at least, might become more popular over the next few years, as food prices go up!. Rabbits are relatively cheap to raise, and have become much more resistant to last century's viral strains!. also worth noting that while I haven't seen it readily available over here (Ireland) yet, I did see it a few times in Australian supermarkets!.
There is nothing more comforting than a rabbit stew on a cold winter night - if I could get rabbit more easily, I'd definitely cook it! It's also fairly lean healthy meat!. Pigeon is pretty fatty, but is delicious!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
My guess is that rabbits, at least, might become more popular over the next few years, as food prices go up!. Rabbits are relatively cheap to raise, and have become much more resistant to last century's viral strains!. also worth noting that while I haven't seen it readily available over here (Ireland) yet, I did see it a few times in Australian supermarkets!.
There is nothing more comforting than a rabbit stew on a cold winter night - if I could get rabbit more easily, I'd definitely cook it! It's also fairly lean healthy meat!. Pigeon is pretty fatty, but is delicious!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Here in France they have whole skinned rabbits at the meat counter - so disgusting!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Fatal Attraction put me off rabbit, I would never eat pigeon!.Www@FoodAQ@Com