I wonder how many of us would eat road killed meat, it is often killed quickly and is free from the usual trips to slaughter houses that animals bred for meat have to endure.
This chap loves road kills so much that he has been eating it for 30 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4660060.stm

Well, would you fancy a bit of Badger, or maybe a steak off a nice freshly killed fox, or maybe an otter stew?

I suppose at least the meat comes ready tenderised seeing as it's been flattened :hihi:

I don't see a problem. I've eaten badger and hedgehog before although I didn't find or cook it myself. It was perfectly good meat.

I like Chinese and kebab so yep, seeing that I have prob eaten it already.:huh: :hihi: :hihi:

Have done so on a number of occassions - I've had Pheasant, Rabbit and Partridge. Obvoisly one's that have had a glancing blow and not an all out two wheels at 45mph treatment.

Mmmmm, meat.

He is absolutely right and people in the US have been doing this for many years.

If you have been in a foreign jail for too long, you also eat insects, if you are lucky enough!

I have a friend in the USA who is proud of how many different species she has eaten because of road kills, however, her daughter is mortified every time she mentions it. :)

Suprisingly or unsuprisingly his wife is vegetarian :hihi:

Having eaten in some weird places I, like Bikertec, feel that it's altogether possible I have inadvertently indulged.

It just doesn't feel right; it's like horse or dog - not something I'd want to eat. I know that I'm hypocritical, but it's literally a 'gut' thing.

Joe

Having eaten in some weird places I, like Bikertec, feel that it's altogether possible I have inadvertently indulged.

It just doesn't feel right; it's like horse or dog - not something I'd want to eat. I know that I'm hypocritical, but it's literally a 'gut' thing.

Joe

Horse isn't bad Joe, but I haven't to my knowledge eaten any dog. To save the bad lads getting one in.......I have been out with one or two though :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Have done so on a number of occassions - I've had Pheasant, Rabbit and Partridge. Obvoisly one's that have had a glancing blow and not an all out two wheels at 45mph treatment.

Mmmmm, meat.

Did they contain gravel????

I couldn't do it,don't like meat in a tin so couldn't eat it off the floor,:loopy: It feels wrong!

Joes right here.
Most Brits would cringe at the thought of eating something they've seen on a wildlife program.
Besides, most people are too unadventurous to step outside of the cosy realm of beef, lamb, pork or chicken/turkey.

An additional aspect is that the item of roadkill could have some sort of parasitic, bacterial or other infection. It might have recently noshed on something that had a similar infection, or may even had been in the process of dieing of an unknown illness, or after eating something poisonous (poisonous bait put out for the animals that are often roadkill?)

Yes, there are the arguments that the meat some of us eat may be chock full of antibiotics, steroids or some other deliberately injected or ingested chemical, but you can (usually) assume that you won't end up eating something that might have been riddled with disease.

I couldn't do it for a variety of reasons. But if you do decide to indulge at the Road Kill Grill, be sure and skip the brains.

Just look at this:
Now, some people might want to think twice about eating squirrel brains, a backwoods Southern delicacy.

Two Kentucky doctors last month reported a possible link between eating squirrel brains and the rare and deadly human variety of mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, thought to strike one person in 1 million, produces holes in the brain. Symptoms include loss of muscle control and dementia. It may take years, even decades, for symptoms to appear.

Dr. Eric Weisman, a behavioral neurologist who practices in rural western Kentucky, reported in the distinguished British medical journal The Lancet that he has treated 11 people for Creutzfeldt-Jakob in four years, and all had eaten squirrel brains at some time. Six of the victims, ranging in age from 56 to 78, have died.

My parents would pick up a pheasant if they knocked it with the car. I always slow down for them though!

Sorry couldn't eat it.

Yes I would if it was fresh kill - ie/ we'd just done it or seen it done.

Not if I just happened upon it as the flies will have had time to lay eggs etc :gag:

No preferance but I am partial to a bit of beaver

Absolutely out of the question.

No preferance but I am partial to a bit of beaver

Now why am I not surprised:hihi:

Thats horrible,

hedgehog casserole :gag:

Did they contain gravel????

I couldn't do it,don't like meat in a tin so couldn't eat it off the floor,:loopy: It feels wrong!

Nah, no gravel - Only a glancing blow from my car but sufficient to make the wee beasties shuffle off this mortal coil. Tasty tasty meat :D

If you hit a deer you'll be the one to get killed,just perfect for coming through the wind shield.With 200pds of meat hitting you in the face i hope you like your steak rare.

To my knowledge I've never eaten roadkill in this country but when in Zimbabwe a couple that we were travelling with were unucky enough to have a kudu run out in front of their Range Rover. Kudus are large deer, similar in size to small horses, with long legs that mean that even in a Range Rover they come up the bonnet and in through the windscreen when hit at speed.

The Range Rover crashed and was totalled, and we used the kudu as currency to get locals to help recover it on to the road and give us somewhere to wait until the hire car company got more transport to us some 18 hours later.

The local village people butchered and cooked the kudu, and it was really actually rather yummy, but I accept that this wasn't what most people would refer to as 'roadkill'.

As a child I had lots of very good meals that were made from "road kill"

was out in Hope Valley last week and my mate stopped the car to pick up a pheasent for dinner - it was in the middle of the road, not squashed yet and still warm (but definitely dead!). Is there some old law which says you can't pick up a pheasent you kill yourself, but the car behind you can??

I'm up for eating a bit of roadkill - probably better meat than some of the crap that poses as it in shops.