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[Manky Monkey]

They taste just like chicken -apparently.

[blair]

that what they say about humans . we have lost 3 workers over the years , it was just like they had gone kanoeing or something and have never been since . 

[Manky Monkey]

You've got canooing rats?

[blair]

you should see what the snails can do !!!  , all i can say is frik me that was quick ans stealthy .

[panthershaun]

taken the smite back as I like your sense of humour 

[klogan45]

Lucky git, you can eat rats and they do taste like chicken, but be warned, be VERY,VERY careful when you 'prep' them

[klogan45]

And Hedgehogs!!!! Yum Yum Yum!!! Really tasty

[blair]

these rats would feed a famill of six , its got something to do with the de icing fluid they use on the runway that behind the work shop . as for hedgehogs i dont know how you would prep one of them without getting a little prick !

[klogan45]

you don't have to have a little prick but some people that prep them do HAVE a little prick
You gut them and wrap them in clay ( heavy mud )and bake them on the embers of a fire, when cooked you break off the clay and the pricks and skin come off. No pricks there then.

[blair]

i am impressed by you knowledge of hedgehog cookery you should maybe write a book on it 

[tazet]

Ew that's grose. Glad I ate ages ago. Only just read this one.

[panthershaun]

used to work with a traveller type gentleman who used to eat various "woodland" meals like Rookes breast, Squirrel and hedge pig, in fact old spikey actually tasted rather nice he also brewed/distilled a rather potent moonshin a thimble full took my legs away for over 4 hours

[klogan45]

There's a lot to be said for 'woodland fare'. No additives, fresh,nutritious and best of all free
Squirrel is sold in some 'top class' restaurants as flightless partridge or tree rabbit, how pretentious!!!
What about Dorset Wall Fruit, or snails as us commoners call them, Yum Yum Yum But please remember if you're going to try them don't eat, kill or harm the 'Romans' as they are quite rare these days, that's the really big ones, they were imported by the, can you guess? Romans... as a delicacy and were abundant at one time, but now in decline.
What about edible dormice, upto £80 a pair in a restaurant , the last that I was aware, probably even more now Again an import, they're big ...for mice.
Lay off the monkies though
 

[Manky Monkey]

"Tree rabbit" -I like that 
Wouldn't get much more than a sandwich out of a doormouse would you?
Tazet's cooking lunch for a shooting party here on the estate at the moment. They've had 5 drives this morning & got another after lunch so should be a little less wildlife on the estate now. No idea what they're shooting but I'm guessing it's not tree rabbit or doormouse.

[klogan45]

You're right there Andy, not much food and paying high prices for it, its all a big con for those that have more money than sense and 'wannabee's'
the drive was probably some poor flying things that've been specially reared for the 'guns' not much of a life that eh, good eating though , Have been on a few 'shoots' meself but not a good shot, only got a few
I thought that the peasants were flying a bit low, then someone pointed out my error
would'nt like to eat a fox, smelly enough when they're alive!! We go to shaldon from time to time and collect mussels, cockles and clams, fresh and yummy!! The water there now is clean, since all of the work was completed a couple of years ago.
For any vegetarians what about seaweed, some of it is really delicious, but be careful that the water is clean, none of that blue/green algae not good for you that's not.
Fish too, mackerel, oily and free but getting less and less every year down here, still about but fewer around. Plenty of dogfish, thats lovely, no bones, but a bit ugly looking. Plenty of those around!!!