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Monika wrote:I am not sure I could eat an animal I have looked after! We kept rabbits during the war to supplement our meagre rations and I could never eat them when they were killed. In fact, it still turns my stomach to smell cooked rabbits now, more than 60 years on!

Funny that I never feel like that about the poor little carrots, sprouts, parsnips ... ... ... ...

I'd have the same problem Monika - I'd just see it looking at me!

We have a standing order with our Butcher for two rabbits every month and when I pick them up I get funny looks from other customers.And when I collect my veal escalopes that can be a different story,even been followed out of shop and asked very aggressively 'how could I eat baby cows?'The answer is 'very easily,with a caper sauce!'
Neither rabbit or veal is on display probably because of bad reactions,not P.C. people are too easily upset these days something to do with the sensation seeking wind-up merchants on the television telling us what we should and shouldn't be eating,I suspect.

It wasn't their "cuddliness" which put me off eating our rabbits, snooky, but the fact that I had cleaned their hutches, seen their babies born, picked juicy dandelion leaves for them and now I was expected to eat them - almost like eating your own relatives!

I am not at all fussy about eating tasty lamb whose live specimen are gambolling all around us every spring.

By the way, my husband loves rabbit but he does understand my reluctance to cook it and restricts it to eating out, when he can get it.

Hi Snooky,
Butchers hereabouts display Veal, Rabbits and one takes orders for squirrels.
With regards Veal the people know very well that Veal Crates are illegal and that Veal is now classified as Pink Veal. So where is their problem?
With regards Rabbits these are shot and is it better to simply discard them or eat them? Without Rabbits on the menu during WW2 we would have starved.
JB.

I'm like Monika - it would be MY animals I would have aproblem with - it would be like eating my dog!

glallotments wrote:I'm like Monika - it would be MY animals I would have aproblem with - it would be like eating my dog!

I bet my cockerel tasted better than dog

Now why have i got this funny feeling that i have missed something, or is it that i have gained something.

Morning OH

Well, I've done mine

Morning Alan, i'm unable to get the image to come up on the screen, i hate to think i'm missing something.

sorted

That's my mate, Big Ben.

OH,
Hope you have remembered to wind the clock tower up, as well as change the hour,

Dear Donedigging, Mr Reliable, that's me.

It was dark and spooky up the tower this morning.

Dear OH,

A small tip for the winter months ahead,

Leave a torch at the bottom of the ladder

Dear Donedigging, won't it still be dark up the tower, if i leave the torch at the bottom of the ladder.