Foraging for Food

[Chantal]

I've just been listening to Fergus the Forager on the Jeremy Vine Show. Talk about taking things to extremes, I went right off my lunch, dead badger biscuits?

http://www.wildmanwildfood.com/index.html

I'm all for picking and eating mushrooms, herbs, berries etc, but not road kill and slugs.

[seedling]

At least with road kill you dont have to tenderise it - its already flat
Seedling

[Chantal]

But would you really want to eat fortnight dead intestines? I nearly lost my lunch!

[Geoff]

Extract from email from cousin's husband visiting Taiwan -
"Yesterday I snacked some pig's ear (just like bacon)
Today I had a hot pot, with jellied duck's blood and select rectums....(no kidding)."

[Chantal]

Oh that is gross.

[heyjude]

We went to Taiwan on a working trip in 1990 something and were asked if there was anything we didn't eat. Having read the guide book on the plane, I said I didn't eat snake (which I don't wish to see either dead or alive) or dog. They looked at me as though I was very stupid and then explained that it was the wrong time of year for dog which is very heating and only eaten in the winter.

But I did eat everything else and generally it was fine. Things like chicken feet (which I did eat) and your cousin's pig's ear and assorted insides are things you learn to cook when there is very little meat about. A generation on (as China gets richer and consumes a more western diet) they will be approaching extinction like pig's trotters, cow heel, chitterlings etc etc in the UK and meat prices all over the world will probably rise.

PS I did think that sea cucumber was best left in the sea!!

[Mike Vogel]

Where did I hear that if Adam and Eve had been Chinese we would still be in the Garden of Eden? They'd have eaten the snake instead of the apple.

mike

[Tigger]

Chris Evans has had some interesting interviews with Fergus which may change your mind......

[Shallot Man]

Geoff, I am puzzled, "selected rectum's," I wonder what the criteria is. shallotman