Kitchen Garden Forum

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.

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

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

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)."

Oh that is gross.

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!!

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

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

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