Why is it sociably unacceptable to eat road kill?

Deluxe1 · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:17

Just passed 3 dead pheasants,they taste good?

Abraham · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:40

Not much wrong with it you do need to be careful the meat hasn't been spoiled though, either by excessive damage or being there too long

Salsa · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:55

If you collect enough roadkill you could open your own Michelin Restaurnt!

I will get my coat

jakejacob0 · 3 Mar 2011 at 09:56

haha the subject made me laugh

Redz · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:39

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Craig1981 · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:41

Is it still ok to eat roadkill if you run down a person? o.0

Guest2 · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:46

Its not, if someone else runs over say a phesant, you are allowed to go and pick it up take it home and eat it. My dad has done this a couple of times I think.

What is not allowed is for you to run over the phesant then go and pick it up, take home and eat.

Seems a bit stupid really because you could just get a mate to drive in front of you looking for animals then you go and collect them

The Dread Pirate · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:46

Ricochet J said:
However, suppose someone was to run over and kill a rabbit. Why is it then unacceptable to pick up the rabbit, take it home and eat it? It's my understanding you can buy rabbit meat openly.

It's only unnacceptable if the one who ran it over takes it the next person to come along can take it with no issues.

DJMK4 · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:54

I seen a dead cat on the way to work this morning by the road

The Dread Pirate · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:56

DJMK4 said:
I seen a dead cat on the way to work this morning by the road

To some thats not a dead cat... it's dinner!

DJMK4 · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:58

Capn' $qu!ff said:
To some thats not a dead cat... it's dinner!

I would have, but I had no idea how long it had been there, isnt there some rule? (like they have that 5 second rule when you drop food on a dirty floor)

If its been there a few hours, its probably not safe to eat.

Redz · 3 Mar 2011 at 11:01

ringo747 said:
Anyone want some puppy dog to eat?

I'm sure we can come up with some recipes.

German Shepherd Pie sounds good or maybe some poodles with noodles.

The Dread Pirate · 3 Mar 2011 at 11:04

DJMK4 said:
I would have, but I had no idea how long it had been there, isnt there some rule? (like they have that 5 second rule when you drop food on a dirty floor)

If its been there a few hours, its probably not safe to eat.

I think if it's been there more than 2 hours it's likly to have started decaying and so it would not be safe to eat.

apeZ · 3 Mar 2011 at 12:29

Won't it spoil after a few minutes?

~>Dg<~ · 3 Mar 2011 at 12:39

GreatAuk said:
I think I heard that the eyes are a good indicator of time since death - if they're covered in flies or rotting away then it's too old, but if the eyes look in reasonably good condition then it is probably fresh enough to eat (after cooking thoroughly obviously).

I suppose large stuff like badgers could be a real pain to prepare - it's take ages skinning and gutting them if you weren't used to it, and it might be too big to fit in the freezer if you can't eat it all, so you'd have to hack it into little bits and get all the bones out and stuff. Preparing an animal from recently live state takes a while. (on my 'expedition' to Bolivia 2 guys bought a chicken and killed it, it must have taken about 2 hours just to get it ready for cooking, but then again we only had penknives, and guesswork to help us).

preparing badger

lol

ive eaten phesant thats bit killed by car

Rameses · 3 Mar 2011 at 12:39

How do people come up with these sort of 'questions' for GD, some serious crackheads with too much time on their hand in GD.

It's scary.

Pate · 3 Mar 2011 at 13:04

GreatAuk said:
I think I heard that the eyes are a good indicator of time since death - if they're covered in flies or rotting away then it's too old, but if the eyes look in reasonably good condition then it is probably fresh enough to eat (after cooking thoroughly obviously).

I suppose large stuff like badgers could be a real pain to prepare - it's take ages skinning and gutting them if you weren't used to it, and it might be too big to fit in the freezer if you can't eat it all, so you'd have to hack it into little bits and get all the bones out and stuff. Preparing an animal from recently live state takes a while. (on my 'expedition' to Bolivia 2 guys bought a chicken and killed it, it must have taken about 2 hours just to get it ready for cooking, but then again we only had penknives, and guesswork to help us).

Who the **** would want to eat a badger? The carry loads of diseases including TB and I can't imagine they would be very tasty. :/

Kutter · 3 Mar 2011 at 13:17

Round this way its deers, moose and bears. Although im sure the car would be a right off after hitting any of those.

Westyfield2 · 3 Mar 2011 at 13:52

Someone I know found an already-dead pheasant in the road, so stopped the car and took it home to eat it.

Eating road kill is bad enough in my book, let alone someone elses!

Redmint · 3 Mar 2011 at 15:40

doofski said:
Round this way its deers, moose and bears. Although im sure the car would be a right off after hitting any of those.

Lol, would be quite impressive to survive hitting a bear and manage to get it back home...