I sounds like gull is right up there with vulture, recipe-wise.
One should not confuse “edible” with “commonly eaten” or “delicious.”
Have you looked into starlings? They have pretty much replaced pigeons as the “rats with wings” round here. They will actually perch on your trolley (cart) as you make your way through the supermarket car park.
Any proposal to kill, eat, or use starlings as fuel will meet with my full approval.
Salesman: (shouting) Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!
Man: Two Good Humors, please.
S: I haven’t got any Good Humors, I’ve just got this bloody albatross. (Shouts) Albatross!
M: What flavor is it?
S: It’s a bird mate, it’s a bloody bird, it’s not any bloody flavor. (Shouts) Albatross!
M: It’s got to be some flavor. I mean, everything’s got a flavor.
S: All right, it’s bloody albatross flavor, it’s bloody sea bloody bird bloody flavor.(Shouts) Albatross!
M: Do you get wafers with it?
S: Course you don’t get bloody wafers with it. It’s a bloody albatross isn’t it? (Shouts) Albatross!
M: I’ll have two, please.
S: I’ve only got one, you cocksucker. (Shouts) Albatross! Albatross! Albatross!
Believe it or not the starling population has halved over the last few years, and I don’t think it’s down to people eating them.:-
Starlings seem to have disappeared up here, certainly they are far fewer than of old. We’ve got tons of gulls that seem to be growing to a worrying size though.
Well, that is odd. If any ornithologists are reading this, I can tell you where the starlings have gone. They are all in the car park of Tescos on the A3 near New Malden.
If they were edible they would be on the list of endangered species.
Ok, but are Eds gullible?
Only the little ones.
I am calling edible “better than starving to death”. Poisonous stuff is out (unless you prefer death by poisoning over starvation, which is sensible but doesn’t make something edible). Pine trees are out as there is nothing of nutrition humans can derive from it.
Palatability is a different ball of wax, as the line between delicacy and disgusting changes with perspective.
I love pine nuts! (and I have never had that problem they describe)
Anyways, fine, substitute with any other plant we cannot assimilate, or with a pine tree that doesn’t have nuts at the time.
Pine needles are also edible - they contain lots of vitamin C apparently.
Ray Mears makes pine needle tea. But then I don’t think there’s anything he won’t eat, drink or wear as a hat.
“Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.”
– Euell Gibbons, Grape Nuts cereal commercial, 1974
Late to the thread, and I’m beaten by four minutes.
So anyway, are ed.s gullible?
:smack: And I looked, too!
Not all of them, some are in Tesco car park on the Altrincham Road leading to Timperley, Cheshire.
Kept there by the silly old bat who feeds them every day
Thelink goes to Muttonbirding - but does have this line’
I think we had the Gordon Ramsay thing here too, the gulls were an ‘acquired’ taste, weren’t they?
Other than that, all I can contribute is that the bloody starlings are doing fine here and scarfing down the unformed fruit on our feijoa tree so there’ll be none to give to my Dad for winemaking. Bastard starlings.