However, you do have to drink a lot, live on the dole, and beat your wife.
It suprises me that someone who knows enough not to call them Canadian geese doesn’t know there IS a season. They are rather tough and strong flavored IMO. The first couple of recipes weren’t so hot, but I found they make pretty good tacos if you pressure cook the meat for 15 minutes or so.
They should’ve tried Bolivian tree lizards.
Excuse me, Andy may have been a lazy drunken sod but he never hit Florrie.
He probably would have done but he was never sober enough
I’m going to try feral pigeon sometime soon, I think. They can’t be that bad - sure, there are some really scabby diseased looking specimens, but there are also plenty of plump, glossy, healthy-looking young ones too.
I’ve heard they’re a bit greasy.
He did hit her quite a bit, IIRC, but only in self-defense. And he wasn’t too bad at defending himself, considering how drunk he was.
Pigeons? Seagulls? Bah…bunch of lightweight amateurs.
Come to Brisbane and experience the sheer terror that is a flock of Ibis eyeing off your lunch. (Or maybe you? never was sure which). They are big damn birds with these massive long beaks and can be very aggressive. This is the Brisbane City Council page about them.
At one stage the local council actually employed two falconers, to just have their birds (IIRC they were peregine falcons) fly around the city centre to try and frighten the ibis away.
I most strongly suggest you DON’T try eating feral/streetpecker pigeons.
Tell your butcher you intend to do this and watch him turn pale
For which reason - because they’re likely to be unpleasantly-infected with something, or because there’s an inherent problem with eating rock pigeon and its descendants?
It can’t be that bad - I imagine your chief concern would be contamination from environmental pollutants? Cities are dirty places, for sure, but some are worse than others - there is a substantial population of very healthy looking pigeons in the park at Bournemouth, for example - and I reckon these won’t be significantly worse than a wood pigeon.
Sure, but if I told my fishmonger I was going off to the seaside to catch crabs, wouldn’t I get a similar reaction?
Actually, probably my biggest reservation about the idea is the possibility of bringing bird diseases into the house and infecting my budgie.
I always liked pigeons, they look kind of helpless (that whole head bobbing thing is cute yet odd).
Sparrows can be bloody annoying. Last sunday I had lunch at a garden centre and a sprarrow actually attempted to land on my sandwich when it was on it’s way to my mouth!
Canadian geese I know nothing about about but your run of the mill white geese are the devil dressed in feathers! Aggressive, evil things.
Magpies! Bullies dressed in feathers!
But the MOST annoying bird hands down are seagulls…the screeching, the bullying of other birds, the swooping and landing on any item of food, the evil red eyes! HORRID creatures!
They may be annoying (all right, they are annoying) but, apart from the big black-backed or Dominican seagull, they’re protected here. Always strikes me as most odd – there’s thousands of the beggers. But officially, they’re native.
Getting partly menaced by a black-backed gull while I was eating lunch in my home 'burb the other day was interesting. One lone determined bird, and I just kept telling it to sod off from its perch atop the rubbish bin. Those things are huge.
My reservation would be with their diet. I don’t mind corn-fed chicken, but puke-fed pigeon doesn’t appeal so much.
That’s a fairly good point, and I agree, it’s not a nice idea, however, it is worth noting that whatever you feed an animal on, it turns into puke in that animal’s stomach, before becoming part of the animal’s flesh.
Problems with pigeons…?
Sounds like a job for Mrs Dallinger!
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Well, you see, that’s the problem. It’s not working because it’s not p-o-i-s-o-n.
I hope that you aren’t fond of lobster or crab. There’s a reason, after all, that “bottom feeder” is such a gross insult.
Sorry, I really see the point of worrying about the quality of the feed an animal has gotten based on some grossness factor. There can be real concerns about diet affecting the meat, from how fish-fed pork can taste, to parasitology. And some variation of that factor may well be worth concern with regards to pigeons. But I do not understand the “icky feed” factor.
going off to the seaside to catch crabs {quote Mangetout}
No need to go that far, there must be some local comely wench who’ll oblige you
According to the news stories i’ve seen lately, the poor crabs have nowhere to live because they can’t compete with the herpes!