# I'm looking for recipies for cooking Canadian Geese **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 17, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590 "2005-02-17T19:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/1 "2005-02-17T19:36:41Z")
I’m just looking for ways to save money, and they seem plentiful. I presume they taste like chicken (I mean, what doesn’t, right?). My concern is that they’ll be gamey and tough, so I guess I’ll expand my request to include marinades, as well. Also, if anyone could direct me to resources on cleaning Canada Geese, that too would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Winston ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/2 "2005-02-17T19:41:04Z")
It gets expensive once you figure in the cost of the hunting license. And the ammo. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/3 "2005-02-17T20:01:49Z")
> [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](#): > > It gets expensive once you figure in the cost of the hunting license. And the ammo. Hunting license? I don’t think I’d have to shoot them. When I was a kid, we kept chickens and turkeys, and I don’t remember ever shooting one of them. Anyways, I’ve got a licensed handgun with which I’m sure I could dispatch them handily (if it came to that). That sort of hinders my ability to bag them on the lawn outside my office, though. Or the golf course. Are you sure I’d need a hunting license? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/4 "2005-02-17T20:40:07Z")
Canadian Geese are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. That means you can’t kill them outside of a specific hunting season, and killing them by means other than gun or bow and arrow, even during the hunting season, may be illegal in your state. It’s also illegal in most places to discharge a firearm in an urban or suburban setting. Permits can be granted to control populations of Canada geese in urban and suburban settings where they are causing property damage, but non-lethal means are required to be tried first and the means by which you could kill a goose in that setting would still be limited. And they don’t taste like chicken. The farmed ones are better than the wild ones, imo. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/5 "2005-02-17T20:43:04Z")
Okay, one more time with feeling: They’re not _Canadian_ Geese, they’re _Canada_ Geese. Hosers. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/6 "2005-02-17T20:52:44Z")
Actually, I think the geese in my neighborhood _are_ Canadian. They’ve just arrived back from their trip up north, and their honking kinda sounded like ‘hoser, hoser, hoser’ as they passed overhead … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/7 "2005-02-17T21:02:21Z")
Here’s a good book my Aunt sent me, it has about 5 goose recipes and even covers field dressing and preparation. [Nebraskaland Magazine](http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/nebland/specials/cookbook.asp). BTW, as previously noted, it is illegal to kill Canada Geese out of season, doubly so without a hunting license. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/8 "2005-02-18T03:39:29Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Also, if anyone could direct me to resources on cleaning Canada Geese, that too would be helpful. One of the species is a Canada Goose, two or more are Canada Geese! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/9 "2005-02-18T03:46:21Z")
Actually, they’re called Noisy Annoying Shit-Machines That Never Go Away. Around here, anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-recipies-for-cooking-canadian-geese/290590/10 "2005-02-18T04:45:49Z")
My dad was an avid bird hunter at one time, and he would never take a Canada goose. He said they were inedible, and that is something coming from him, as he would eat rabbit and squirrel if he ran them over.