Please forgive the hijack. I swear to you, the first time I read your post, I read “freebie pheasant” as “frisbee pheasant”. The visual made me think that there has to be an easier way to tenderize game fowl…
Dude, you eat roadkill?
Granted, when we have roadkill items about, it’s generally an armadillo, which I don’t think anyone eats anyway. (mmm, leprosy) Or a deer that has badly messed up one’s car. I remember we were having some do at my cousins’ church when one of said cousins burst in to tell us that she’d hit a deer with her Camaro. If I remember rightly, there was an argument about whether said deer was edible.
You might be a redneck if…you hunt deer with a Camaro. OK, so she didn’t hit it on purpose, but I have cousins who would have.
LOUNE, does the female birth-giver eat such things herself or are they just for you? Mine will keep such things around forever, and I’m the one who has to throw them out. Yet she won’t eat a leftover from the previous day. Of course, she also only eats cow, chicken, and pig, once threw up when she discovered she’d had venison instead of beef, and moos at you if you eat your steak any rarer than well-done.
The rule in the UK is that you cannot collect a bird that you hit - to dissuade the aforementioned vehicular hunting. If you are the next car along - the bird is yours.
Of course - if there is no-one else on the road…
I’ve had a few close shaves, but my brakes are too good, and I am not a huge fan of pheasant, anyhow (and grouse are too hard to pick out of the grill).
Si
Huh. I admit I haven’t researched the rules here, but I also live in the redneck boonies of Louisiana, and I wouldn’t be surprised if what people do here is not what they are supposed to do. As far as I know, though, we only have deer. And rabbits. We are feeding my aunt’s cat this week while she’s on vacation, and there was a lovely fat bunny out in the backyard a couple of days ago. And no way to get the thing unless one was inclined to try to hit it with the riding mower.
How would we be able to tell? HAW HAW I slay me.
Anyhoo, I gave my co-worker a recently outdated container of pineapple and I wasn’t trying to kill him. Much.
I’ve had one or two, literally. Like I say, I need to be satisfied that it’s in tip-top condition before I’ll take it home - something that’s been hit but not squashed or anything like that, and obviously a recent casualty. Only pheasants. We have lots of them near where I live and they have sod-all road sense. There are deer as well but I wouldn’t know how to butcher them.
As stated, in the UK you can’t take anything you’ve hit yourself. I wouldn’t go looking for it anyway - it’s hard to do less damage to your car than the value of a fresh pheasant. 
As I say, I’ve been given a few that friends or neighbours have shot, and while I’m not too squeamish to clean them myself, I don’t enjoy the task so much that I want to do it all that often. So these days I’m happy to wait for the next offer rather than pick up roadkill.
Anecdote: A Washington-based biological survey trapped, tagged and released a number of crows. The tag read WASH. BIOL. SURV. and bore a box number. Some time later the survey team received the following letter:
Phuh. I read it as “freebie peasant”. 
And OneCentStamp beat me to my line. :mad: