Rabbit as food.

It’s too bad, because if you think about it, chicken is one of the most fucked up things you can eat. As I once delightfully described to one of my friends - as he was eating chicken - chickens are basically descended from reptiles. When you’re eating chicken, you’re eating what amounts to reptile meat, except the reptile had feathers. Also, you’re more than likely eating the breasts. In other words, you’re eating lizard tits. Lizard tits!!!

So, Argent, have you heard back from KFC yet about that marketing job you applied for?

Maybe he’s been shadow-walking:

Now that there’s just plain old good eatin’!

I used to go rabbiting with my neighbours when I was a kid. They used nets and ferrets to catch and kill the tasty little bunnies. Years later when I used to go kangaroo culling we would shoot rabbits and roast them on an open fire rather than carry piles of meat to the middle of nowhere.

Most Aussie rabbits have some resistance to myxi and although it is safe to eat infected rabbits it is easy to pick those that are suspect and just shoot another.

My Dad used to hunt rabbits, and I used to go along with him when I was a kid. It’s very common in New Zealand, where they’re pests.

I can’t really remember what rabbit tasted like, it’s been so long, but I have a vague feeling of “gamey” whatever that actually means.

Next time I have chicken, I’m going to pretend that it’s a dinosaur I killed and ate. Yum, dinosaurs.

My only taste of lamb was mutton. My across-the-alley neighbor was a basque shepherd, and lamb went to the rich folk. Their family only ate the sheep that had gotten too old. They always cooked it in deep pit. Stank up the whole neighborhood. Even the family admitted that it was pretty rank. They ate it anyway. All of it.
I’ve had Peking Duck. In Hong Kong, even. That’s good stuff. But never just the meat. That’s for the help. :wink:

Where did you grow up?

I’d much rather eat lamb than cow or pig. Lamb is delishimo.

You can eat them? Hell, I’ve always just put rabbits in the “fun to shoot, like squirrels and crows” category. There’s no shortage of steak at the market so that I’ll start eating garden rat. They’re a pest and I don’t eat pests.

The only time I’ve cooked rabbit I used frozen. It was tasty, but the bone-to-meat ratio seemed rather high.

But if you really want your head to spin, checkthis link. Rabbit! It’s a meat! It’s a lab animal! And you can grow them for fun and profit!

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/othrwhtmeat/index.html

What’s wrong with reptile meat? Snake, alligator, turtle… it’s all delicious.

Yeah but this guy is not one of those people like you or I who have an adventurous attitude towards life and will eat any animal that walks. “Reptile tits! Reptile tits!” was enough to make him set down his fork and cringe.

I’ve only eaten it as a kid visiting the rural relatives. Even with absolute farmland only five minutes away, it’s not common round this town. On the farms I know, the rabbits are usually poisoned rather than shot. The toxic carcases then take out any stray dogs on the property as well. Bonus.

I remember it as gamey too, not as strong as venison though. Eel tasted more like chicken than rabbit did.

My sentiments exactly. That and they’ve got all sorts of diseases. We shoot 'em and use them as pet food.

There’s a butchers just off Camden Street were you can still buy a nice skinned and prepared rabbit. I like rabbit stew a lot.

Just to quote myself, here’s an Annual NZ Event.

I’ve had rabbit and I liked it. It’s not as good as dog, though :slight_smile:

But the question remains, why did some meats remain familiar (as lamb and duck have done in Britain) while others almost disappeared? Although sheep farming remains the solitary viable use of a lot of British land, the price of the end products can’t be the only factor, given how plentiful wild rabbits are here.

Also, if any Brits want to get a wild bunny delievered, I strongly recommend these guys.