# Why do people hate on Canada geese? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 2, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-on-canada-geese/982008 "2023-04-02T01:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-on-canada-geese/982008/14 "2023-04-02T02:04:08Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Domestic geese taste terrific. I’m told they need to be slaughtered young, though. I used to cook at a restaurant that specialized in game fowl, so we had a wide selection of different poultry and (when in season) wild game to compare. The domestic goose was always at the bottom of almost everyone’s scale. I’d rather eat a grackle than a goose. They make great eggs, though. > [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Is it mainly about them shitting on cars? I can certainly understand that problem. They shit on every damn thing, even somehow on the undersides of benches and in a neat pattern on a grassy slope that causes you to slide right down into the pond that has been so thoroughly polluted by goose droppings that everything except the frogs have given up and died. They are so…fucking…awful! I hate them more than pigeons, and [I hate pigeons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-break-their-bloody-necks-in-which-i-pit-the-pigeons-cooing-outside-my-window/287473/) almost as much as [I hate The United Way](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-united-way/373612/45). Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-hate-on-canada-geese/982008)._