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Posted in Absolute Piffle, wild dogs | Tagged Kristoffer Clausen | 13 Comments

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1. on March 18, 2013 at 12:52 pm | Reply massugu

   Either awfully brave or awfully hungry–it’d be like eating a skunk!

   
   
   • on March 19, 2013 at 2:45 pm | Reply bearcoatpei

     All I keep thinking is why start your vulpine culinary adventure with boiling the bejeezus out of the head? Some people reckon skunk is delicious meat if you prepare it carefully, i.e. don’t discharge the scent glands when skinning and gutting it. I’ll be taking their word for it as they caught one in a trap on Dual Survival and let it go rather than eat it. If those two won’t eat it, it must be bad.

     
     
2. on March 18, 2013 at 3:18 pm | Reply tracey

   there was a programme here in uk a few years ago about a guy who lived down in the west country who ate fox regularly. he collects road kill to eat, and he will eat anything, fox,badger,squirrel,anything he can find that is a mammel and dead he even supposdly ate someones dead cat. his wife did not share his eating habits and as far as i recall made him have his own freezer for his carcasses. he was an old man i have no idea if he is still alive, he certainly seemed to enjoy eating them.

   
   
   • on March 18, 2013 at 3:57 pm | Reply bearcoatpei

     I remember that. I think this is the same person.
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series6/roadkill.shtml

     And another bloke who likes his roadkill.
     http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/26/i-eat-roadkill
     http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048527/Jonathan-McGowan-roadkill-Owl-curry-adder-stir-fried-craneflies.html
     Hang on, I thought it was rabbit not adder he ate first? Anyway, after the “secret thrill” and “to see their insides” sentences, I’m just relieved he only progressed to roadkill cuisine and not Jeffrey Dahmer’s footsteps.

     
     
     • on March 18, 2013 at 8:14 pm | Reply retrieverman

       I’ve seen this. It was filmed on Bodmin Moor. His wife didn’t want to appear on camera, and they were several other confirmed bachelors featured from the moor.

       In my part of the world, collecting and eating roadkill is a time honored tradition, and is even enshrined in law!

       In 15-20 years, I’m not so sure that won’t be me with those guys!

       
       
       • on March 19, 2013 at 6:52 am | Reply megrim43

         It`s not eating roadkill that`s horrific – it`s eating something as rank as fox!

         Elizabeth

         
         
         • on March 19, 2013 at 7:09 am | Reply retrieverman

           This guy is from West Virginia: http://www.amazon.com/Road-Kill-Cooking-Gourmet-Style/dp/1886950008

           
           
           • on March 19, 2013 at 8:09 am | Reply bearcoatpei

             This one’s a goodie too – made me chuckle from the parts I could read any way.

             

             Quick-Fix Cooking with Roadkill

             

             
             
3. on March 18, 2013 at 5:40 pm | Reply Judie Lewellen

   Gross!

   
   
4. on March 23, 2013 at 8:44 am | Reply chervilmeadow34

   There are so many pheasants road killed around here that it might seem a waste to collect and eat them, which we have sometimes done. However I now think it selfish to deprive especially the red kites from utilising them, especially since they don’t have as easy access to Tesco as we do.

   Paradoxically, nothing seems keen to eat the occasional badger, killed as they are only at the very edge of the road, presumably because if Mr badger makes it to to the middle the drivers will usually see him in time to stop or evade. Anyway, the bodies of those which do unfortunately get killed tend to stay at the edge often for weeks, just gently shrinking gradually away and saddening all the passing motorists since we all love badgers in this country – except maybe the dairy farmers.

   
   
   • on March 23, 2013 at 9:03 am | Reply retrieverman

     The film was called “The Man Who Eats Badgers,” and if you watch it, he keeps all kinds of dead things in his freezer.

     His wife won’t appear on camera.

     I wonder why.

     
     
   • on March 23, 2013 at 9:04 am | Reply retrieverman

     http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15061938RThZfXqp?h1=The+Man+Who+Eats+Badgers+%5BPart+1%5D

     
     
5. on March 23, 2013 at 8:48 am | Reply chervilmeadow

   I meant to say “a waste NOT to collect and eat them”

   
   

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