Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
I did once pick up a pheasant, but I was driving. I had to whizz to the local town to pick up something, and on the way back 15 mins later there it was. It had obviously run into someone's wheel as there wasn't a mark on it. Luckily my Mum in law lives locally and knew exactly how to prepare it - these days I have a book and there's the internet (this was in about 1988!). I would do it again, it was delicious!Well you have plenty of opportunity to notice it on a bike. Wrong time of year, but the commute takes in plenty of blackberries, elderberries, wild hops, some sloes, and....roadkill. There's generally a dead pheasant on the road every couple of months. I've never collected them, but I've been close. You know they're fresh if you do the route twice aday, tho I guess someone who know's their stuff would be able to tell. A fresh badger appeared this week!
The blackberries, the couple of times I bothered to stop last September, I was picking a 1-2 kg per hour. Hardly made a dent in what was out there. Inexustable suppy, at least for my uses.
I dunno if you could eat well from foraging, but it can't be any worse than a couple people I've seen on tour - just chomping bowls of cheap museli to keep going and no eating out or cooking. It sounds like a step up from that. Then again, some people have zero interest in food.
I have a recipe for badger ham but it's now illegal to possess any part of a badger (I think there's some exemption for bristles...?) so I'm not trying it. It's in a brilliant old book of around 1940 about game, includes recipes for heron, squirrel, moorhen and various small birds.