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Started by Dr. Whom, January 31, 2006, 08:36:05 AM

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Dr. Whom

This is from The Guardian, so it should be reliable

For most, a squashed hedgehog or flattened badger lying on the side of the road is a tragic sight - for Arthur Boyt it is an opportunity for a free, tasty and nutritious meal. Mr Boyt has spent the last 50 years scraping carcasses from the side of the road and chucking them, together with a few herbs and spices, into his cooking pot.
The retired civil servant has sampled the delights of weasel, rat and cat. His most unusual meal was a greater horseshoe bat, which he reckons is not dissimilar in taste to grey squirrel, if the comparison helps. Fox tends to repeat on him. He has tucked into labrador, nibbled at otter and could not resist trying porcupine when he came across a spiky corpse while on holiday in Canada.


"Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor."

Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

Flangepart

Pardom me while i ( A ) Upchuck...and ( B ), recomend he get a job with the Food Network for the Holloween special.
"Aggressivlly eccentric, and proud of it!"

BoyScoutKevin

He's British, what do you expect. Their centuries of atrocious cooking has killed their sense of taste.