Closest comparison I can think of is duck, minus the fat.
Also seagulls, what do they taste like?
Apparently seagulls taste awful, which is a shame
As most species of gull are protected, because of declining numbers due to overfishing, that’s no bad thing.
Inland gulls, on the other hand, considering what they’re happy to eat, and just how badly their excrement will eat into the paint on a car, unless it’s washed off immediately, I wouldn’t want have anything to do with! 🤢
Isn't it wood pigeon that you eat?
They're decent sized around my bit.
My mum was from Ness and would get the occasional Guga. Now that was a fishy tasting meat.
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/06/the-guga-hunters-of-ness/
Eating gulls makes me think of St Kilda.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/12/the-remarkable-story-of-st-kildas.html
Looks a bit rough to me.
Our cat loves pigeon and occasionally brings one in for us to try.
Which is surprising when one considers the size of the cat flap, a pigeon and his own relatively petite size compared to a pigeon.
I wonder if he’d like a Saturday job working at the allotments.
Wood pigeon and rabbit are nice eating. Been to St Kilda 3 times but never ate a gull.
eating seagulls
if you got the right seagull here in brighton it would taste of ice cram n chips i recon.
mostly they probably taste of bins - i cant think of a less appetizing animal.
Baby pigeons. Yes, those that are about to have dark colour feathers. Yummy in Chinese herbal stew. My grandma used to eat a lot of those and we get to eat them too as a kid.
However, the wood pigeons in the UK are just too beautiful to eat. I like looking at them.
Oh ya ... Pheasants that taste good too. I remember not long after arriving back to UK I went to the local market in the Toon where they once sold game meat (not anymore). Well, I saw them selling whole pheasants so I bought three of them whole ... unprepared full of feathers. Such beautiful birds so I just put them in a plastic bag to carry them around. LOL! Well I thought everyone would carry dead whole pheasants around. Some people looked at me LOL! Took it back to my flat and started plucking the feathers and gutted it. I cooked in 3 different ways. Boiled in soup, oven and stir fried .... apart from soup that tasted good, the other two methods of cooking were like chewing my boots. LOL! Taste good though.
They let you buy 3? They didn't sell them by the brace?
Yeah, most cooking methods need liquid or sealing the meat to stop it getting dry or tough. Stew is good.
They let you buy 3? They didn’t sell them by the brace?
Yes, I remember buying 3. Not in brace not sure why. I know they were cheap.
Oh ya ... I have never tasted pheasants in my life before, so I thought they must be "chicken" like but with game meat taste that's all. LOL!
Yeah, most cooking methods need liquid or sealing the meat to stop it getting dry or tough. Stew is good.
I was just cooking them oriental style like clear soup. Next time I will stew them if I can find them cheap.
I was once given a pigeon in france that still had its head and eyes.
That's to see you through the week!
I thank you. Try the pheasant, I'm here all week.
I was once given a pigeon in france that still had its head and eyes.
The far east style cooking in herbal soup, once done we just eat the entire head whole with the brain, eyes the lot coz the flavour of the herbal soup basically covered whatever the head tasted like.
Same goes with chicken head and as a kid we used to bite off the skull to eat the brain ... Yes, I know it's not how people eat here.
There is a cooking school in Leeds that focusses on all that kind of stuff. You can book in there to be a customer for the trainees. I think you'd love it. Some of it was too much for me though when I tried it. I am never going anywhere near "honeycomb pork" again... 🤣 [ it was something tripe like, not pork belly, to my surprise shock ]
