Heym SR20
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What is it about venison?
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You should have used more Woke buzz words describe it as Free Range, Organic, locally sourced, no air miles and half the fat of Beef, sadly they would still ask if it tastes like chicken, some you just have to give up onMy wife invited her quite extensive family round for lunch yesterday, (18 turned up, thank goodness it's stopped raining), I defrosted more than enough venison sausages for everyone, but only cooked a dozen on the bbq initially.
The siblings enjoyed them, mostly they have been subjected to them before, but their children and some wives wouldn't look at them! Despite others saying how delicious they were! I forced myself to eat two, but the most popular meat was supermarket chicken bleddy drumsticks!
No wonder that dealers have stockpiles of venison. It seems that bland is beautiful with most people.
Ade8mm
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I love Biltong too and make it so good the South African crowd ask me to make it for them (high praise indeed).
However we nearly lost one of them recently to Brucellosis. He had just got back from RSA and reckons he picked it up there from Biltong.
He was in a very bad way, hospitalised for 10 days. I visited him every day and at one point he said he was in so much pain the previous night that he just wanted to die.
He also asked me to contact a lawyer for him so he could get his Will drawn up.
So that gives a fair indication of what a nasty infection it is.
Be very careful where you source your Biltong (or any other uncooked meat)
Ade
I ask my boys when they were wee whether they fancied venison mince in their Bolognese next time. Cue usual vomiting/strangling noises, quickly silenced when I told them that was a shame because they had been eating it for the last three months. Hahaha, they need to take some ****, toughens them up
Brilliant
I took about 4 lb of bambi burgers and similar bambi sausages to a group BBQ
I also took a load of jointed rabbits,
the "normal" burgers etc were left as the meaty ones were devoured,
one lad asked if I had any more of the chicken?
there was no chicken, and if he had noticed the "chicken" had four legs, he claimed not to like game meat,
I also took a load of jointed rabbits,
the "normal" burgers etc were left as the meaty ones were devoured,
one lad asked if I had any more of the chicken?
there was no chicken, and if he had noticed the "chicken" had four legs, he claimed not to like game meat,
DevonRifle
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My daughter wanted venison at her wedding. They did pork rolls and venison rolls for the evening. The caterer told everyone it was venison but some just don’t listen. After one chap had the venison and told everyone the beef was the best he’d tasted a queue formed for the beef rolls. About 75% still took them when told what they were. Most of the others tried a mates and came back for one later. They all laughed at the first bloke who said “but I don’t eat venison!” when he found out. There were a lot of converts that night.
Well done! My daughter just got married, wish we'd thought of it!
johndeere
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can't edit it now just to be clear i don't mind squirrel myself, i mind giving it to one of my son's partners who was keen to try the new meat till I told her what it was didn't end well even though she said it was tasty
south-nofolk-stalker
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Venison is a funny thing, we like it, my neighbours like it, I give most away to the lady in the local coffee shop who feeds my caffeine addiction, but my parents who are about to retire won’t touch it with a barge pole!
It will never be a staple unfortunately, or certainly in the 20 years I’ve been kicking about it hasn’t any way.
It will never be a staple unfortunately, or certainly in the 20 years I’ve been kicking about it hasn’t any way.
The problem with any game meat is 99% of the population aren't used to it. Where a nation that's been fed on pork, beef, lamb and chicken. And as much as you tart it up venison doesn't taste like beef and pheasant don't taste like chicken, similar yes but different. Most people's palette isn't used to it. I read something somewhere and it said if you try new things it takes, I think it said 7 times for your brain to get used to and accept these new flavours, most people are too set in the ways to try new things never mind trying them seven times, which is why children should be the ones to convert.
markyw
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I think it is simpler than a lot of us are making out. You are a product of your environment, to a degree, and being raised on "normal" meats can make relatively strong game flavours a little hard to handle in the first instance. That may be why many of the townies aren't as keen as country folk, due to lack of exposure to game meat when young.
Some kids try stuff, while some do not and this goes for run of the mill without even thinking about the off the beaten track (pardon the pun) foods. This can run into adulthood too, with people remaining unadventurous in their food choices.
Lastly, there's the bad press around shooting that some associate with game that can put people off and the lack of game in many butchers that reduces exposure.
I shoot and we eat or give away what is shoot. I have both regulars who will take a brace off me , but I also like to introduce people to game. Many a family at my daughter's successive football clubs went from no, to I'll try it if you dress it and some even ended up at taking them in the feather to try for themselves.
Regards
Mark
Some kids try stuff, while some do not and this goes for run of the mill without even thinking about the off the beaten track (pardon the pun) foods. This can run into adulthood too, with people remaining unadventurous in their food choices.
Lastly, there's the bad press around shooting that some associate with game that can put people off and the lack of game in many butchers that reduces exposure.
I shoot and we eat or give away what is shoot. I have both regulars who will take a brace off me , but I also like to introduce people to game. Many a family at my daughter's successive football clubs went from no, to I'll try it if you dress it and some even ended up at taking them in the feather to try for themselves.
Regards
Mark
Danhfromwales
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My Mrs is the same, the pheasants I've been recently bringing back from my beating she won't even sniff at.
I'm due on my 1st stalk in Jan and fingers crossed if I come back with a carcass (I have a butcher on stand by also), she's already assured me she doesn't like it and won't be having any (she's never tried venison).
She links wild meat to essentialy being "dirty" even though she does accept that factory farmed animals are in poorer health and most likely pumped full of drugs.
It's so bizarre as she grew up quite rural and participated in ferreting with her dad. He told me it all changed when she was a teenager. So bizarre.
I think the solution is to introduce game meat and it's acquisition at a young age. Not in your face but an introduction. Myself growing up in primary school in the early 2000's it was all high processed crap.
I'm due on my 1st stalk in Jan and fingers crossed if I come back with a carcass (I have a butcher on stand by also), she's already assured me she doesn't like it and won't be having any (she's never tried venison).
She links wild meat to essentialy being "dirty" even though she does accept that factory farmed animals are in poorer health and most likely pumped full of drugs.
It's so bizarre as she grew up quite rural and participated in ferreting with her dad. He told me it all changed when she was a teenager. So bizarre.
I think the solution is to introduce game meat and it's acquisition at a young age. Not in your face but an introduction. Myself growing up in primary school in the early 2000's it was all high processed crap.
Mr Tree
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Who killed Bambi??
The main reason people don't eat venison is that they have never been hungry. Those of us left and who remember rationing would gnaw the arse off a skunk when we were kids. My sons were just the same and would always eat large volumes of whatever was put on the dinner table.
People nowadays are more interested in disposable income than eating food that is good for them.
People nowadays are more interested in disposable income than eating food that is good for them.
In Western Australia we invited all our Aussie mates round for a bbq. It coincides with burns night so we cooked up snags on the barbie and found through workmates where to get haggis and had a joint burns/ Aussie do.
After a good few cleansing ales, wines and drams and a good feed the Aussie wives asked where we got the snags as they were, and I quote ‘bloody good’
When they realised they were kangaroo snags things got a bit shirty. The ladies had never eaten skippy before and not happy.
Who knew? I mean its plentiful, lean and tasty.
‘being a townie’ is more a state of mind than about where you live, and its worldwide.
After a good few cleansing ales, wines and drams and a good feed the Aussie wives asked where we got the snags as they were, and I quote ‘bloody good’
When they realised they were kangaroo snags things got a bit shirty. The ladies had never eaten skippy before and not happy.
Who knew? I mean its plentiful, lean and tasty.
‘being a townie’ is more a state of mind than about where you live, and its worldwide.
