Chinese restaurants buying meat from shooters

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I always wonder about chicken in these places. For definite my mate was selling a hundred rabbits to one takeaway in Bolsover every Friday when he was a young underkeeper. That was over 30 years ago, mind!
There was definitely no rabbit on the menu...

 

[Mr Tree]

The Chinese actually regard the Fox with suspicion, to see a fox they say it is a lost soul of a recently deceased relative. Like wise in Ireland, it was unluckiy to hear the Wailing of the Banshees (or call of the Vixen.)

 

[WalkedUp]

My pal Fat Johnny is British but both his parents are Chinese. He’s now a very wealthy slumlord but started off running his parents’ takeaway. He’s very funny and a fantastic shot on game and driven boar. Anyway he tells lots of funny stories about the shenanigans to maximise profit in those places but said that most of the chefs in them have no better idea or facilities to butcher roadkill etc than any other chef. It is just not worth their effort when low quality frozen meat is so cheap. He said it if you’re eating Chinese at a rat joint and it tastes like Alsatian you can rest assured that it was added in the factory and has passed all food hygiene tests required to be fit for ****head consumption.

 

[Dickie]

Back when I was a youth we would sometimes run a net or 2 and after a successful trip we took a dustbin full of mullet into the local Chinese takeaway, once the deal was done and we were leaving it was jokingly said about the cod on the menu, we were told to f£ck off it was too good for us and was for sharing with the family.

 

[andy R204]

I was in a Chinese restaurant once and the waiter came over to ask how my meal was.
I told him it's rubbery. He said " ow, fank you vewwy much....."!

Weeported

 

[Taff]

A lot of the chicken used to be ex layers, generally breast meat, although very small easily precessed nothing wrong with it, the rest going to pet food or fertiliser, before BSE along with feathers into cattle feed.
as for dog, Iworked with some Chinese in the 2000s and they brought vacuum packed in-from china and would never serve it to westerners as it was a delicacy.

 

[levigsp]

In the 70s i sold foxes skinned and cleaned to one Chinese takeaway owner.
The paid me more for them then they would for chicken or pork.
They explained that for them it was the same as dog and a delicacy.
So they buy it as their own treat.
If the put fox meat into even their strongest flavours, you would know instantly.
As for swapping rabbit for chicken, has anyone been into a Chinese wholesalers, the price of big chickens is less than rabbit, even chicken breast meat is cheap. And one final thought, if someone ate rabbit and thought it chicken, the must be blind drunk or on drugs.

 

[Jon P]

Over the years I have dealt with a few illegal slaughter cases.(sheep) . Only one of these cases involved a food premises ,most were in people’s back gardens. One live sheep seen being dragged into the front of the shop via cctv. - this was not a Chinese Restaurant though.

 

[Tim.243]

Hmmm...really depends on the Chinese in question. Some wouldn't even think of eating some of the stuff mentioned here. Others, from the lower classes, would (and do) eat just about anything (which happens when you're hungry).

Largely though, Chinese people, especially two or three generations after immigrating, wouldn't eat a fox/dog. As mentioned, why would you with the relatively low cost of industrialized meat available? Eels? Deer? Shellfish? Sure. Dogs, cats, rats? Uh-uh...

And for the record, I'm half Chinese, so I kinda know of what I speak...and grew up eating quite a bit of traditional Chinese food (and not that crap you find in a takeaway or sit-down Chinese restaurant).

That will explain a lot about the food.

 

[Phil fox man]

Who cares! if it tastes good and doesn't make you ill just eat it.
Food is the spice of life.
It's just a cultural thing,look at what we eat.
Dried blood and fat (black pudding)
Animals insides in a stomach (haggis)
Snails,sea food,frogs, reptiles to name but a few.
Anyway come the apcolipse we will all be living on beans, ( human beans).
My motto is " get it on the plate and get it ate)
Phil

 

[Phil fox man]

And if after eating every thing and every body I might consider a Richmond sausage

 

[Smellydog]

Who cares! if it tastes good and doesn't make you ill just eat it.
Food is the spice of life.
It's just a cultural thing,look at what we eat.
Dried blood and fat (black pudding)
Animals insides in a stomach (haggis)
Snails,sea food,frogs, reptiles to name but a few.
Anyway come the apcolipse we will all be living on beans, ( human beans).
My motto is " get it on the plate and get it ate)
Phil

Dog **** fritters?

 

[Smellydog]

And if after eating every thing and every body I might consider a Richmond sausage

I once got asked by some youths outside the co-op to get them some Richmond's and they handed me the money.
The abuse I got when I returned with the sausages they asked for was shocking!

 

[JTO]

lots of squid being bought by 'orientals' localy. Sounds like that could be 'rubbery' chicken!

 

[Stevie/P]

The abuse I got when I returned with the sausages they asked for was shocking!

Perhaps they were expecting hostages

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, While on a visit to China a few years back I went and looked around a market within a Chinese community, What I see for sale was truly ghastly !!!

 

[tackb]

Who cares! if it tastes good and doesn't make you ill just eat it.
Food is the spice of life.
It's just a cultural thing,look at what we eat.
Dried blood and fat (black pudding)
Animals insides in a stomach (haggis)
Snails,sea food,frogs, reptiles to name but a few.
Anyway come the apcolipse we will all be living on beans, ( human beans).
My motto is " get it on the plate and get it ate)
Phil

this!

just eat it and stop worrying , even if it's awful or off the human body will reject it one end or the other !

 

[Bavarianbrit]

On our trip to South Carolina in 2007 my pal shot a whitetail and we took it to the local Chinese eatery they snapped his hand off in exchange for us getting a feast.

 

[W1LL]

When I was based up Kinloss, the local Chinese got shut down for failing a food hygiene inspection, apparently the duck dishes on the menu were actually made from seagulls

 

[spandit]

I was tasked with setting up for a local market in a car park in town which was supposed to be clear. It was a hot day and there was a car parked in there which was an annoyance. Peering through the window, we could see loads of boxes of "fresh" chicken. Suffice to say, when the proprietors of the local Indian restaurant eventually turned up to move it, I made a note never to eat there again...