Nak & Æd (Kill & Eat)

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Today is the end of an era here in Denmark. After 16 seasons and 125 episodes, one of the most popular programs on Danish TV comes to an end. (At least for now)

Nak & Æd (a Danish way of saying Kill & Eat) airs on DR1, the equivelant of BBC1 in a prime slot at 8pm and has on average 577000 viewers (just under 10% of the Danish population)

The concept is simple. A hunter, Jørgen and a cook Nicolaj travel to various places both home in Denmark and around the world to hunt or fish for a particular type of prey. This has included all sorts, from quail in Romania to a Hippo in Zambia, Black bear in Canada to snipe in Denmark. However there is a catch. If they don't get what they set out for, they have a back up plan with something they have taken with them. That has included rare delicacies such as moles, goldfish and a fox.

Unfortunately all good things come to an end and Jørgen Skuoboe who is also the person that came up with the idea, is retiring.

It is such a popular program that DR is trying hard to find a replacement for him to continue in 2026 or 2027.

I have to say the difference in attitude to hunting here is refreshing. I find it hard to imagine a program like this being aired in the UK, let alone at prime time on BBC1. In the programme last week they invited a member of the pubIic along as a guest to celebrate 100 years of DR, It turned out the young lady was a vegetarian but also a big fan of the show and actually ended up sampling the dishes that the chef served up.
 
We had a series called 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it' a few years ago. The premise was that members of the public would witness how meat was commercially produced. A controlled environment had them witness the slaughter, processing, and cooking of cattle, sheep, lamb, and pork, with the aim of raising awareness of welfare and ethical production of meat. I think it ran twice, but I've not seen it for years.

We also had the likes of 'River Cottage', which saw a London-based journalist move out to Dorset and try to live a sustainable life. He branched out to try and raise awareness of poor supermarket practices, commercial fishing operations, etc.

And we have an American series called 'Meat Eater', which to my mind is closest to the program you describe.

Hunting is such a minority practice here in the UK though, that a program like the one you describe would probably be very unlikely to be made for a mainstream channel
 
Quixote said:
We had a series called 'Kill it, Cook it, Eat it' a few years ago. The premise was that members of the public would witness how meat was commercially produced. A controlled environment had them witness the slaughter, processing, and cooking of cattle, sheep, lamb, and pork, with the aim of raising awareness of welfare and ethical production of meat. I think it ran twice, but I've not seen it for years.

We also had the likes of 'River Cottage', which saw a London-based journalist move out to Dorset and try to live a sustainable life. He branched out to try and raise awareness of poor supermarket practices, commercial fishing operations, etc.

And we have an American series called 'Meat Eater', which to my mind is closest to the program you describe.

Hunting is such a minority practice here in the UK though, that a program like the one you describe would probably be very unlikely to be made for a mainstream channel
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I always enjoyed River Cottage, especially the earlier seasons. Hugh also did a program called "A cook on the wildside" which was also a good one to watch.
 
The crazy thing is - most of us have access to hunting programmes on the TV - if you have sky you do anyway - and they are very popular - they show snakes being caught - fishermen doing their thing - homesteaders killing deer etc etc - Usually in America and Canada - aired here
Sad we dont make one of our way of lives as i believe the appetite to learn is there
 
They also killed Muntjac in England:


He takes the shot at 21,20.



And the episode when they kill a Scottish Red deer, goes terribly wrong, with a bad shot:


The first shot is taken at 18,20
 
One of your own, Mike Robinson, has a successful show that airs here in the US.
First few seasons were mostly UK game well shot and well prepared for the table.
Unfortunately he has been spending more and more time here, shooting American species and cooking them, which we already have several others doing,

But, he is well sponsored by savage and hornady and other American companies so I’m sure that is a factor on his choice of places to hunt.
 
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The UK telly series Wild Gourmets did much the same back in 2007. Perhaps the Danish series was based on it?

maximus otter
 
BryanDC said:
I have to say the difference in attitude to hunting here is refreshing. I find it hard to imagine a program like this being aired in the UK, let alone at prime time on BBC1.
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Selfoglig - inherent bias in the mindset/culture of the broadcaster - ‘Aunty always knows best’ - is a powerful instrument for steering the public mindset in the way those with their hands on the levers so wish. See the laughable removed from reality ‘Countryfile’ and the ‘sleb’ presenters, the Packham propaganda platform ‘Springwatch’ also another platform for indoctrination and leftist, parasitic propaganda as to how we must regard the countryside and wildlife. Peter Scott - Who he? David Bellamy? — Exiled for dangerously (balanced) views - a traitor to the program of brainwashing the viewers.

In the past we had the likes of Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’, Horizon, and plenty of factual based programmes on the now removed BBC4; today? - Traitors, Strictly, and all sorts of pathetic dumbing down of the masses. Bread and Circuses.

They prefer to misinform rather than inform. BBC is nowadays more caught up in its own culture of ‘ideological superiority’ and indoctrination rather than education and dissemination of news without views. Douglas, Baker, Rippon even, all household names but respected for their impartiality front of screen. The slant of the likes of Vine, Robinson, Maitliss, Sopel, etc is all too apparent to most, and never are they reminded of the principles of the charter. Political animals, all of the same hue.

Now it’s their time to answer for this.
 
maximus otter said:
The UK telly series Wild Gourmets did much the same back in 2007. Perhaps the Danish series was based on it?
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Jørgen came up with the idea during another program frilandshaven he was making at the time, this was a program combining gardening, outdoor cooking and crafts. They were having christmas out in the garden with a difference. They shot santas reindeer and cooked it on the bbq. They needed a chef and invited Nicolaj. It was from here that he got the idea about going out to shoot something and prepare it back at camp.
 
I remember they shot the reindeer with a bolt gun and roasted it on a campfire.
Heard there was a person who wrote a letter of complaint to the TV station and said that they shouldn't show something like that on TV, but dont know if it is true.

Fortunately our TV hasn't been "Disney-fied" yet, and we can still se where meat is coming from, without anything beeing blurred or left out.
 
Quixote said:
So that's where he's ended up. He used to have a program here, where he hunted for produce for his pub (the Pot Kiln, I think?) I used to quite enjoy his programs
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He also did a “Fishing the Wild” show as well, but I haven’t seen any new episodes so I assume that wasn’t as well received

He also routinely mentions his Deer Box company - whereby they shoot, hang, cut and ship direct to consumers
 
Cootmeurer said:
He also did a “Fishing the Wild” show as well, but I haven’t seen any new episodes so I assume that wasn’t as well received

He also routinely mentions his Deer Box company - whereby they shoot, hang, cut and ship direct to consumers
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A bit like "his" restaurants, I'd say that "his" Deerbox is mostly the efforts of others! Full praise to him for setting up Owl Barn Larder and Deerbox initially, but Ben Heath deserves most of the credit (and Brent/Warren) IMHO.
 
Surprised no-one has mentioned MeatEater yet which is arguably a direct equivalent (especially as that has included crayfish, crabs, turkeys, every ungulate known to man and he too was brave stupid enough to do o0ne on Scottish Red deer.
 
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