What is it about venison?

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My 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.
 
I've never had a problem giving away venison at BBQ's, in fact its only my wife that doesnt eat what I shoot. My neighbours before lockdown were avid guests at our annual BBQ.
Sadly we are a different set of neighbours now. I expect I will convert a few new ones especialy if I take a load of small steaks to the annual airshow one my neighbour throws in his back garden.
 
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lie to them and tell them that they are beef sausages... if they like them, then tell them the truth!

my nephew was 'I don't like venison!' which of the deer have you eaten? ... don't know he replied.... try this../...'Kin hell that's bloody gorgeous he says trying a muntjac burger.... he now asks for any spare!
 
I find a lot of people open to the concept. I gave my mechanic a kilo of rump, two portions of loin and a bag of mince the other day. He seemed happier with that than being paid for putting new tyres on the truck.

Most at work (they are more towny folk) are open to it but one is Polish and another Romanian. They are both always asking for it. The English woman, not so much.

It is about permanently encouraging folk to eat dead animals. No point dressing it up. It is more sustainable to kill stuff locally and put it on local people's plates.

Yesterday my nephew was knocking over ferals in the grain barn for his dad when a woody flew in for a munch. He punched it off the beam with the recent PCP i got him and promptly sent me a picture asking "is this fat enough to eat? and how do i deal with it?" So I hotfooted it over there. He tugged all the feathers proudly from the breast and then I did one breast for him slowly showing him what to do and then he did the other one. This was about 10am.

I told him how to fry them off quick and he said he would have them later. By just gone midday he sent me this saying "I might have overdone it but it still was good in a baguette with lots of butter" ha ha ha. Good lad. He has recently turned 13. I told him to tell his mates at school how he fed himself and how tasty it was and that if any of his mates were coming for dinner, let me know and they can have some venison burgers or I will make them up a lasagne or bolognese with minced muntjac.

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We just need to keep the gentle promotion constant and make the whole concept really normal. This includes telling people that you shoot, why you shoot and why it is so good for so many reasons.
 
Whilst some people are put off because they see deer as a cute animal that's not a common food source, just like rabbit, horse, pheasant etc I think the majority just don't want to try something they think they may not like.

A lot of people just aren't adventurous and are put off by thinking it may not taste nice and so don't want to risk it or feel bad about not liking it then wasting it. It's not just what the food is but often how it's cooked or prepared as plenty of people won't touch an exotic chicken dish for fear it's just too different or they won't like the taste.
 
I saw a post on here a while back where someone said they tell their guests they have two sides on the BBQ, one with venison sausages and burgers and the other with pork and beef. But actually they are all venison. That tickled me. I'm going to try it with my partners kids!
 
Cottis said:
I find a lot of people open to the concept. I gave my mechanic a kilo of rump, two portions of loin and a bag of mince the other day. He seemed happier with that than being paid for putting new tyres on the truck.

Most at work (they are more towny folk) are open to it but one is Polish and another Romanian. They are both always asking for it. The English woman, not so much.

It is about permanently encouraging folk to eat dead animals. No point dressing it up. It is more sustainable to kill stuff locally and put it on local people's plates.

Yesterday my nephew was knocking over ferals in the grain barn for his dad when a woody flew in for a munch. He punched it off the beam with the recent PCP i got him and promptly sent me a picture asking "is this fat enough to eat? and how do i deal with it?" So I hotfooted it over there. He tugged all the feathers proudly from the breast and then I did one breast for him slowly showing him what to do and then he did the other one. This was about 10am.

I told him how to fry them off quick and he said he would have them later. By just gone midday he sent me this saying "I might have overdone it but it still was good in a baguette with lots of butter" ha ha ha. Good lad. He has recently turned 13. I told him to tell his mates at school how he fed himself and how tasty it was and that if any of his mates were coming for dinner, let me know and they can have some venison burgers or I will make them up a lasagne or bolognese with minced muntjac.

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We just need to keep the gentle promotion constant and make the whole concept really normal. This includes telling people that you shoot, why you shoot and why it is so good for so many reasons.
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Really enjoyed your write up and efforts at educating!
 
Otto68 said:
Yip, Bambi syndrome,get it all the time.
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My G/F will quite happily eat venison provided it's minced and turned into a lasagna or "bambinaise". As a steak she finds it to strong a flavour. However she does not want to see it in the fur, or hear anything about how it ended up on her plate. She's not squeamish in the slightest as she used to be a pathology technician, but when it comes to cute fluffy animals she doesn't want to give it too much thought.
 
Venison can be quite strong tasting. Personally a rutting red stag is not that good. And venison fat is rancid.

If you a making sausages or burgers it’s worth adding a little belly pork. If you are doing a roast, especially a red deer haunch wrap it in a piece of belly pork. It is utterly wonderful and very good to introduce others to it.

Or make African chocolate- also known as Biltong
 
Heym SR20 said:
Venison can be quite strong tasting. Personally a rutting red stag is not that good. And venison fat is rancid.

If you a making sausages or burgers it’s worth adding a little belly pork. If you are doing a roast, especially a red deer haunch wrap it in a piece of belly pork. It is utterly wonderful and very good to introduce others to it.

Or make African chocolate- also known as Biltong
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Ahh, biltong, I cut my teeth on it growing up in Africa!
 
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