#321884 - Tue Sep 12 2006 03:15 PM
Eating Our 'National' Symbol
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Multiloquent
Registered: Sun Aug 08 2004
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Loc: Sth East Qld Australia
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Just wondering, after lunching out yesterday on Kangaroo and Crocodile burgers, where else in the world can you eat your 'National' symbol? Mmmm, the Croc was yummy (Vale Steve Irwin  ) and the 'Roo was delicious!
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#321885 - Tue Sep 12 2006 03:33 PM
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Registered: Fri May 18 2001
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Loc: Canton
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I think Eagles are safe over here. Not only are they not popularly consumed, it'd definitely be a felony to eat one, I'm guessing ...
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#321887 - Tue Sep 12 2006 06:09 PM
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Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999
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Loc: Jersey
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No way would I eat our 'national symbol', it might even be poisonous, it is a toad. Ewk.
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#321888 - Tue Sep 12 2006 06:11 PM
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Registered: Tue May 15 2001
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Loc: Australia
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Kangaroo is a very lean meat and it is in abundance. It's just the thought of eating Skippy and the ill-advised rants of PETA that more people don't eat it.
Your Eagles are endagered, Gats? Or getting that way?
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#321889 - Tue Sep 12 2006 06:33 PM
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Loc: Sth East Qld Australia
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#321892 - Tue Sep 12 2006 08:03 PM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Tue Dec 28 2004
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Loc: Hertfordshire<br>England UK
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I don't think England has an official National animal, though we do have a National flower, which is the rose. Scotland, Wales, and Ireland also have National flowers - the thistle, the daffodil, and the shamrock. Wales traditionally also has a National vegetable which is the leek, and we eat these regularly.
Unless I was really desperate, I wouldn't eat any animal which was a carnivore, such as crocodile. I recall reading a medical report about eating the meat of carnivores causing serious liver or kidney damage, and was put off for life.
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#321894 - Wed Sep 13 2006 05:55 AM
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Participant
Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006
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Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
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Eagles are actually quite tasty if properly cooked, as they tend to be tough. I generally boil mine with cabbage for approximately 3 hours, which not only tenderizes but makes my version of the Irish dish...cheap and tasty. Eagles are easily harvested if one is patient enough to wait for them to drop dead and fall to the ground; on occasion they fall near various types of roadkill, which makes a nice gravy if properly sauteed.
Edited by jazzycatzz (Wed Sep 13 2006 06:35 AM)
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#321895 - Wed Sep 13 2006 12:31 PM
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Multiloquent
Registered: Tue Dec 28 2004
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Loc: Hertfordshire<br>England UK
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Quote:
Eagles are actually quite tasty if properly cooked, as they tend to be tough. I generally boil mine with cabbage for approximately 3 hours, which not only tenderizes but makes my version of the Irish dish...cheap and tasty. Eagles are easily harvested if one is patient enough to wait for them to drop dead and fall to the ground; on occasion they fall near various types of roadkill, which makes a nice gravy if properly sauteed.
Do you have them as a starter or as a main course? 
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#321896 - Wed Sep 13 2006 01:21 PM
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Registered: Fri Sep 01 2006
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Loc: Cleveland, Ohio
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Thank you for asking...I personally tend to eat the dish initially as a main course and, because there are usually leftovers (depending on the size of both the eagle and the cabbage) happily eat the remeinder as an appetizer for the remainder of the week.
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#321897 - Wed Sep 13 2006 02:08 PM
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Registered: Wed Oct 17 2001
Posts: 8479
Loc: Hastings Sussex
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As Aramis says, we Brits haven't got a national animal, except perhaps the British bulldog (which, like Sue's toad, looks much too ugly to eat anyway).
I've heard it said that the English aversion to eating horseflesh goes back to Anglo-Saxon days when the horse had some kind of sacred significance, but I don't think there's any hard evidence to support this.
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