would you eat road kill??? this lady does

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Mum-to-be's pregnancy cravings for ROAD KILL

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Nov 9, 2011



Mum-to-be Alison Brierley's pregnancy cravings for ROAD KILLCaters
A 42-year-old mum-to-be has revealed how she has given in to her pregnancy craving for ROAD KILL.

Alison Brierley has been scoffing the dead animals she finds on the roads near her Harrogate home, explaining that she loves their 'gamey' taste.

Artist Alison previously collected the animal corpses to make jewellery and taxidermy.

"Usually I eat really healthily but now I'm pregnant I get strong cravings for road kill," she told reporters, "It's more gamey than other meat and I love the taste. I also don't have to feel guilty about eating it because I know it's had a completely free range and natural life."

So far Alison has rustled up meals containing hare, deer, pigeon, rabbit and owls, although pheasant is her signature dish.

She has a wish-list of other beasts to try: "I would like to try fox and badger but they're never in good enough condition to eat; although I have used them for my artwork," she says.

Alison has also dished up her furry finds for guests at dinner parties - and her friends even phone her to tell her when they've spotted a dead animal!

"They trust me and they know I'm a good cook so I think they love it. I get the best meat from friends who ring me up to tell me about a kill they've spotted on their way to work," she says.

Wow. Puts the usual cravings for licking tyres and nibbling coal in the shade, doesn't it? And don't you just love her blue plastic gloves?

What was your pregnancy craving?
 
I've eaten roadkill, I've never really been pregnant (or should that be never been really pregnant?), does that make me weird?

She sound a bit odd anyway. Who makes jewellery from squashed corpses?:eek:
 
CaveCanem said:
I have. Saw a pheasant get hit by a car in front of me, went down a bank, I parked and went after it and it had died. So I hung it and ate it.
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waste not what not I say lol
I suppose when cleanly killed and fresh .

I always think of road kill as being squashed flat or maggots in it as you never know how long its been there or if it was diseased before.

I killed two pheasants one damn thing rang out in front of the horsebox got to the white line proceeded on the other side change its mind rang back my way then flew up last minute *WAM!!!!!* hit my luton went flying over the box and the car behind they are such stupid birds, if he had continued he would have made it the other side as only 2 way traffic ( 2 lanes total )

the other time again in horsebox dam thing ran out in front and wam.!!!!




The most recent was on A40 stupid thing tried to run across the motorway got to fast lane ( i was middle lane ) and it made it in front of me but lady in fast lane wamed it it went under car feathers everywhere.
 
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Roadkill is fine as long as the animal is killed instantly. My husband says it is when their adrenaline kicks in and they take time to die, the meat gets a funny flavour and is quite tough... Maybe she is craving adrenaline!?
 
Leviathan said:
Mum-to-be's pregnancy cravings for ROAD KILL

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Nov 9, 2011



Mum-to-be Alison Brierley's pregnancy cravings for ROAD KILLCaters
A 42-year-old mum-to-be has revealed how she has given in to her pregnancy craving for ROAD KILL.

Alison Brierley has been scoffing the dead animals she finds on the roads near her Harrogate home, explaining that she loves their 'gamey' taste.

Artist Alison previously collected the animal corpses to make jewellery and taxidermy.

"Usually I eat really healthily but now I'm pregnant I get strong cravings for road kill," she told reporters, "It's more gamey than other meat and I love the taste. I also don't have to feel guilty about eating it because I know it's had a completely free range and natural life."

So far Alison has rustled up meals containing hare, deer, pigeon, rabbit and owls, although pheasant is her signature dish.

She has a wish-list of other beasts to try: "I would like to try fox and badger but they're never in good enough condition to eat; although I have used them for my artwork," she says.

Alison has also dished up her furry finds for guests at dinner parties - and her friends even phone her to tell her when they've spotted a dead animal!

"They trust me and they know I'm a good cook so I think they love it. I get the best meat from friends who ring me up to tell me about a kill they've spotted on their way to work," she says.

Wow. Puts the usual cravings for licking tyres and nibbling coal in the shade, doesn't it? And don't you just love her blue plastic gloves?

What was your pregnancy craving?
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Oh my goodness this is where i live!! My Dad once picked up some road kill..... a pheasent he'd hit.... unfortunately for him said pheasent came back to life in his car. oops.
 
My brothers both do. One finds deer roadkill occasionally and shoots pheasant and rabbit in his garden and the other regularly eats pheasant roadkill. Against my better judgement I allowed him to feed me some pheasant casserole and do you know what? It was fabulous :D
 
I dont but my dogs soon will as are fed on a raw food diet.
I generally drive to work around 6am along country roads so plenty of fresh kills on route. Just need to organise the cool box to keep them in until I get home in the evening. Dont think people would be too happy finding a few dead rabbits in the office fridge.
 
nothing wrong with a bit of RK:p i would think 99% of the venison i eat is RK, and it's certainly never tasted tainted, infact it's bloomin lovely!!
would not even consider eating badger or fox like the mad woman in the article though, there are good reasons why we don't eat meateaters or scavengers!!
Rabbit, partridge, duck and pheasant are all fair game (haha) round here though, friend is a shooter and hubs does a bit too when he has time so there's usually something freshly plucked hiding in the freezer, christmas dinner this year was pheasant and partridge, much tastier than boring turkey:)
 
I don't eat meat but if I did I wouldn't be stopping my car to pick up road kill :D

The only thing that would bother me, is the animal could in theory have eaten poison or something before it died. Unlikely I know but you never know :D

I don't think it disgusting or anything, after all if you eat meat, it's better that it's had a natural life. But not sure i'd want to try owl!! I have never seen a dead owl on the side of the road! I bet she goes round slaughtering all these animals to feed her habit. :D
 
LCH611 said:
the shock of being hit results in a nasty chemical reaction which taints the meat, so no, I wouldn't eat roadkill
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I don't think this is true, because many (most?) eaten pheasants are shot, and the roadkill my brother cooked me was absolutely gorgeous.
 
cptrayes said:
I don't think this is true, because many (most?) eaten pheasants are shot, and the roadkill my brother cooked me was absolutely gorgeous.
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meat scientist wandering in.....

If an animal is stressed before death then the glycogen in the muscle can start to break down and the meat acquires a different flavour due to the lack of lactic acid hanging about, it also means that it doesn't keep for as long and is why animals are rested post travelling before slaughter.

So shooting is fine if it dies straight off, as is roadkill if it gets a bash to the head. However if it sits there dying for an hour it isn't going to taste very nice.

meat scientist wanders out again ;)
 
I would certainly pick up something (esp pheasant) that I saw just killed - nothing wrong with that. There are plenty of deer knocked over around here, but I think you would have to be stronger than me to pick one of those up! They've always vanished within a few minutes, mind you!

My grandad always aimed for a pheasant if he saw one when out driving!!
 
Yum! Got six pheasants in a week once with my little mini car,lovely. Had a fallow deer ..previous car had knocked it ,and a couple of guys came along who had a shotgun ..but I claimed the carcase.The best ever was someone`s pet duck that wandered ooooooon the road in front of OH`s car,now that was very nice fat and yummy. I would prefer RK over the poor things that are "legally" killed,at least they are gone anyway ..so no guilt attached there.
 
Yes - as a child was regularly dispatched to fetch freshly dispatched RK. Absolutley Nothing wrong with using game that has led a free range life and been dispatched quickly...
 
Yep if i had just seen it killed and it wasnt too mangled! Especially pheasant.. mmmmmm! Wouldnt go around picking up everything though, you dont know how long its been there!
 
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