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[LittleLakePhil]

Barf



Yeah, how you kill makes a huge difference.

I am sure I already told ya all how when we first moved up here, majorly strapped for cash.... someone very kindly gave us some roadkill moose.

I had never eaten moose before, and Spouse is an excellent cook.. can make crud junk meat taste great. But that moose meat was so bad, even spouse couldn't make it edible.

Later on I ate good moose, and learned more about road kill moose.

That moose we were given clearly had not died quickly.

Happy animal = tasty meat. Just sayin'

Moose is supposed to be excellent..... never had.
But my venison is always good.
I'm just not as much of an meat eater as I once was. Especially beef for some reason I can't eat much of it. But I really love veggies these days..... weird.

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan, how many 'barf' categories do you have ?

Many. Silly man, don't you?

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Unripe? Rotting? Odd colors there. Hummmmm.

 

[room onthebroom]

Moose is supposed to be excellent..... never had.
But my venison is always good.
I'm just not as much of an meat eater as I once was. Especially beef for some reason I can't eat much of it. But I really love veggies these days..... weird.

Maybe your donor was a vegan.

 

[dan26552]

Many. Silly man, don't you?



Unripe? Rotting? Odd colors there. Hummmmm.

Not fully ripe and got hit by frost.

 

[room onthebroom]

My ex husband used to work through deer season at our local processing plant. Um ya. I've heard too many stories too. We process our own also. Grind our own burger. Agree with Phil about not cutting into the bone.
One issue is a lot of places like our processing plant do hire seasonal help. . and those guys are just there to make extra money. They know nothing about food safety or sanitation. I remember him talking about cutting horns off of a deer and green slime coming out.
They processed it anyway.
Maybe it was safe. . I don't know. But I'd prefer to know I'm eatin my own deer and not someone else's who may have left theirs in the back of their pickup for two days before bringing it in.

Oh! Ugh! Erp!

I've gotta buy eggs for T-day & I'm even leery of that after reading what some people think is normal. Do you guys remember the person who sold eggs & said someone complained that her eggs weren't fresh. The poster claimed they had been laid within that month. Ok, I eat my hens eggs a month+ old, but if you're selling me 'fresh' eggs I want them A LOT fresher than that.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Oh! Ugh! Erp!

I've gotta buy eggs for T-day & I'm even leery of that after reading what some people think is normal. Do you guys remember the person who sold eggs & said someone complained that her eggs weren't fresh. The poster claimed they had been laid within that month. Ok, I eat my hens eggs a month+ old, but if you're selling me 'fresh' eggs I want them A LOT fresher than that.

Ew.. same here...

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Maybe your donor was a vegan.

I dunno

 

[room onthebroom]

I dunno

Well whoever they were, they were a Super Hero!!!

 

[WVduckchick]

My ex husband used to work through deer season at our local processing plant. Um ya. I've heard too many stories too. We process our own also. Grind our own burger. Agree with Phil about not cutting into the bone.
One issue is a lot of places like our processing plant do hire seasonal help. . and those guys are just there to make extra money. They know nothing about food safety or sanitation. I remember him talking about cutting horns off of a deer and green slime coming out.
They processed it anyway.
Maybe it was safe. . I don't know. But I'd prefer to know I'm eatin my own deer and not someone else's who may have left theirs in the back of their pickup for two days before bringing it in.

Yuck!
And like Bobbi said, the gutting and cleaning is hugely important. We had a guy kill a deer on our farm property, then told us we could have the meat. Sure sounded good, we knew it had just been killed. But we could tell that they hit the urine sac while gutting it and the whole thing was tainted.

 

[sourland]

I made him strip in the laundry room .

Do you then hose him down with high pressure cold water ?