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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 05 7:01 pm Post subject:
We'll find out.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 05 7:02 pm Post subject:
Keep us informed Nettie

cab

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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 05 10:06 pm Post subject:
A quick googling brings up this: https://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/viandier/viandier420.html#viandier24 And, maybe more usefully, this: https://www.globalguide.org/scotland/articles/3.html

nettie

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 12:00 am Post subject:
Good lord Cab you never cease to amaze me!

judith

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 9:24 am Post subject:
If you are not worried about not having the bones left over to make cormorant stock, then you could just skin the bird and cut off the joints. Much faster and no contact with fishy cormorant guts at all!

tahir

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:18 am Post subject:
Good idea Judith.

nettie

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:40 am Post subject:
Have you tried cormorant, Judith? What's it like?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:41 am Post subject:
Chicken? (Only fishier)

judith

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:49 am Post subject:

nettie wrote:

Have you tried cormorant, Judith? What's it like?

No, I've never tried it. I imagine it might need slow cooking with all that swimming it does.
I'm just trying to make the dressing part sound less intimidating so you will try it. Then you can come back and tell us all about it

deerstalker

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 7:45 pm Post subject:
Tried shelduck once and penguin in the South Atlantic. Both were revolting................

pricey

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:31 pm Post subject:
I have to confess(or maybe i shouldn't) to eating seagull when I was young, that was ok tasted a bit like.... no not what your thinking seagull fishy but good. It was slow cooked and was fine, stew I think

dougal

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 10:51 pm Post subject:

I know cormarants have a great appetite for fish - but I rather liked the ones I've met. They're quite bright. Did anyone else see/remember a tv documentary of a couple of years ago on Chinese trained cormorants fishing and retrieving to a boat?

If I ever go to the Faroe Islands, it wouldn't be to eat puffin.

But seagulls are another matter entirely. The eggs are supposedly a 'foodie' treat - anyone tried them? Any suggestions re 'candleling'-type selection? Any health problems from urban gulls eggs - salmonella?

deerstalker

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 05 11:21 pm Post subject:
Sorry eating shite hawks (sorry seagulls) is a last resort. I've eaten them in the army, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. They scavenge on tips and rotting remains. I've even seen them scooping up human excrement from untreated sewer outfalls. Yuk, yuk, yuk.

cab

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 05 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone tried cormorant?

nettie wrote:

My dad's neighbour has a license to cull cormorants from his fishing lake, he just leaves the carcasses there for the fox! Has anyone tried them? It seems such a waste.

So dod you try cormorant, Nettie?

nettie

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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 05 5:02 pm Post subject:
No, i wasn't able to bring myself to do it, it all seems a bit fishy for my liking, and the birds have gone now for the summer. Maybe next time!

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