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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Eating Mutton Birds

How much do you know about Mutton Birds? Have you ever eaten one? Some people have a less than compimentary attitude, being prepared to say that they are the only food that they cannot eat.
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Anonymous said...

I have eaten mutton bird, but only a very small amount.

Some time ago, I resigned my post as a cataloguer at the University of Tasmania and took a job as a grill "chef" at a bistro in Battery Point (Hobart). During the mutton bird season, the bistro's owners sourced a few of the birds with the view to putting grilled mutton bird on the menu. Before offering it to our clientele, we tried it ourselves. The taste was bland, the meat was tough and quite greasy and the smell was revolting.

So, if one is tempted to stick his arm down the bird's burrow, pull it out and wring its neck (the traditional method of mutton birding), be aware that whatever pleasure might be obtained from this beast, it begins and ends there. Those Tasmanians sure know how to have fun...

July 18, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Horatio Marcus Murkel said...

Was it your experience, admittedly distasteful, of collecting the birds which put you off. I have never been able to eat chicken feet because of associations

August 16, 2007 at 7:36 PM

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