Can I eat this??

[Henrietta23]

And now we wait to hear if BB survived his turkey pig out.....

 

[Bettacreek]

Psh. I'm one who scopes the roads for dead deer. I can never seem to luck out though. Usually they're either obliterated, were hit too long ago or something stupid like that. :/ One day though, I will find a nice roadkill deer, and I will hoist the bastard into my Baja and clean it up. Whatever is too bruised up for my taste will be listed on freecycle for someone who feeds their pets raw.

ETA: The other night Jas and I saw a deer laying on the side of the road. No bloat or anything, so he pulled up to it... the damn thing had its eyes sunken in, it had been there for awhile. It looked fresh from a distance! Lol. I always carry my knife with me. I figure if something tastey gets hit, and I'm not worried about getting killed by it, I can get out, cut the throat, toss it into the back of the Baja and let it bleed out a good bit on the way home.

 

[SKR8PN]

Nothing wrong with roadkill. Two years ago, The Wife and I were on the back deck having dinner when we hear the squeal of tires and a couple of "thuds". Ran out front to see a caravan with both headlights knocked out and a big dent in the drivers door. They hit not one but TWO young deer! They didn't want the deer so when to Highway Patrol got there, I got permission to process them both!

 

[Beekissed]

Yep. Here in the hills, food is more or less food and it ain't dangerous unless it smells bad and is turning green. "It'll put hair on yer chest!" is a common phrase and anyone too scared to eat something questionable is considered a sissy, more or less.

Thus, maybe this explains my attitude towards canning.....

 

[Bettacreek]

Yep. Here in the hills, food is more or less food and it ain't dangerous unless it smells bad and is turning green. "It'll put hair on yer chest!" is a common phrase and anyone too scared to eat something questionable is considered a sissy, more or less.

Thus, maybe this explains my attitude towards canning.....

Lol. My family thinks I'm weird. My steak (even from the grocery store) isn't cooked, just warmed (literally, I smoke it a bit until it's warm all the way through, but it's still nice and red on the outside, lol), if I leave my food out I'll still eat it the next day. If something is a week or two past the due date, I sniff it or feel it (meat feels weird when it's raunchy) and cook it up. If milk or creamer doesn't curdle in my coffee, it's still good (three or four weeks past the due date even, lol). Now, milk is the only one I'm iffy on. When I was very young, I had chocolate milk in the fridge. It sat forgotten until I saw it much, much later. I took a big old swig and almost threw up. It was clumpy and sour and just plain sickening. To this day, I cannot do the "sniff test" on milk. It ALL smells like that carton of chocolate milk. But if it passes the coffee test, then it's still good in my book. Now, BOTH of my ex's have gotten sick from chicken that I've cooked. The boys and I ate it without any issues, but both ex's got pretty darn sick (got major hershey squirts). I say they were raised weak when it comes to food, lol. I'll probably never live it down. Everyone says I try to kill my significant others with food! I just need a stronger man, lol. The new one has yet to eat any of my cooking, so we'll see if he survives. I won't cook chicken for him for awhile, just so that I don't scare him off by making him terribly sick right off the bat. Lol. I'll sneak it in later to see if he's strong enough to handle it. But, my kids have been eating rare steaks ever since they could eat (I started them straight onto the plate, that baby food crap was ridiculous, a lot of it smelled like cat food). My oldest sometimes eats raw from my plate, but my youngest usually just pigs out on his plate and then eats from my oldest's plate, so he never makes it to my plate, lol.

 

[Beekissed]

One of my friends was just telling me this week about a canning OOPs at her house. She had opened a tightly sealed jar of chicken soup~canned ala pressure canner~and dumped it in a pan. Served it to the family without even tasting it.

By the time she got around to tasting the soup, she knew right away that it was bad, spoiled, rotten! It had had no smell to indicate this was the case when she opened it, nor had the color been off.

The kicker? Her daughter had eaten nearly a whole bowl of the stuff before she found this out. Daughter had stated she knew it tasted funny but didn't want to hurt Mom's feelings!

No ill effects were noted to the child or the dogs who subsequently ate the tainted brew.

Mountain folks will eat stuff that smells so bad it would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon!

 

[kcsunshine]

 

[Blackbird]

Survived? Just barely.

I started out at the rear. Unfortunately a single innocent misplaced deep cut resulted in an explosion of you don't want to know what. I swear the entire garage was filled with poisonous gas. I seriously thought about throwing him away, but continued instead.

The veins around the heart and crop were all filled with blood and swollen but the heart itself and all other organs looked healthy and normal.

I did have some issues with the tendons in the legs, but other than that minor mishap at the beginning, all went well.

I parted him into whole breast, thighs, legs, neck, (saved the heart), upper back, and lower back (my parts skills apparently need touching up on). I didn't save the wings or any of the other organs. Everything looked fine, so no creepy meat here! LOL. He dressed out around ten pounds, so not terrible.

 

[lorihadams]

WOW!

I am sooooo gonna have to get some of those birds.....now if I can just sneak another coop past hubby.....


Did ya eat it yet?

 

[TanksHill]

Is it normal for turkey meat to be so dark??

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