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Not like Chicken

I can confirm Goanna tastes like chicken, and I should expect a knock on the door from the lefty PC brigade and a fine. That said Goanna's are not protected for indigenous people. Another lefty PC load of rubbish.

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Nor Dugongs apparently.

Never eaten Goanna either. I should get out and try some of these more obscure meats.

I tried alligator, which was quite meh - never crocodile, though in theory you shouldn't really be eating apex predators because of the inherent build up of bacteria, metals and carbon 14 as it progresses through the food chain.

Boar is nice though.

I also like rabbit, but the Lefty/PC/Safety brigade has ruined rabbit as a meal in Australia - Commercially sold rabbit (as in from a butcher) must come from an approved and accredited breeder now, and is retailing at very near $40/kg.

Hare, on the other hand, and assuming you can find it, isn't covered, and is incredibly cheap - I've seen it as low as $6 a kg.

Still yet to find a decent supplier of pheasant...


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You're getting to sound like a stuck record! :zzz:

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So are the LEFTY PC BRIGADE

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I saw an interesting stat on rabbits. 24 were originally introduced to Australia and in 2 years there were 6 million ..... or something along those lines.

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We get a lot around here - we are in an industrial estate next to a big area of scrub bush

The lads caught a Brown snake out the back the other day and kept it in a bin until the snake catcher arrived

It was extremely pissed off. I should have taken a video

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I'll hazard a guess that it tasted snakey.

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L (DD then aged 6.5) came home from school in her first or second term here and announced that they had eaten wombat. I was shocked and asked her if she was sure as I thought wombats were protected. She was insistent. I really thought she had got confused with something else. So, I asked around at school and sure enough, she was right!! They had had a bush session with an indigenous guest, who had shown them some bush skills and bush cooking, which included eating wombat. Indigenous people are apparently allowed to kill and eat them, although I think she said this particular wombat was roadkill!

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The type of discrimination we've come to expect.

What did the wombat taste like?

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She didn't really say but said it was good. But that was when she like meat. This week, she's off it:nod: Next week she'll like it again:nod:

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It tasted like I'd imagine an old welly would, ick.

Beoz, just to give you the shites, my ex was Aboriginal so he was allowed to kill the snake :lol:

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You should have!

I probably shouldn't be so dismissive of safety reps, as I realize they do some good work. My feelings towards the industry are coloured by the previously mentioned Panicky Pete, he'd send reams and reams of documents every day, about how managers were responsible for this, and that, and every bloody thing under the sun. Used to do my head in.

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Sort of, Dorothy, and also sort of booty :lol:

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Could be worse and at least you have long summer evenings without having to worry about snake bites. In many places real summer is more like wish it was Spring again:lol:.

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Who doesn't like a bit of booty? 😯