Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 30/11/2024 20:56, D wrote:

  On Sat, 30 Nov 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 30/11/2024 11:06, D wrote:

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Duck and ptarmigans are good! I suspect I would also like swans, but never had the chance to try.

 Illegal here unless you are the king!

 WTF!? In what medieval country do you live? ;) I had it in iceland, my grand father shot it and it was excellent!
 

United Kingdom. All swans belong to the crown and only Royalty is allowed to eat it or serve it, and I think some university colleges.

Surely no one follows this law? I mean, I am certain there's old cruft and cobwebs in the swedish law book, but no one seriously follows it.

Tried goose? That's expensive and full of grease but nice tasting.

 No, goose does sound like a good option too! It is very impopular here where I live in eastern europe. =(
 

Really?

Haven't seen it in the store so far, nor have I heard of anyone eating it.

And if wild and shot (Canada goose) very very good.

 I often thought about shooting a canada goose myself. There are 1000s of them in sweden, and 100s of them pooping in one of my favourite parks. I do wonder how full of poisons they are though? If they were clean, trying to kill a bird or two at night would be nice for me, and nice for the park! ;)

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Canada geese just fine. Where I live there is an old moat round a 1000 year old Hall.  Its a kind of trick stop for migrating geese on their way to/from Scandinavia
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Late friend decided to stand on the approach - geese turn into wind to land there - and got *three* geese with two barrels.

Blessings to your friend for reducing the amount of poopers that reach sweden! This is very interesting! I have to talk to an acquaintance who is a hunter to shoot one. If I find one in the country side, since they are not shy at all, it should be completely feasible for me to shoot one with my longbow. A bird the size of a canada goose is super easy to hit at 10 yards.

The only poison in them was lead pellets and you spit those out.

An ancient trick I learned is that you put them close to an industrial strength electro magnet and rip out the bullets. Alternatively you can but them in an MRI machine. I know in medieval sweden, this is what they used to do!

The other delicacy is seafaring ducks. The ones that feed by the sea. Never expect anything off a duck that lived in a pond, They always taste of mud.

But the ones that live in estuaries are first rate.