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macconraoi
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| wayland wrote: | | When I was a lad a good days ferreting would see us with a stick over our shoulder with many rabbits hamstrung over it. We would be stopped by locals who would buy a brace or two. Do we live in better times now? |
I don't think we necessarily live in better times.People are far removed from their meat.People don't want to know or (worse still) care where their meat comes from or the life it had before it landed on their plate,
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phil
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Location: tubbercurry, co. sligo
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: |
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As far as im concerned we don't live in better times,progress doesn't always mean better.We seem to be getting further removed from where meat comes from all the time,ratting is something done by people on the telly,
It's ok for HFW to kill a few rabbits and make some poncy dish that people ooh and ahh over,but if you offered the same people a brace of rabbits they couldn't be bothered to clean them.
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wayland
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Location: Campile. Wexford
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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Reading back, we do look like a bunch of old farts with "It was better in my day" . Well f**k it was  .
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phil
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| Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Its only when you do think back, that you realise how good it was.
I know what you mean about the old farts though.
All we need now is blowin banging on about his Hippy days. |
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wayland
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| Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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 I look forward to that
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blowin
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| phil wrote: | | ...All we need now is blowin banging on about his Hippy days. |
Can't remember them ......so I must have been there , as they say
Do remember making my first pocket money at the age of 5 by skinning rabbit which went into the fur trade -- for gloves I think . A Tanner ( 6 pence ) a pelt , about the same as the bounty on a grey squirrel tail in later years . Good money in those days .
My old Grandad was a Gamekeeper in Rutland before the dam was built and the whole county was turned into a massive reservoir . Part of his responsibility was to control the rabbit population on the estate but I think he was sad when this horrible disease helped him in that task .
It is a long time since I have eaten wild rabbit but seem to remember that the young ones are very tasty but the mature bucks take on a taint which is a bit strong for the average pallet . |
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wayland
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I cought many a pike on Rutland water. I think that NZ whites taste better than any wild rabbit. Having said this i like to eat wild rabbit. There is one that frequents my veg plot as I write. Now there is an "R" in the month he is fare game me thinks.
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