Road Kill [General]
2009 May 26
zymurgist you will be pleased to know there really is a Roadkill Café: www.route66seligmanarizona.com
I actually have one of their t-shirts and that is how I found out about the restaurant. (I bought the t-shirt at a kiosk in Lincoln Heights Galleria about 10 years ago or so then I found out the restaurant really exists) I bought it to wear on the Sunday rides with the bike club. We cycle down country roads and we pass by our share of roadkill while out and about. I only wore it with on a club ride once and my cycling companions were unimpressed. I wore it to work once though and my colleagues were suitably amused.
I actually have one of their t-shirts and that is how I found out about the restaurant. (I bought the t-shirt at a kiosk in Lincoln Heights Galleria about 10 years ago or so then I found out the restaurant really exists) I bought it to wear on the Sunday rides with the bike club. We cycle down country roads and we pass by our share of roadkill while out and about. I only wore it with on a club ride once and my cycling companions were unimpressed. I wore it to work once though and my colleagues were suitably amused.
2009 May 26
My other story is from a few years ago when one of my beef farmers called up and said his wife just hit a deer on the farm and it was ours if we wanted it (called me and another buddy of mine who is a customer of his). So my buddy rushed right out and grabbed it, and spent the night in his garage butchering it! Mmmmm, that was some very good venison!
2009 May 26
while this is not an edible roadkill story, it's the only one I got
about 15 years ago, back in WA State, was dating a gal on the peninsula (on a Reserve)
on the weekends, I'd drive or ferry over and spend time with Charmaine
on one weekend, we were headed to a Medicine Wheel (native healer's meeting) on another reserve
20 minutes into the 35 minute drive, we noticed a porcupine laying in the road
with nothing but logging trucks spotted on the way, we were sure it had been clipped good
needless to say, it was dead
we bundled him up and took it to the Medicine Wheel. No one was inclined to eat it although I was curious but we had no way of telling how long it had laid there (there is rarely any other traffic on that side road other than loggers)
We did claim the reward of 250$
Porcupine quills are used to make beads for NW Indian traditional artwork and the amount of beads made from one porcupine can fetch close to a grand
oh there was the coyote in Arizona 8 years earlier
NO inclination to try coyote meat
*shudders*
about 15 years ago, back in WA State, was dating a gal on the peninsula (on a Reserve)
on the weekends, I'd drive or ferry over and spend time with Charmaine
on one weekend, we were headed to a Medicine Wheel (native healer's meeting) on another reserve
20 minutes into the 35 minute drive, we noticed a porcupine laying in the road
with nothing but logging trucks spotted on the way, we were sure it had been clipped good
needless to say, it was dead
we bundled him up and took it to the Medicine Wheel. No one was inclined to eat it although I was curious but we had no way of telling how long it had laid there (there is rarely any other traffic on that side road other than loggers)
We did claim the reward of 250$
Porcupine quills are used to make beads for NW Indian traditional artwork and the amount of beads made from one porcupine can fetch close to a grand
oh there was the coyote in Arizona 8 years earlier
NO inclination to try coyote meat
*shudders*
2009 May 26
Measuring the internal temperature with a regular stem thermometer can pretty much tell you how long it has been since it was clipped. The warmer, the better :-)
BTW, a buddy has since told me that in another city in Canada (he did not say which) you can register with the police to get on their "road kill calling list". So I sent email to the ottawa police and to 311@ottawa.ca to find out if there is such a list here (and to get registered!)
BTW, a buddy has since told me that in another city in Canada (he did not say which) you can register with the police to get on their "road kill calling list". So I sent email to the ottawa police and to 311@ottawa.ca to find out if there is such a list here (and to get registered!)
2009 May 26
Yeah, I had summer jobs working for the town in my small town of 5000, and I actually worked providing the carcasses to people on the "call list" :-) I'm already rubbing my hands together waiting for a call about a dear! Then I have to figure out how to butcher it - but that should be easy. The only important part is hanging it to bleed and then getting the guts out, and I know how to do that. Cutting it up should be easy from there - "big hunks" is all I really need to know :-)
Butchers on the list please set me straight where required (and/or offer your services for a cut in the final product - I will deliver). I've only butchered poultry in the past.
Butchers on the list please set me straight where required (and/or offer your services for a cut in the final product - I will deliver). I've only butchered poultry in the past.
2009 May 27
When I have to do a project for school, I usually try to present something interesting to people. Something that will stick in their mind. One of my culinary subjects....English....we had to present a food related topic. Yes, I did mine on roadkill recipes. I got a great mark, and made some stomachs turn.
I never knew groundhogs, badgers or even SKUNK could be eaten.
I also talked about foragers and mentioned Jamie Oliver started out as one.
Here is a recipe I found:
Raccoon Kabobs also known as "Ringtail Surprise" (Serves six)
ˇ 2 lbs, reasonably fresh raccoon, cut into one-inch cubes;
ˇ 1/2 cup homemade French dressing
ˇ 2 green peppers, cut into squares
ˇ 1 large onion, cut into one-inch pieces
ˇ 1/3 lb mushroom caps.
Place raccoon cubes in a ceramic bowl and pour dressing over cubes. Let marinate two or more hours. Remove cubes, reserving marinade. Alternate raccoon cubes with pepper squares, onion pieces and mushroom caps on skewers. Brush all with reserved marinade and broil over hot coals until done to desired degree. Turn frequently and baste with marinade as needed.
If anyone wants more, I'd be glad to send them to you.
I never knew groundhogs, badgers or even SKUNK could be eaten.
I also talked about foragers and mentioned Jamie Oliver started out as one.
Here is a recipe I found:
Raccoon Kabobs also known as "Ringtail Surprise" (Serves six)
ˇ 2 lbs, reasonably fresh raccoon, cut into one-inch cubes;
ˇ 1/2 cup homemade French dressing
ˇ 2 green peppers, cut into squares
ˇ 1 large onion, cut into one-inch pieces
ˇ 1/3 lb mushroom caps.
Place raccoon cubes in a ceramic bowl and pour dressing over cubes. Let marinate two or more hours. Remove cubes, reserving marinade. Alternate raccoon cubes with pepper squares, onion pieces and mushroom caps on skewers. Brush all with reserved marinade and broil over hot coals until done to desired degree. Turn frequently and baste with marinade as needed.
If anyone wants more, I'd be glad to send them to you.
2009 May 27
Hey, I live in West Carleton. There is so much roadkill here it is actually a danger. My husband hunts deer in Clayton--for a friend who has a farm--those deer are corn raised and wreak havoc on his fields...but that is another thread. I have noticed that roadkill deer do not taste as good as those that have been killed by arrow or bullet (in Clayton--not WC). I'm wondering if the assault of a vehicle travelling at X km/hour actually bruises the meat. Just a thought. Wild game and roadkill may not necessarily taste the same.
2009 May 28
I myself being a Deer hunter. To salvage a road kill deer. I'd have to be there
soon after it was hit/killed. Depending on the temp I wouldn't touch it
if it was dead for more than a couple hours. Soon after the Venison
is killed, if it's not slaughtered (Field dressed) right away the carcass still creates methane gas and starts to bloat. This would ruin the meat pretty quick.
The trick to tasty venison is to field dress it right away and get the meat
cooled down quickly.
soon after it was hit/killed. Depending on the temp I wouldn't touch it
if it was dead for more than a couple hours. Soon after the Venison
is killed, if it's not slaughtered (Field dressed) right away the carcass still creates methane gas and starts to bloat. This would ruin the meat pretty quick.
The trick to tasty venison is to field dress it right away and get the meat
cooled down quickly.
2010 Mar 15
I used to know a lady who once lived in Arizona where she claimed to have cooked up rattlers that she picked up of the highway. Not sure which variety, though. Apparently there are 13 different kinds in Arizona alone :-)
Link not safe for the ophidiophobic!!!!!
www.azgfd.gov
Link not safe for the ophidiophobic!!!!!
www.azgfd.gov
2010 Jun 2
pretty sure roadkill in cosmetics is an urban legend. google tells me that one specific company starting spreading rumours about rival companies - that they used roadkill in their lipsticks and bat poop in mascara. it was all a marketing thing.
the logistics of transporting roadkill to a cosmetic factory just don't add up.
in pennsylvania i have seen road crews pave over dead deer. just cover it with asphalt and leave the legs poking through. this happened fairly regularly, though the head of transportation insists this is not standard practice.
the logistics of transporting roadkill to a cosmetic factory just don't add up.
in pennsylvania i have seen road crews pave over dead deer. just cover it with asphalt and leave the legs poking through. this happened fairly regularly, though the head of transportation insists this is not standard practice.
2010 Jun 2
Feel free an believe what you believe. I have relatives who work in the food industry which TOTALLY made me believe in their philosophy and business practices that NOTHING goes to waste.
There are companies that take roadkill, hospital biological wastes like placentas etc en masse... are all boiled, processed for their fats for cosmetics. Not really advertised.
Also consider the entire juice industry is a sham. When you buy commercial juice, there are hardly anything natural left. I buy a juicer and make my own juice and consider all commercial juice a complete waste of money and just plain bad for my body. Fruits and veggies lose their vinamins and nutrients the instant their are cut off from their plant and water supply so to extend their shelf life, they're processed for flavor and the only vitamins you get are artificially added:
www.myessentia.com
And my cousin works as a tomato picker for a large canning company and all rejected, rotten, infested and waste tomatoes not fit for selling whole in grocery stores are processed, boiled, artifically colored and loaded with sugar to make KETCHUP!!! From finding this out at work, my cousin never touches ketchup ever again
So believe all around you when it comes to animal and food waste and by-products, NOTHING GOES TO WASTE, it all goes somewhere!!!!
just my 2 cents...
XOXOX KC
There are companies that take roadkill, hospital biological wastes like placentas etc en masse... are all boiled, processed for their fats for cosmetics. Not really advertised.
Also consider the entire juice industry is a sham. When you buy commercial juice, there are hardly anything natural left. I buy a juicer and make my own juice and consider all commercial juice a complete waste of money and just plain bad for my body. Fruits and veggies lose their vinamins and nutrients the instant their are cut off from their plant and water supply so to extend their shelf life, they're processed for flavor and the only vitamins you get are artificially added:
www.myessentia.com
And my cousin works as a tomato picker for a large canning company and all rejected, rotten, infested and waste tomatoes not fit for selling whole in grocery stores are processed, boiled, artifically colored and loaded with sugar to make KETCHUP!!! From finding this out at work, my cousin never touches ketchup ever again
So believe all around you when it comes to animal and food waste and by-products, NOTHING GOES TO WASTE, it all goes somewhere!!!!
just my 2 cents...
XOXOX KC
2010 Jun 2
"There are companies that take roadkill, hospital biological wastes like placentas etc en masse... are all boiled, processed for their fats for cosmetics. Not really advertised. "
obviously such practice would not be advertised, but please give me links to legitimate research data that can back up the above claim. i am googling and i can not find anything that says roadkill is used in cosmetics. something like that would be all over peta at least, and i can find nothing. i also don't use any cosmetics. all the other scary ingredients in make-up are well researched and documented, yet women continue to use them.
and placentas, really? where is this happening? what country? placentas are wholesome and healthy. women eat them after giving birth. i find nothing scary about placentas. they even sell placenta shampoo. if you give birth at home, you get to keep the placenta, it's a beautiful thing.
as for the other data you provide, my feelings:
as for nothing going to waste, i have no problem with that. old tomatoes into ketchup, fine by me. the fact ketchup is dye and sugar, that's like being alarmed at what goes into hot dogs - junk. i'm always surprised by people that don't realize coleslaw is not normally bright green. juice story is old news and shouldn't be surprising to people.
obviously such practice would not be advertised, but please give me links to legitimate research data that can back up the above claim. i am googling and i can not find anything that says roadkill is used in cosmetics. something like that would be all over peta at least, and i can find nothing. i also don't use any cosmetics. all the other scary ingredients in make-up are well researched and documented, yet women continue to use them.
and placentas, really? where is this happening? what country? placentas are wholesome and healthy. women eat them after giving birth. i find nothing scary about placentas. they even sell placenta shampoo. if you give birth at home, you get to keep the placenta, it's a beautiful thing.
as for the other data you provide, my feelings:
as for nothing going to waste, i have no problem with that. old tomatoes into ketchup, fine by me. the fact ketchup is dye and sugar, that's like being alarmed at what goes into hot dogs - junk. i'm always surprised by people that don't realize coleslaw is not normally bright green. juice story is old news and shouldn't be surprising to people.
2010 Jun 2
further off topic, but some interesting and mostly legit sites for cosmetic information:
if you want to feel better about cosmetics for sale in canada:
www.cctfa.ca
if you want to feel worse:
www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/
health canada cosmetic hot list of banned ingredients (terrifying):
www.hc-sc.gc.ca
if you want to feel better about cosmetics for sale in canada:
www.cctfa.ca
if you want to feel worse:
www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/
health canada cosmetic hot list of banned ingredients (terrifying):
www.hc-sc.gc.ca
2010 Jun 2
i've read part of that book, but it wasn't really news to me.
the more i think about roadkill, the more i don't have a problem with it being used in products. better it be put to use - rendered down and all parts incorporated into something. i'd rather the orleans moose be put into someone's lipstick, than have illegal whale hunting continue.
and if zym is open to eating the roadkill, all the better for him and us.
the more i think about roadkill, the more i don't have a problem with it being used in products. better it be put to use - rendered down and all parts incorporated into something. i'd rather the orleans moose be put into someone's lipstick, than have illegal whale hunting continue.
and if zym is open to eating the roadkill, all the better for him and us.
2010 Jun 2
my CSA usually has a big bucket of "2nds" tomatoes that he lets people pick through. Most people do not like them, and where I am on the last stop for delivery I usually get to take the whole damned thing if I want it. Normally there is a lot of good eating on even rotten tomatoes. First think I made with my first big bucket - ketchup!
2010 Jun 3
hff: Yes,placenta is so valuable! I wanted to donate my placenta (Umbilical cord blood), because I heard it could be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders...but I couldn't do so 10 years ago in Japan:(
I have my own umbilical cord from 36 years ago. I also have my son's umbilical cord, we save cord as a keepsake, it is kinda Japanese tradition. Usually cord is in a little cedar box, it looks like dried up piece of salami...lol
Near rotten/very well riped tomatoes will make good ketchup!
I have my own umbilical cord from 36 years ago. I also have my son's umbilical cord, we save cord as a keepsake, it is kinda Japanese tradition. Usually cord is in a little cedar box, it looks like dried up piece of salami...lol
Near rotten/very well riped tomatoes will make good ketchup!
zymurgist
I was just coming home along the Parkway and saw a commotion around a Canada Goose that had just gotten smacked and was still squirming. If I hadn't been on the way to pick up the boys at school I'd have doubled back to see if I could claim it. I know how to pluck and dress a bird!
So, any more road kill stories out there? I've got another one but will save it til others chime in.