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live the dream

Joined: 04 Apr 2005
Posts: 77
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 1:38 pm Post subject: mice for dinner?
https://www.bridgewater.edu/~mtembo/mbeba.html look at the pics aswell. wish my neighbours cat was as effective as them.

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 1:42 pm Post subject:
They look a real tweet.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hmmm. It was kapenta that was mainly eaten with nschima on the copperbelt...

There is something particularly Zambian about this sentence from the linked page:
"Hunting for mice has serious, and in some cases, life threatening dangers."

Now - anyone near Tring?
What about an article on stalking Glis Glis?
And its cuisine?
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/269.shtml

Seemingly, it is protected, which, IMHO bizarrely means you can't *trap* it, but you *can* shoot it...

www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/vertebrates/glisglis.htm

live the dream

Joined: 04 Apr 2005
Posts: 77
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 6:21 pm Post subject:
'The cooking of the mice is very simple. The mice are gutted, boiled in plain water for about half an hour and salted. They are then fire dried until they are nearly bone dry.' - sounds tasty

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 7:57 pm Post subject:
I like mine with ash potato and boiled cabbage. Bubble and squeak, squeak, squeak....

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 05 8:01 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I like mine with ash potato and boiled cabbage. Bubble and squeak, squeak, squeak....

I'm starving now

Tittch

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 1768
Location: Chichester

Posted: Sat Feb 18, 06 5:45 pm Post subject:
I had a phone call from a friend this morning complaining about mice. Shall I phone her back and give a few receipes?? I'll eat most things so I might give mouse a try sometime..

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