half_lap
Reged: 27/08/2008
Posts: 15
Loc: On the Blue Line
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Has anyone ever eaten Magpie? What does it taste like?
There's loads round our way and I'm thinking about shooting a few.
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 1135
Loc: slumped over the keyboard
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I was just thinking how dull and rather serious the Lounge had become and you've cheered me up! This is the kind of random inanity I come here for.
And in answer to your question, no idea. Pretty gamey I should imagine - all that roadkill.
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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger - Friedrich Nietzsche (German Hill Climb Champion and sub-19 man)
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 3653
Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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Strange post..even for here, I have no idea but it is a member of the crow family, It will be edible but how good it will be...brave person! I heard as a kid that blackbirds were good eating but you need about four and twenty to make a decent pie..and shooting them is illegal! Magpies are classed as vermin so the farmers will be most happy to let you blast away over winter..as for doing your Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall impression...I would stick to wood pigeon for now!
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tonybv9
Reged: 08/10/2007
Posts: 751
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I remember seeing Gordon Ramsay shooting and cooking rook. A bit like pigeon, apparently.
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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tastes like chicken
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MagnersCattlegridCon
Reged: 25/04/2008
Posts: 648
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just make sure it's dead before you put it on the plate, or the little bugger will fly off with your cutlery!!
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wuverley
Reged: 16/05/2008
Posts: 4046
Loc: Man of Kent
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tastes like chicken
Tastes like golden eagle, or is it swan?
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colnagodram
Reged: 06/04/2008
Posts: 769
Loc: Langholm, Dumfriesshire. 10 mi...
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Is there not a lot o' magpies over Tyne side area? 
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rover1971
Reged: 09/06/2008
Posts: 349
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
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You could try here:
http://www.rivercottage.net/EdibleProjects/
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hubbub
Reged: 22/10/2007
Posts: 813
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Re- Ferg's comment about blackbirds - the French make them into pate (where's the accent key on this damn board??). They sell jars of the stuff in Corsica, which might be why there's never any birdsong over there. 
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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The French also eat a type of bunting (can't remember the name) whole, bones and all. But then again the French eat anything that moves.
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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Here we go, I just found this link. Now tell me the French aren't disgusting
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=205341
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tonybv9
Reged: 08/10/2007
Posts: 751
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The French also eat a type of bunting (can't remember the name) whole, bones and all. But then again the French eat anything that moves.
I think you are talking about the Ortolan. A tiny bird, that is killed by drowning in brandy, then cooked in some poncified fashion an deaten whole.
I'm told there is no birdsong on Sicily either, because they shoot everything in sight - including eachother of course.
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 3653
Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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I'm told there is no birdsong on Sicily either, because they shoot everything in sight - including eachother of course.
Well if they are the same as Italians on the mainland then that will be right...don't give them guns. We had an Italian party pheasant shooting here once, they shot at an owl, a buzzard,they hit foxes, pheasants even when running, a black labrador,a plate glass window out of the big house, the side of a landrover, any songbird that flew by and because woodcock fly fast and low one of the beaters got hit as well, luckily at that range shotguns have very little penetrating power....They were never invited back!!! Absolutely mad..they always started each drive by yelling "Fire your guns!!!" in very bad english!!
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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jeepers! Just imagine the carnage if you got the Americans involved too!
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 3653
Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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Oh no the Americans are very safe...it's just in cities they go nuts! In the country they dress up like motorway workmen on night shift...they never shoot someone by accident...they know who they are shooting at!
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Dazzricles
Reged: 24/08/2008
Posts: 621
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So this isnt a thread about the 70`s kids tv program?....
Im I the only one that thought the presenter was a Brian May clone?...and isnt shooting ex presenters a bit harsh...let alone eating em?.
Am I on the right track?...lol
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goblin
Reged: 31/03/2007
Posts: 1389
Loc: down yur me anzum
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So this isnt a thread about the 70`s kids tv program?....
Im I the only one that thought the presenter was a Brian May clone?...and isnt shooting ex presenters a bit harsh...let alone eating em?.
Am I on the right track?...lol
Jenny Hanley was a bit of alright though, far better than who blue peter could offer 
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 3653
Loc: Sticks ,Scotlandshire
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Brian May clone is right...I bet you watched it Dazzricles...Susan Stranks bring back memories?????
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Dazzricles
Reged: 24/08/2008
Posts: 621
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Blimy!....thats a long time to carry a candle!..lol
Strangly enuff I can still remember "Aunty Jean" frome The Tinger and Tucker Club but she wernt "a bit of alright"!
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