We sort of have wild turkey. Almost impossible to get if you don't shoot it
yourself. Tho I did eat it once in the Guatemalan jungle. Delicious, but a
long way to go for a meal.
Makes me sound like a movie character: "Indiana Weiss and the Quest for the
Perfect Meal.
Driven close to extinction, the bird was protected and reintroduced in
places it had passed into history--it was the hunter's lobby did it. Now
there are millions of them, with man as the only predator. They were even
introduced into California, where they had never been before. And
everywhere they have become an ecological menace, like our enormous and
growing deer population.
Where's a wolf pack when you need it?
Mark
At 07:38 PM 11/28/2004, you wrote:
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>Not so easy to get pheasant, either, tho easier than mutton.
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>Both are under threat here too unfortunately, though in different ways.
>Mutton being too strong for many tastes, and not very cost effective for the
>farmer, lamb is the default, with wethers at farmers' markets. (I'm really
>speaking of the London area.) Pheasant, on the other hand, is becoming
>commoner but less tasty as birds are reared more intensively.
>
>But you chaps still have wild turkeys. What we call turkey is a ghastly
>creature invented by Bernard Manning, Bernard Wetherall or some such
>individual.
>
>CW
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