Swans

OnTheCounter

Seeing as we eat chicken, turkey and especially duck why don't we eat swan?

They look tasty and it would only take one good shot with a large rock and you could set up a barbacue at the local pitch and charge a tenner per burger.

"We need to think outside the box and do whatever it takes to succeed and if that means getting up before you go to bed thats what you have to do"
Bill Cullen

im invisible

dey tuk errr ....

EoghanIRL

The polish eat their heads off

Lapin

The Queen won't let us eat them.

MadsL

Mamy jeść łabędzie*






*We do eat swans

Irish_wolf

Cause swans are wild vicious crazy creatures. You'd need to hunt them and they're faster than they look.

You could try domesticating them but I doubt it would work. I'm sure you could given enough time, but really you dont want to be farming stuff can/will attack you or easily fly away.

EoghanIRL

MadsL wrote: »

Mamy jeść łabędzie*






[SIZE="1"]*We do eat swans[/SIZE]

:P it was from the urban dictionary thread

Gummy Panda

But they might be the children of lir

stimpson

Not much fat on a swan. Very lean meat so not the tastiest.


Don't ask me how I know.

OnTheCounter

Irish_wolf wrote: »

Cause swans are wild vicious crazy creatures. You'd need to hunt them and they're faster than they look.

You could try domesticating them but I doubt it would work. I'm sure you could given enough time, but really you dont want to be farming stuff can/will attack you or easily fly away.

its true they will never be mass farmed but you would think a small number of places in ireland would offer it.

Strangest thing i have ever seen on an irish menu is crocodile. Would imagine its horrible and extremely tough and I would fancy my chances better when trying to capture a swan.

Jen Pigs Fly

I don't see what people love about them, all I see is a big, white duck

keith16

Gummy Panda wrote: »

But they might be the children of lir

mmm....Fionnuala.

OneArt

Horrible, evil, monstrous creatures. They shouldn't be eaten, they should be exterminated.

Where's a Dalek when you need it?

listermint

Gummy Panda wrote: »

But they might be the children of lir

WINS!

3ndahalfof6

plucking time.

MadsL

Legal to hunt (and eat) in four US States.

Whatsisname

Because Swans are terrifying. *shudders*

3ndahalfof6

endangered and endearing, and unlike humans they pick a partner and stick with them till the bitter end, what was the question.

Fr_Dougal

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

endangered and endearing, and unlike humans they pick a partner and stick with them till the bitter end, what was the question.

Proven to be false.

3ndahalfof6

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Proven to be false.

humans, sure they know it all, have you ever spent time talking to a swan,(to hear their side of it) or is it you believe everything you read.

Larianne

Posh people eat goose at Christmas, right? Would that not be similar to swan? (I'm poor so I can only guess).

Simi

MadsL wrote: »

Legal to hunt (and eat) in four US States.

Why are they illegal to hunt in the other 46 just out of interest? Is it just a remnant of ye old laws or is there a specific reason?

I bet they taste awful tbh.

oppenheimer1

Its a cultural thing, possibly a hangover from our ancient tales and the more recent royal prerogative (that killing them was a treasonable offence).

Its much the same as why we don't eat horse here.

3ndahalfof6

Larianne wrote: »

Posh people eat goose at Christmas, right? Would that not be similar to swan? (I'm poor so I can only guess).

yep it is the same bird, they change their look at certain times of the year, (a protection thing I think) I am poor to.

OneArt

Larianne wrote: »

Posh people eat goose at Christmas, right? Would that not be similar to swan? (I'm poor so I can only guess).

If you're poor why aren't you underground right now turning the big wheels?

dodderangler

Was there not a Thread on this a while ago
I'd love to try it
id love a big leg off a swan With KFC gravy
Kentucky fried swan
That's what il do

Cork boy 55

Attempted swan stealing in Galway city last sabbath (via TheJournal.ie)

http://jrnl.ie/662047



The Bewick Swan is in decline since 2004

What happened in 2004?

http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/Default.aspx?tabid=150

refusetolose

ah leave it out

Cork boy 55

poster nodin to "racist" thread please 5,4,3 ....

Hippies!

Swan stuffed with bunny rabbits and a side dish of puppy legs would be delish I'd say.

Peregrine

I can't eat any meat other than chicken, beef or pork. I feel guilty for eating it but I'm used to eating them now..I can't imagine eating some other animal

Chuck Stone

MadsL wrote: »

Legal to hunt (and eat) in four US States.

That shouldn't be allowed to be called 'hunting'.

'cunting' would be more accurate.

diddley

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I can't eat any meat other than chicken, beef or pork. I feel guilty for eating it but I'm used to eating them now..I can't imagine eating some other animal

same here, I tried duck once and immediately regretted it after it went down.

3rdDegree

Can't believe no one has posted "I ordered a chicken leg in a Chinese restaurant and got suspicious so I brought it to my local vet who had it analysed and found out it was a swan's leg!"

Ottway

I ordered a chicken leg in a Chinese restaurant and got suspicious so I brought it to my local vet who had it analysed and found out it was a swan's leg!

MadsL

Chuck Stone wrote: »

That shouldn't be allowed to be called 'hunting'.

'cunting' would be more accurate.

Err. Why? Because they are pretty, or belong to the Queen?

Simi wrote: »

Why are they illegal to hunt in the other 46 just out of interest? Is it just a remnant of ye old laws or is there a specific reason?

I bet they taste awful tbh.

I guess to do with population sizes, pheasant hunting season in New Mexico is exactly one day long. Bad day be a pheasant

I bet I could make them taste good.

MadsL

Ottway wrote: »

I ordered a chicken leg in a Chinese restaurant and got suspicious so I brought it to my local vet who had it analysed and found out it was a swan's leg!

*cough* ulshit!

asherbassad

OnTheCounter wrote: »

Seeing as we eat chicken, turkey and especially duck why don't we eat swan?

They look tasty and it would only take one good shot with a large rock and you could set up a barbacue at the local pitch and charge a tenner per burger.

"We need to think outside the box and do whatever it takes to succeed and if that means getting up before you go to bed thats what you have to do"
Bill Cullen

Hell of a lot more pigeons around than swans. I've never seen a bird more prolific than them or seagulls. Don't eat any of them either do we?

joydivision

Its cause their so ugly when their ducklings ugh whod wanna eat that .

kowloon

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

I don't see what people love about them, all I see is a big, white duck

A big white duck with a mean streak a mile wide. Ireland doesn't possess the weaponry to declare war on the swans.

MadsL wrote: »

*cough* ulshit!

No, it's totally true,it happened to a guy who once worked with a guy who's friends with Dave down the pub. Seriously.

BlaasForRafa

Hippies! wrote: »

Swan stuffed with bunny rabbits and a side dish of puppy legs would be delish I'd say.

You forgot the veal reared in a crate ffs! Thats the tastiest bit, next to the Fois Gras.

kylith

Stephen Fry says that swan tastes foul, and that's a good enough reason for me. Apparently any swan that's eaten is young, and is fed a special diet to stop its meat tasting horrible.

Larianne

kylith wrote: »

Stephen Fry says that swan tastes foul, and that's a good enough reason for me. Apparently any swan that's eaten is young, and is fed a special diet to stop its meat tasting horrible.

Foul or fowl?

The Cool

All swans in the UK belong to the Queen and you need a licence / permission to kill one. She's the only one allowed to eat swan, apparently. Dunno about here.

Beefy78

OnTheCounter wrote: »

Strangest thing i have ever seen on an irish menu is crocodile. Would imagine its horrible and extremely tough and I would fancy my chances better when trying to capture a swan.

Croc meat is alright. Nothing special though. Swans are vicious creatures and apparently don't taste very good anyway.

I saw a big bastard of a gull down by the Liffey a few days ago and it occurred to me then that there's a lot of meat on them and so I'd assume that someone must have found out what they taste like. But then gulls will eat anything so I guess you'd be taking your chances with one of them. I once saw one devour most of a cooked breakfast, including a metal fork.

gutenberg

The Cool wrote: »

All swans in the UK belong to the Queen and you need a licence / permission to kill one. She's the only one allowed to eat swan, apparently. Dunno about here.

The Royal Family, and also the Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge are allowed to eat swan (unmarked mute swans, more specifically). I don't think St John's currently exercises this right, plus I think they're only allowed it one day of the year or something - possibly the feast day of St John the Evangelist, who is the College's namesake.

And I have also heard that swan tastes horrible, so maybe we're better off.

kingtiger

Lapin wrote: »

The Queen won't let us eat them.

which Queen would that be

kowloon

kingtiger wrote: »

which Queen would that be

The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India.

sbsquarepants

OnTheCounter wrote: »

its true they will never be mass farmed but you would think a small number of places in ireland would offer it.

Strangest thing i have ever seen on an irish menu is crocodile. Would imagine its horrible and extremely tough and I would fancy my chances better when trying to capture a swan.

I've eaten crocodile - it's quite nice, wasn't tough at all.
I wouldn't eat a swan though, it's just wrong!!

pickarooney

asherbassad wrote: »

Hell of a lot more pigeons around than swans. I've never seen a bird more prolific than them or seagulls. Don't eat any of them either do we?

Pigeon's quite nice. You're missing out.

Beefy78

Yeah, it's not that hard to find places selling pigeon meat. It's alright.