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« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2006, 11:29 »
Hugh fearnly ate woodlice in his program cook on the wild side, the idea was that they are a land based prawny type thing,  ( he's my hero). :oops:

I saw a program about marine training, and worm casserole was one of the things they had to make and eat :shock:
 
The british marines can eat all animals appart from rats, they arn't alloud to eat them because of the possibility of disease, but they can eat any thing else.

Has anyone eaten winkles or welks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em

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« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2006, 14:02 »
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Has anyone eaten winkles or whelks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em
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Here in Scotland, what I grew up calling winkles in Norfolk are called whelks, whereas what I would have called whelks are dog whelks. Have gone picking them across the river at Tayport. You sometimes get people selling them round the pubs in bags. And the Scottish prawn trawler boats don't catch prawns, they catch langoustines.

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« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2006, 11:58 »
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Has anyone eaten winkles or whelks, they are just sea snails, MMMMMM, I love em
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Here in Scotland, what I grew up calling winkles in Norfolk are called whelks, whereas what I would have called whelks are dog whelks. Have gone picking them across the river at Tayport. You sometimes get people selling them round the pubs in bags. And the Scottish prawn trawler boats don't catch prawns, they catch langoustines.


I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet. Worry about polluted water though but it looked ok at the time and we weren't ill.

I hadn't seen that Hugh Fernley thing where he eats woodlice. Sounds horrid. It was Ray Mears who I saw eat ant larve and I promise it looked very good. He made his sound recordist try some and he looked like he enjoyed it too.

Oh lets not forget the beetles in Indiana Jones. Man I would not fancy that.
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« Reply #18 on: July 01, 2006, 11:05 »
If Ray Mears told me to eat something,    ( I Would).

Would you argue with Ray ?

He would probarbly kill you and eat you as well, he would cook you in some wierd and wonderful way.  :lol:  :lol:

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« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2006, 23:08 »
i have liked all the sugestions so far, especially ant larvea. i will eat anything me so long as it's had it's bum wiped.

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« Reply #20 on: August 14, 2006, 10:01 »
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I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet.


This month's Field says that you must not collect mussels that are less than two inches long.

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« Reply #21 on: August 14, 2006, 11:28 »
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I collected my own mussels from a beach in cornwall once, they were good. very small but very sweet.


This month's Field says that you must not collect mussels that are less than two inches long.


Thats terrible. :( I feel guilty now and wont do it again.

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« Reply #22 on: August 14, 2006, 14:31 »
I think Ray would probably make a birch bark canoe...
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« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2006, 18:16 »
Worms? easy -

collect them in a container they cant get out of, with NO vegatable matter, for a few days to allow them to 'clear out', then ...


dry them, preferably on a hot flat stone from the fire (dont use porous stone it'l explose in the fire if its wet). Once dried out, grind them up.

Worms are not much use as a main food. Use the dried worms as a thickener, rather like cornflour, in soups and sauces.

I have eaten them like this, but unfortunately another time we didnt have any sauce ingredients to go with the squirrel.

There is really very little on this planet that cant be eaten (unless its mineral). What we generally eat is what is easiest, tastiest and most abundent. The important thing is to make sure what you eat wont make you ill. A series of simple tests carried out over a few hours can work that out.


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« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2006, 16:59 »
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(incidentally, it was 'squirel au van')


Was it good? Was it anything like rabbit?

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« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2006, 21:52 »
Hmmm, now i come to think about it, it was a bit mediochre (is that how you spell it?), at the time it tasted absolutely fantastic. Strangely, it was a bit like chicken! Really i'd say a bit more rabbity though.

It was one of those moments of necessity. We had just been turfed off the back of a 4 tonne truck somewhere near Tal-y-bont, at the start of a survival exercise. We had no food or supplies other than a survival kit, enough to get a fire going (that was the idea of course, not much of a survival course if we could take tins of beans and a bottle of pinot grigio)

As we got off the truck, i spotted something a bit fresh looking under it. The daft driver had mowed this poor squirrel down. Well, fresh meat...

If i'd got spotted i'd have failed the course before i even got to the start line!


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« Reply #26 on: August 27, 2006, 12:31 »
Couldn't you have just visited the pub at Tal-y-bont to refuel or is this strictly not allowed?

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« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2006, 21:33 »
Definately not allowed. Unless i wanted to end up at a lower rank than i started!

The pub was visited after the exercise though!

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« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2006, 21:02 »
Eating slugs is probably a bad idea, there have been cases of slug munchers contracting meningitis:

Wikipedia Slugs Entry

Direct link to article:

Man contracts meningitis from eating slugs
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« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2006, 23:30 »
Interesting. I heard of this with people eating Giant African Land Snails as it's a concern for those people who keep G.A.L.S.s as pets. Most people don't eat their pets though  :lol:

Ah and it's only a concern if you don't cook them well which I thought I had read similar about G.A.L.S.s
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