Who knows? It may have been the dumplings. Note that no men are named, but the paper made sure we know where they came from. This clip is from 1907. (via Buttermilk Junction)
Don't know of any avians being poisonous. The platypus is venomous though, so who knows, a evolutionary branch may have turned those 'flippers' into wings and became what you fellas call buzzards, and maybe the venomous claws became poisonous innards. More like the big fluffy bird had eaten a poisonous toad that was not poisonous to the bird, but was developed by the cloud guy to kill off Italians. Which I find upsetting, as I have, and love, my Italian car. I worked hard to be able to afford it, I could have bought a lesser vehicle earlier, but my thinking was 'work more and wait' and then I would always be happy by just looking out at it in the driveway, and overflowing with joy when I drove it.
I never knew that buzzards were poisonous, but I know their innards are very different from ours, because they have microbes and enzymes that turn decaying flesh into useful nutrients.
If they cooked the organs ("giblets"), and just boiled the bird, then it might not have been enough heat to kill (or break down) all the stuff that's safe in a buzzard, but not a human.
If they'd hot-roasted the muscle (so it got to the point of a bit of fat spattering - be the fat buzzard or barding), I'd bet the muscle would be safe to eat, but I'd bet $20 against $10, and not my life! :-) I don't know if you could make the innards safe to eat in a camping situation - I'd clean the f out of that bird, and the s, the h, and never mind, before I'd even consider eating it. See, there's some meat (sometimes slandered as "pink slime") that requires treatment with anhydrous ammonia, to kill all the toxic microbes in it, and that comes from a *cow* that eats *grass*, not a bird that eats carrion.
Man. The other thing that could be dangerous? Prions! Remember, they can occur in beef, mad cow disease? So that's another reason to avoid buzzard. So you'd want to make sure you get all the brains out of it, at which point, you've got zombie attractant all around!
One time Juanita and I were driving and there was a torpid buzzard in the middle of the road. I would've just driven around it and that would be that, but Juanita said we had to save it, so we got it into a box, put the box back in the car, and drove with all the windows down because it /stank to high heaven/. The animal rescue lady we knew (Feather, her real name) took it in, said thank you, and that was that. But the loud smell of a buzzard in a box in a car-- I had no idea anything could smell that awful. Worse than shit or vomit or burning plastic or anything. The idea of someone cooking and eating one is almost beyond belief.
Since buzzards are scavengers, it's possible it ate a poisoned rat or even poisoned meat left out deliberately by farmers to kill predators. Tactics like this are responsible for the killing of many kites (the bird) in Europe, even though they're a very minor menace to farm animals.
But for the timing, there might have been Kentucky Fried Buzzard.
ReplyDeleteOr even 'Vulture Boys'
DeleteThat may be only relevant where I am as we used to have Eagle Boys pizza shops.
Don't know of any avians being poisonous.
ReplyDeleteThe platypus is venomous though, so who knows, a evolutionary branch may have turned those 'flippers' into wings and became what you fellas call buzzards, and maybe the venomous claws became poisonous innards.
More like the big fluffy bird had eaten a poisonous toad that was not poisonous to the bird, but was developed by the cloud guy to kill off Italians.
Which I find upsetting, as I have, and love, my Italian car.
I worked hard to be able to afford it, I could have bought a lesser vehicle earlier, but my thinking was 'work more and wait' and then I would always be happy by just looking out at it in the driveway, and overflowing with joy when I drove it.
I never knew that buzzards were poisonous, but I know their innards are very different from ours, because they have microbes and enzymes that turn decaying flesh into useful nutrients.
ReplyDeleteIf they cooked the organs ("giblets"), and just boiled the bird, then it might not have been enough heat to kill (or break down) all the stuff that's safe in a buzzard, but not a human.
If they'd hot-roasted the muscle (so it got to the point of a bit of fat spattering - be the fat buzzard or barding), I'd bet the muscle would be safe to eat, but I'd bet $20 against $10, and not my life! :-) I don't know if you could make the innards safe to eat in a camping situation - I'd clean the f out of that bird, and the s, the h, and never mind, before I'd even consider eating it. See, there's some meat (sometimes slandered as "pink slime") that requires treatment with anhydrous ammonia, to kill all the toxic microbes in it, and that comes from a *cow* that eats *grass*, not a bird that eats carrion.
Man. The other thing that could be dangerous? Prions! Remember, they can occur in beef, mad cow disease? So that's another reason to avoid buzzard. So you'd want to make sure you get all the brains out of it, at which point, you've got zombie attractant all around!
YOU CAN'T WIN!!!
One time Juanita and I were driving and there was a torpid buzzard in the middle of the road. I would've just driven around it and that would be that, but Juanita said we had to save it, so we got it into a box, put the box back in the car, and drove with all the windows down because it /stank to high heaven/. The animal rescue lady we knew (Feather, her real name) took it in, said thank you, and that was that. But the loud smell of a buzzard in a box in a car-- I had no idea anything could smell that awful. Worse than shit or vomit or burning plastic or anything. The idea of someone cooking and eating one is almost beyond belief.
ReplyDeleteSince buzzards are scavengers, it's possible it ate a poisoned rat or even poisoned meat left out deliberately by farmers to kill predators. Tactics like this are responsible for the killing of many kites (the bird) in Europe, even though they're a very minor menace to farm animals.
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