How Do You Like Your Roadkill Prepared?

wildroots is a great place to live and learn.. possum and raccoon are great if boiled for nearly an hour then either made into stew or thrown on a grill over an open fire..

This is a great article Bob! I have quite a few roadkill stories but never thought about writing an article on it. I like it because so many are not aware of the waste that could be utilized, always thinking about how to recycle here. Glad you shared your knowledge for everyone. Thanks. C.S.

Where did you ever learn your wild and gamey culinary skills? Funny hub!

Love moose and bear, the few time I've had venison, it was quite gamey tasting. Goat's good.

I hate the idea of eating roadkill because, well - it's roadkill! Really like that it doesn't go to waste, though I guess nothing in nature does. Very practical...and fits nicely in your series of extreme food foraging.

Bob, congrats on an eye-catching yet ewwwwww! title. Couldn't help but come and see what you'd done. Great hub!

Never eaten roadkill that I know of, but I've eaten wild boar (tough), squirrel, pigeon, deer, and snake. Have no idea how they were killed, but they didn't taste too bad. I turned down possum and raccoon.

Being a country girl, raised by a country girl and farm boy, I've eaten lots of stuff nobody would believe.

Have you ever hate chitterlings? Not bad tasting if you can get past the smell.

Thanks for the WildRoots link. :)

A good friend of mine lives on the border of a major urban park, which in recent years has become over-populated with deer.  My friend is the "go-to" person for the park police when a deer is hit by a car, which happens often.  My friend will put the deer out of its misery if it is alive, take it home, and butcher it.  If the deer is not alive, but still warm, he will take that deer as well.  No chances taken there with "sell-by" dates. The meat goes to families who need it.

Although witnessing roadkill is never a happy event, I am glad to say that in this major urban area, big game roadkill is available, and it is responsibly used.  And that is a good thing.

Interestingly, a mutual friend who is a vegetarian is always happy to get fresh meat from our friend, for the reasons you mentioned.

A few years back when my Godmother came for a visit to Canada from Hungary she made my dad stop at the side of the road so she could snip off the tail off fresh squirrels... My Dad humored his sister just because she was the elder. When we got home my aunt got right to work and thought me how to make the best paintbrushes ever... I can honestly say that those were the best watercolor brushes I've ever used.

Just another angle to roadkill. I just loved the hub. regards Zsuzsy

When in a shoe store, awhile back, I saw a pair of shoes that were just right.  I commented to the sales lady that I would buy them except that the tops were 100% leather.  I explained that I was opposed to the organized killing of animals merely to make shoes for humans.

Not to be concerned.  The sales lady explained that their shoe factory was in the north woods and road kill on nearby highways provided the shoe factory with more than enough materials to use in making 100% leather uppers.  With that assurance, I was compelled to purchase the shoes (and at a very good price, I might add).

I was sorry to hear that the shoe factory went bust, possibly because of an decline of auto traffic.  As you know, gasoline prices have really increased. However, the factory management implemented a great idea during the times that their supply was maintained.

Ground hog, or whistle pig as we call them, is best baked with a dry BBQ rub. Bake some potatoes with it and it is a delicious and very satisfying meal.

Now Bob, everyone knows possum is best baked with sweet potatoes. It is an awesome dish. ;)

You have sold me! Now I am really on the outlook for road kills except of course possums and armadillos

Bob, where I live marsupial road kill is an everyday thing. Although the lsmaller ones don't often damage your car, and are probably not much more than a mouthful, there can be so many strewn along the road I often wonder how their species survive. But I can see the logic in eating it fresh! Thanks for an interesting hub.

I don't think roadkill will every be a regular feature on my dining table, especially since the available stock is generally waaayyy past it's "sell by" date.

But retrieving and using fresh kills somehow does seem more respectful than leaving them out on the (unnatural) asphalt for further squashing.

I generally like my roadkill prepared with jacklope stew leftovers. It is very tasty you know.

We don't generally have exotic sounding roadkill in the UK, generally it's just the odd bunny, pheasant or badger. Very rarely in the forests, you might hit a deer, but I did hear of a colleague of my husbands who hit a sheep once, and butchered it in the back of his work van. Nice hub Bob, and as a vegetarian myself, I can see the justification for eating road kill.

my uncle and his friends came home one day with dear meat[this was about 20 years a go]they prepared a meal for the family and we devoured it.they had this wild story about how they hunted down the deer.come to find out they hit the deer on the way home from a fishing trip.

I know - I was just kidding! Actually I once had a deer handed to me after another driver hit it and didn't want it. In Illinois you just need to inform the proper authorities and they let you keep it. I brain-tanned the hide and made a lot of venison sausages, which I absolutely love! I made some "Anglo-saxon" runes of the knuckles and sold them. You can use just about everything on road kill if you have a mind to!

And for my vegetarian friends - Remember - even dolphins are meat-eaters!

I had a t-shirt from the Road Kill Cafe, which unfortunately due to the fact that I got fat eating road kill, I can no longer put on! LOL!!!

Actually, in our reenactments often times someone will bring road kill for the stew. Only once did we forbid it, when the guy told us he had driven about 10 hours in the hot summer with this thing left in the back seat of his car.

When he opened the door the flies came out think and heavy, so we decided it was better not to use the dead thing (we could not identify it, and neither could he) that he wanted to offer up for our primitive feast.

I went to The Roadkill Cafe about 6 years ago. I'm not sure if they are still around. The food was great and they gave the impression it was roadkill with all of the cool names of the different dishes. But, since it was a chain restaurant I'm guess it wasn't really roadkill. Part of the themes was that they are really rude to their customers and would squirt people with squirt guns if they got out of their chair. It was fun but you had to be prepared for the atmosphere. I agree we shouldn't waste food. But, you also need to make sure you don't end up roadkill trying to get it out of the road.

The funny thing is that, if someone hits a cow, it's not even a stretch to imagine that the meat will still be used (at the very least for pet food), but when people think about anything else they get all squeamish. I understand that moose in particular is treated in this way in Alaska to the point where there's almost a built in system in place to report the animal's having been struck and commence the recovery and "harvesting" if you will.

Another awesome hub, Bob. You have a fantastic niche here on HP and you fill it well. /salute.