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Owl curry or badger stew?
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Dec 2011 - by camdenant
A man from Bournemouth has lived for the last 30 years on a diet of roadkill, avoiding buying meat from the supermarket.
Jonathon McGowan, a 44-year-old taxidermist, never kills the animals himself but eats only what he finds by the side of the road or out in the local countryside. He has eaten everything from hedgehogs to mice to crows to fox.
He told the Daily Mail that he first got a taste for roadkill at the age of 14 when he cooked a dead adder he had found.
“The adder didn't actually taste very nice - a bit like bacon rind. But it had piqued my curiosity and I wondered what else I could eat and what it would taste like.”
McGowan often cooks for friends, with his owl curry and rat stir fries very popular – frying the owl with vegetables, sultanas, coconut, cumin and turmeric.
He lists fox as one of his favourite meats and says rats are actually quiet delicious – tasting a little like pork. He says mice taste weird, with a bitter flavour, and he avoids moles, “they are horrible and have a rancid taste.”
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