Anybody ever eaten Quail?

[El Supremo]

I did once at the fancy Buckhorn Exchange Restaurant in Denver. It wasn't as bad as I thought. Certainly not as good as turkey. However one little quail would never be able to be "supersized" at Burger King. They are small, gamy and full of bones (and sometimes buckshot).

In a round-about manner I'm trying to figure out why 'Deadeye Dick' even wants to go Quail hunting. Quail and other prairie semi-flightless birds are far more common in the wild in my neck-of-the-woods (western Kansas and eastern Colorado) than in far south Texas. I really think that what he was shooting at were 'farm raised'.

I don't like hunting very much. But I really don't like people who hunt captive animals.

If this is true, it speaks a great truth as to the personal beliefs of our real President. Cheney doesn't give a damn about life.

[Caoimhe]

1. No

had goose last year and it was way darker than I'd imagined. That, chicken and turkey are the only birds I've tasted the meat of.

I'd rather shoot them with my camera than eat them.

[madokie]

11. My dream is to become a wild turkey hunter, not with a gun, only a camera

to kill for sport is wrong, to kill to eat, well.

[Caoimhe]

27. either way

it's either alive forever on film or gone forever digesting in the nether regions of my gut. I know what i prefer.

[RB TexLa]

42. If you ever get to eat a wild turkey you'll know

Nothing in your local grocery store compares to it.

[aikoaiko]

48. mmmm lots of dark meat!!!!!

use those breast muscles for flight and no more white meat.

[TomInTib]

2. They weren't "hunting", they were "shooting...

and isn't the Buckhorn Exchange an amazing place?

Carnivore Central.

on edit:
I have eaten a lot of quail.

[El Supremo]

17. Their Elk is 'to-die-for'

They have been there for about a hundred years. I don't care if it is farm raised. At least it is eaten.

[TomInTib]

3. Hey, El Supremo, read this for some depressing enlightenment..

http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/wayne_pacelle_the_animal_advocate/cheneys_canned_kill_and_other_hunting_excesses_of_the_bush_administration.html

[El Supremo]

10. I know all about that story and the HSUS

They are nothing but a front for the Vegetarian nuts at PETA.

[flvegan]

21. Tell you what, El Burrito

I'm one of those vegetarian (actually, vegan) "nuts" at PETA, so why don't you expound on your hatred here, mmmkay?

Bring it.

[El Supremo]

25. We would have to go to the Religion/Theology forum.

But I respect your beliefs. They just ain't mine.

[flvegan]

26. NO, actually

YOU suggested that folks like me were nuts. Has nothing to do with religion.

So...bring it. Don't run away...c'mon...you signed this check, now cash it.

[El Supremo]

28. OK. You are as bad as Fred Phelps

You are propagandists who care nothing about other peoples' views. Animals were placed on earth for humans' use and protection.

[flvegan]

33. That's it?

That's all you have?

You draw funny conclusions. Hey, you should've called me Hitler. At least then we'd have Godwin's Rule to invoke and have a chuckle over.

You state opinion as if it were fact and fail to back it up.

Bye, poster.

[LeftyMom]

36. Pick one.

We can protect animals or torture, kill and eat them. It doesn't work both ways.

[flvegan]

44. I'm crushed.

I mean, really, THAT was it.

*kicks pebbles, shoves hands in pockets*

Guess I'll go home now. Nobody ever wants to play with me.

[LeftyMom]

45. Well *I* do.

But you knew that.

LMK if you find somebody who'll play. :)

[flvegan]

54. Eh, cowards

post and run. Whatever. I'll let you know otherwise.

[LeftyMom]

56. Thanks Fred.

:rofl:

[NMMNG]

52. Interesting

People who call for the end of killing and exploitation of animals are the same as a man who calls for the killing and exploitation of gays and lesbians.


Someone explain the logic of that because I don't get it. :crazy:

[REP]

67. Worst. Defense. EVER.

I'm a meat-eater, and I find this to be the lamest argument I have ever come across against the Humane Society of the United States (with whom I agree) or PeTA (with whom I have some disagreements). Human beings are animals (unless you'd like to argue that you're vegetable or mineral); are we to use eachother for food and protection?

Bonus points for both ad hominem and straw man argument, though.

[Left Is Write]

69. But you respect his beliefs.

Right.

You can't "respect his beliefs" in one breath and compare him to Fred Phelps in another.

[NMMNG]

50. Vegetarianism/Veganism

While sometimes taken up as part of one's religion, are not a religious matter. They are, however, frequently an ethical matter. The people who choose such lifestyles simply believe it is wrong to kill and/or otherwise exploit animals for their food, wardrobes and other needs.

If you respected such beliefs you wouldn't be tossing out crude names for people who ascribe to them.

[flvegan]

53. You and your logic

You're likely to get a smack-bottom for that type of thinking, eh?

[NMMNG]

61. Wouldn't be the first time

Here's the target at any rate.

[havocmom]

4. There is a really good joke lurking in that question

but I'm gonna pass

[henslee]

5. I'd like to know w Richard Bruce Cheney's parent's were like. I have a

feeling there is some glaringly obvious reason why Dick is.... Dick.

[MercutioATC]

6. It's a "Sportsman" thing.

Apparently, it's satisfying to brag about shooting a small, nearly flightless, domestic bird.

Some people get off on that.

:shrug:

[AGKISTRODON]

12. "Nearly flightless, domestic bird"?

Who told you that?B-)

[MercutioATC]

13. Farm-raised quail? Are you kidding?

They're almost as bad as farm-raised pheasant.

One or two (pheasants) occasionally wander from a place near my parents' house. I have to shoo them out of the driveway so I don't run them over. I could "hunt" them with a brick.

[tenshi816]

65. I have the same thing happen frequently.

Pheasants wander into our yard from the moor and just settle down for a little nap, or they peck around in the grass. They don't seem frightened by anything, not even my border collie, and these are wild pheasants, not farm-raised.

Sometimes when I'm driving my kids into town for school, I have to stop the car and get out to shoo them out of the road, like you do in the driveway.

The near-tame pheasants and quail Cheney "hunts" might as well be stuffed toys for all the challenge they provide as a target. He'd have a harder time playing a video game.

[tabasco]

43. You don't know Cheney "hunts" disabled birds.

This is common knowledge.

http://tinyurl.com/648ee

Who told you he was a real hunter? :rofl:

[Lorien]

60. Canned hunts are barbaric as hell, and only really appeal

to those individuals who have Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopaths, a-la Hannibal Lecter). More specifically it is associated with the Aggressive Sociopaths, who derive strong, yet non perverse gratification from harming others...In their spare time, they like to hunt or occasionally do sadistic things like find stray dogs and cut them up. http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/428/428lect16.htm

Canned hunting facilities should be shuttered, and the people who "enjoyed" them need to be medicated.

[Richard Steele]

22. No, it's a 'killing' thing. SPORTSMEN do not shoot tame birds for fun.

Cheney does NOT eat the animals he shoots,
nor does he seek the "sport" of actually HUNTING
animals which are difficult to bring down.

When Cheney goes 'hunting', he prefers to be driven to a spot
where he can stand still while tame, cage-raised animals
are released in front of him so he can kill them for fun.
At least once, he shot 70 in a single outing.

The only reason he kills tame birds with a shotgun
is because it is more 'socially acceptable' than killing
blind kittens with a club.
The skill required is about the same.

CHENEY is not a 'hunter', he's just a rich asshole
who enjoys killing small, helpless animals.
LOTS of small, helpless animals.

I come from a long line of "hunters and Sportsmen", and I can
assure you that people like Cheney are considered to be
a lower life form by REAL hunters.

[MercutioATC]

34. I meant no offense to hunters.

I have absolutely no gripe with hunting, in general.


...that's why I put "Sportsmen" in qoutes. Cheney doesn't seem (in my limited experience) to be a sportsman to me.

[tenshi816]

66. If we lived in the 19th century,

Cheney would be one of those rich bastards who used to shoot buffalo from the windows of a train for "sport".

[LittleClarkie]

7. It is said that he's gone on trips where the birds were released right

in front of him, like freakin' skeets, and that he shot hundreds of them. I don't think the idea was to eat the buggers. Wasteful.

[Lefty48197]

15. Here's a link that confirms Cheney shot pheasants released from pens

http://www.kdka.com/local/local_story_344154903.html

"Five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants"

[stopbush]

8. I've had them in France...quite good.

But truth be told, they coulda put a piece of shit in the sauce
that surrounded the quail and it would have been great.

Nothing like a good sauce.

[lonestarnot]

9. No, but when I was an itty bitty kid, I accidentally turned the oven up on

some that my granny was trying to keep warm in the oven and they sort of got baked. Man did I ever feel badly! Poor little things were so cute.

[DenaliDemocrat]

14. I guess it is what you like

I find turkey dry and boring.

I like quail, especially smoked.

[Lexingtonian]

16. Not yet.

But I've had my share of crow.... :D

[Old and In the Way]

18. He likes to kill things

lots of things.

[Anywho6]

19. Tastes like chicken n/t

[bmbmd]

20. My favorite gamebird.

Delicate, white meat-very tasty. I've eaten a ton of it.

[El Supremo]

23. Good...

Did you ever shoot any and not eat them?

[karlrschneider]

24. Sure, many times. Humans eat just about every kind of bird that exists.

I never really cared all that much for turkey. I think quail are about as tasty as anything I can think of, and I'm a big fried chicken fan.

I knew a guy who I thought was a hunter but found out he just liked killing things after a short while. He killed 50 ducks one morning and threw them in a ditch. My SO and I happened on the scene and we picked them up and spent half a day cleaning & freezing them. One think I can't stand is some asshole who just wants to kill animals with no intention of utilizing them for food.

[Atman]

29. Marilyn has

But then she married him, and hasn't since.

[El Supremo]

31. Har!

[Raine]

64. Hehehe

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Neil Lisst]

30. quail tastes a little like golden eagle, a little like spotted owl

Definitely gamey.

[Justice Is Comin]

32. Picture Bin Laden as a quail

and there you have your farm raised quail shoot.

He drives up to them with his limo, the secret service finds a couple hobbling around, sprays them with mace and Cheney blasts em.

I was raised on a farm. Game birds like that raised in the wild, such as partridge, were quick as hell and tasted quite good.

[kayice]

35. Yes, it is okay. There is not much quail left in east central Kansas.

[klook]

37. Yep, and I'm in no hurry to eat them again

My grandfather was a big hunter. He and my grandmother always had quail, venison, and turkey in the freezer. I thought quail was too dry and weird-tasting. But as a kid I had a pretty unadventurous palate. Who's to say I wouldn't like it now?

[nemo137]

63. Done right, it's wonderful.

There's a place in Chicago, of all places, that does a brillaint marinated quail. My friends and I would get it when we went in in high school.

[alphafemale]

38. Anything like Cornish Game Hen?

That I've had...

But you can get that at the supermarket.

[AngryAmish]

39. A few times

Smoked, baked and fried(!). It is delicious. Nearly broke a tooth on a pellet once, tho.

[Spiffarino]

40. Chewy, but tasty.

And what Cheney did wasn't anything like hunting except that guns were used. He shot a shitpile of tame birds that have to be made to fly away. They're slow, small, and easy to bring down.

Wild quail are smart, fast, and a bitch to shoot down. This was a killfest, nothing more. Everything about Cheney is just plain fucking evil.

[miner]

41. Quail and other wild game

This post is purely culinary not political. I was an avid hunter for many years, before my wife became ill, and have shot all legal North American game except bear, mule deer, antelope, elk and moose.

Properly dressed and cooked, dove and quail are excellent.(I prefer grouse as they are larger) My absolute favorite is pheasant, cooked rare. Ducks and geese should also be cooked rare(no higher than 145 degrees F) for best results. These are not chickens or turkeys which are similar in having white breast meat which turns out dry and tasteless no matter how you cook it. Pheasant breast meat is read meat like beefsteak, but leaner, and should be cooked with that in mind. A good red wine always helps with morels(we call them wood fish, a type of wild mushroom)

The closest, to what I dearly miss, that I can buy in a store today is the occasional duck, which is OK, but not the same(too oily) as what I bagged some few years ago. I miss the hunt and the great food and I haven't even touched upon venison. Please don't condemn hunters out of hand. I have planted acres of corn, rye and other crops, never to be harvested except for the benefit of the game which ate it.

Hope this helps you that have never enjoyed quail or other wild game.

[MercutioATC]

46. Thanks for the post...

I'm not a hunter, but I don't have a problem with hunting. I think your post defines what "hunting" really is. You kill what you eat and you enjoy both the taking of the game and eating what you take.

Some people see all hunting as unacceptable. I think your contribution is valuable. Perhaps some people will view the situation differently.

[flvegan]

47. Very true.

I've enjoyed quail an a great many wild animals. I've just never shot nor killed any of them.

[BringEmOn]

49. Poppy Bush?

[upi402]

51. Tipsy Quail, tastes like a French chicken

[Ksec]

55. Fryer chicken-2 lbs, Roasting chicken- 3 lbs... Quail. 8 oz.

:)

Its not a meal, its an appetizer. A dry one at that.

[XOKCowboy]

58. Well now my grandma...

could cook up a mess of quail pretty good and it wasn't dry at all. Then again she cooked all kind of game and knew how to make it tasty. It's what they had.

At 8 ozs you better have a good hunt if you're going to eat them fresh. A lot of the dryness comes from people freezing them till they get enough, I think.

[kineneb]

57. yes, a number of years ago

my grandfather shot them in the hills and grandma & I plucked them. I don't remember what they tasted like. My memory was of feathery dust balls with very little meat. I think if I were to hunt birds I might choose something slightly larger, say duck or phesant. Something that left more after they were plucked.

So far, I have not had the particular urge to go hunting. But if another deer jumps out in front of my car...it, or one of its relatives, might wind up in my freezer (as compensation for the dent repairs). My record so far is 2 deer running in front of my cars. As far as I know, both deer escaped, slightly stunned. The autos involved both required repair. Sigh.

[XOKCowboy]

59. Reminds me of a Ron White joke

about his brother going hunting. He wore camo clothes and face paint. Got up at 4 in the morning. It was below freezing. Had deer urine on his boots. Carrying a hunting rifle that shoots a bullet 2700 feet per second...

Ron's retort was that he hit one with a van at 55 MPH with his headlights on full and his horn blowing. If you really want to shoot a deer, slow down that bullet to 55 and put some lights and a horn on it.

:)

[noshenanigans]

62. Just the other day, actually...

We went to this amazing Indian placed names Salomi and I had Tandoori Quail. it was absolutely delicious, but all of their Tandoori was very very good.

My dad goes hunting, but not bird hunting. I guess I'm just of the mind that bird hunting (except ducks, I guess, and wild turkey) is stupid. But that's because I was raised on a diet of deer, squirrel, rabbit, and turkey meat all from my father's hunting.

The idea of hunting tame animals makes me ill.. It's like a shooting spree at a veal farm.

[Peter Frank]

68. Tastes like frog legs... n/t

[bleedingheart]

70. Maryiln has....

bwahahahah....