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Why don't we eat seagulls?
I was in Scarborough at the weekend and walking along the front I noticed some absolutely huge seagulls strutting around. It got me wondering - why have I never heard of anyone eating a seagull?
We eat pigeon and dove after all and various other wild birds, so why not seagulls? There's billions of the buggers out there and some of them are absolutely huge! Are they perhaps "dirty" and carry disease in the same way common pigeons do? Would their meat be too salty or otherwise inedible? Anyone here ever tried seagull, or know someone who has? I'd be very interested in the answer!
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Have you tasted seagull ? Like crows they are not nice.
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People in the Orkneys, Shetland and St Kilda used to survive on eating seagulls. Those would have been wild fish-fed birds, though, not the pizza and vomit feeders we have now. Icelanders still eat puffin.
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Have you tasted seagull ?
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Many many years ago had crow and I am told todays seagulls taste similar due to the rubbish they eat.
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I read an article in the papers yersteday about some downed airmen in the war who were adrift in a life raft and had to catch gulls to survive- apparently the first time they were so rank that it made them ill but two of them did survive.
Mind you they were raw which is pretty gross |
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Why don't we eat seagulls?
Because you can get an albatross for 9p - much better value
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_u7VGiMO0U
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I remember Ramsay eating Puffin. IIRC it was rank so if seagulls are similar then it might be the reason.
I saw HFW eating crows and he said they were quite nice. |
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its because there a bugger to catch.
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I remember Ramsay eating Puffin. IIRC it was rank so if seagulls are similar then it might be the reason.
I also remember him getting bitten on the nose by one! ![]() Quote:
its because there a bugger to catch.
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I remember that Gordon Ramsey programme. I seem to remember him saying they were nice?
I also remember him getting bitten on the nose by one! ![]()
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People in the Orkneys, Shetland and St Kilda used to survive on eating seagulls. Those would have been wild fish-fed birds, though, not the pizza and vomit feeders we have now. Icelanders still eat puffin.
I came here to say that the amazing people of St Kilda used to eat these birds. You beat me to it. |
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OK so I think that the conclusion I'm getting is that seagulls who hang around Scarborough and other seaside towns would taste awful because of all the crap they eat. Makes perfect sense.
But surely there are places where seagulls that don't eat rubbish could be sourced from? I realise there probably isn't a demand for it, ut I'd certainly like to try it and see how it tasted! (Not the Scarborough ones though, obviously) |
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I was in Scarborough at the weekend and walking along the front I noticed some absolutely huge seagulls strutting around. It got me wondering - why have I never heard of anyone eating a seagull?
We eat pigeon and dove after all and various other wild birds, so why not seagulls? There's billions of the buggers out there and some of them are absolutely huge! Are they perhaps "dirty" and carry disease in the same way common pigeons do? Would their meat be too salty or otherwise inedible? Anyone here ever tried seagull, or know someone who has? I'd be very interested in the answer! ![]() Personally, I wouldn't go near one! |
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Why would anyone want to eat a Seagull?
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Why would anyone want to eat a Seagull?
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One of our local Chinese restaurants got closed for a while because they were under suspicion of serving seagull, masked as chicken! Environmental Health got involved after people were getting violently sick after eating there!!
It's open again now. I've never been back! |
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One of our local Chinese restaurants got closed for a while because they were under suspicion of serving seagull, masked as chicken! Environmental Health got involved after people were getting violently sick after eating there!!
It's open again now. I've never been back! Once some sailors got shipwreck on the island where dodos come from, they thought "yay, loads of massive chickens ", tried to eat it and it was completely inedible, just all fat and gristle.
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I also remember him getting bitten on the nose by one! 