I wouldn’t buy that shite. Cant imagine its good
Clarissa Dickson Wright:
I miss eating badger When I was young, West Country pubs had badger ham on the bar – it was rather like jamon ibérico – you paid your pennies and had a slice of it and very good it was; delicate meat, not gamey. Then the Protection of Badgers Act was passed, which achieved nothing as now we have all these problems with them; they’re a pest.
A wartime correspondent to The Western Morning News on Saturday 22 February 1941 wrote: “In Italy they eat the flesh of badgers, and so they do in Germany, boiling it with pears. Incidentally, badger hams were a local delicacy in parts of England less than a century ago and a badger feast – at which a roasted badger eaten with penknives, no forks being allowed – is an annual event at the Cow Inn, Ilchester. The diet of badgers is different from that of foxes; except in spring, when they eat many young rabbits, badgers do not themselves consume much flesh, and there is no reason why they should not be good to eat. They are said to taste much like pork, but travelers say that bear meat provides a closer comparison.”
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That has to be fake??
Two bachelor brothers lived together about 3 miles from us and were the go-to lads for parts of machinery back in the day. I was there one morning looking for tines for a raker and had to knock on the door. This fabulous smell was the 1st image of the inside of their dwelling and curiosity overtook me……
A stew young Boxty, a badger stew with a few off-cut bones thrown in….
The huge pot never came off the range and was topped up every few days with rabbits, chickens or whatever they caught or snared. They got 2 black sacks of bones and stuff in the butchers every Saturday for the good old fiver and this kept the thing augmented. Healthy as trouts the pair of them….
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Tis a wonder they never married 
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Do not think I would fancy badger meat in any guise – unless I was extremely hungry. But I was struck by the CDW comment.
The father asked me once, years ago, whether I had ever eaten snails. “Yes,” says I. “And frog’s legs as well.” He says back: “How could you eat that stuff?” I replied: “If you were a poor French peasant, unable to afford protein, you would eat it too.” He nodded the head.
I had whelks in Leucate and even persuaded my companions at the table to try them. They were pleasantly surprised.
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I’ll tell you , weekly wonder in Dunnes have the tayto party pack on at 5 for a fiver
They’re fairly tasty. I munched my through one of them on the way home from Dublin
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Cack bad
I’m partial to pork scratchings but I find them very difficult to get, especially since Brexit.
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Top notch
Dealz in Shannon is where I stock up on em every couple of months
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No shortage of scratching porks around here
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Got this stuff off the African food truck in merrion square a while back. It’s unreal. Proper bit of heat in it and the beef is nice and crispy which I find nicer than other jerky type products.
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Keogh’s crinkle cut cheese and onion are greatest crips planet earth has ever witnessed. Unbelievable.
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Unreal.
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