Squirrel Pie Business based in Leicestershire 150 a week sold at £2:50 each

[arista]

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How to earn a crust out of squirrels: Customers go nuts for pies made using animal's meat

Business based in Old Dalby, Leicestershire, is shifting 150 pies a week
Phil Walmsley, 46, hunts squirrels, then makes pies which sell for £2.50
Squirrels - which are legal to kill - have dark meat and taste 'gamey'
Recipe won Mr Walmsley and his wife Katherine, 53, a British Pie Award


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626743/How-earn-crust-squirrels-Customers-nuts-pies-using-animals-meat.html#ixzz31lwRMZq9


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I would buy one



They were tasted on Ch5HD this morning

[Vanessa]

D:

[arista]

Vanessa
it tastes good they said

[Vanessa]

No, thank you. :conf2:

[arista]

No, thank you. :conf2:


Yes must try things
it won't kill you

[Vanessa]

Yes must try things
it won't kill you

But i like squirrels. I don't want to eat them. :(

[Kizzy]

He's found a niche in the market there, and with them only eating nuts/fruit/seeds I bet they taste nice?

[jackc1806]

He's found a niche in the market there, and with them only eating nuts/fruit/seeds I bet they taste nice?

I bet they do actually. I'd try one :laugh:

[arista]

But i like squirrels. I don't want to eat them. :(


So Do I
Red ones


These grey ones are Evil got rid of them Our Red ones



Pay back

[arista]

I bet they do actually. I'd try one :laugh:


You are Most Wise

[Livia]

What a ridiculous gimmick. Why stop at squirrels? Around where I live they shoot magpies, jays, all kinds of wildlife. What are we, hillbillies? What next, roadkill?

[Kizzy]

Pheasant, partridge, duck, rabbit and quail are acceptable? Squirrel are more prevalent too so there is no risk of reducing numbers too drastically.

[arista]

What a ridiculous gimmick. Why stop at squirrels? Around where I live they shoot magpies, jays, all kinds of wildlife. What are we, hillbillies? What next, roadkill?



No these grey ones killed our red ones




Pay back

[Livia]

Squirrels are vermin. They eat all kinds of crap... if people want to eat vermin that's very much their call. Not for me though. I don't eat any game because it tastes horrible IMO

[arista]

Squirrels are vermin. They eat all kinds of crap... if people want to eat vermin that's very much their call. Not for me though. I don't eat any game because it tastes horrible IMO



We are eat their meat
not tummy.

[Niamh.]

Aww poor Squirrels :'(

[arista]

Aww poor Squirrels :'(


No their are Guilty

[Livia]

We are eat their meat
not tummy.

Not "we" arista. You maybe... It'd be like eating rats.

[Niamh.]

No their are Guilty

I object, You Honour!

[Kizzy]

Eastern gray squirrels eat a range of foods, such as tree bark, tree buds, berries, many types of seeds and acorns, walnuts, and other nuts, and some types of fungi found in the forests, including fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria).[23] They can cause damage by tearing the tree bark and eating the soft cambial tissue underneath. In Europe, sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) L. and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) suffer the greatest damage.[24]

'Eastern gray squirrels have a high enough tolerance for humans to inhabit residential neighborhoods and will raid bird feeders for millet, corn, and sunflower seeds. On very rare occasions, when their usual food sources are scarce, eastern gray squirrels will also prey upon insects, frogs, small rodents including other squirrels, and small birds, their eggs and young.[1][15] They will also gnaw on bones, antlers, and turtle shells – likely as a source of minerals sparse in their normal diet'

I have the feeling that if we knew what food our farm produced animals ate it wouldn't be as appetising.

[smudgie]

Not for me, I don't like "gamey" tasting food.

Good idea though, grey squirrels are a pest, even though they do look cute.

[Livia]

Hey, enjoy your squirrel. Not for me though...

[jackc1806]

Is there enough meat on 1 squirrel to make a pie?

[Kizzy]

I think if more people were less ignorant to the facts surrounding the food that was on their plate they would be a lot more accepting of this concept.

[Livia]

Most people are clued up about what they eat. If someone doesn't want to eat something, that's their own choice, and resorting to eating vermin in a pie isn't what I choose to do. But hey, if you fancy it, knock yourself out.

[arista]

Is there enough meat on 1 squirrel to make a pie?



yes

and:


they’re classified as vermin and it’s legal to kill them.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626743/How-earn-crust-squirrels-Customers-nuts-pies-using-animals-meat.html#ixzz31mSBqaxH

[Kizzy]

As seen with the horse meat scandal most people don't have a clue what they are eating, and personally I wouldn't class a squirrel as vermin, but I appreciate some might.

[Tom4784]

Ugh, I'd pass on this. I have no interest in eating rodents.

[Vanessa]

I think they're cute.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTD0whPVqxBVHPhH6Uolxfh6RXogUbpr frummC2fu0I5IUQCaSufw

[Crimson Dynamo]

Excellent idea to kill the non indigenous immigrant grey squirrel. Pies look tasty. Good for the man.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Since their introduction into Britain between 1876 and the 1920’s, grey squirrels have spread rapidly, gradually displacing the native red squirrel in most of England and Wales, and in central and south-east Scotland.

Grey squirrels are extremely destructive in woodlands, stripping bark from the main stem and branches of trees. Increasingly, wider impacts of grey squirrels are being recognised as of potential major significance to woodland conservation, biodiversity and sustainability.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/forestresearch.nsf/ByUnique/INFD-69EKTZ

[Niamh.]

But they're very cute :nono:

[arista]

But they're very cute :nono:


So are OUR Red ones
that the Evil grey ones KILLED our Reds

[arista]

I think they're cute.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTD0whPVqxBVHPhH6Uolxfh6RXogUbpr frummC2fu0I5IUQCaSufw



http://www.forestry.gov.uk/images/redsquirrel.jpg/$FILE/redsquirrel.jpg
british reds

[Niamh.]

http://i.imgur.com/AKsI6KI.gif

[arista]

http://i.imgur.com/AKsI6KI.gif


fecking greys killed our reds


FACT

[Kizzy]

Full ingredient list for a Chicken McNugget

CHICKEN MCNUGGETS
Allergens: WHEAT
Ingredients: White Boneless Chicken, Water, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Seasoning (Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Salt, Wheat Starch, Natural Flavoring , Safflower Oil, Dextrose, Citric Acid), Sodium Phosphates, Natural Flavor (Botanical Source). Battered and Breaded with: Water, Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Yellow Corn Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Lactate), Spices, Wheat Starch, Dextrose, Corn Starch.

CONTAINS: WHEAT.


Prepared in Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with [B]TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

silicone and butane


I'll have the pie, and no I don't want fries with that :joker:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I saw a red one yesterday!

[Livia]

Ugh, I'd pass on this. I have no interest in eating rodents.

I know! It'd be like eating rat pie. How long before this business crumbles? We should ask Ben to do the odds.

[Kazanne]

I'de like to think if there is a God,that he would reincarnate these animal killers into the very beasts they kill and also suffer the same fate,just throwing that out there.

[Kizzy]

Squirrels are no different from any other omnivore we eat regularly in the UK.

[Livia]

I'de like to think if there is a God,that he would reincarnate these animal killers into the very beasts they kill and also suffer the same fate,just throwing that out there.

Agreed Kaz. This is just a gimmick. Next it'll be hedgehog pie... go on! It's good for you, it tastes like chicken!

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Livia]

I hear possum's good too, so long as the wheels of the truck haven't flattened it too much.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I hear possum's good too, so long as the wheels of the truck haven't flattened it too much.

aaaahh possums are lovely if a little rat like. We had them in out roof in Oz and they came down at sunset to be fed.



http://barfblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/possum_baby_nov_11.jpg

[Livia]

Possums are as cute as pie. No pun intended.

[Kizzy]

I feel that if there was more diversity in the food we ate then there wouldn't be as much exploitation and mistreatment of the animals we do raise as food, the intensive farming methods used now for them would then hopefully diminish.

[Jemal]

Don't get the fuss tbh.

[Me. I Am Salman]

lemme just throw up

[Livia]

lemme just throw up

I'll hold your hair back for you Salman.

[Cherie]

Excellent idea to kill the non indigenous immigrant grey squirrel. Pies look tasty. Good for the man.

You can tell you are a UKIP supporter even the Squirrels are under attack :laugh:

[Kizzy]

You can tell you are a UKIP supporter even the Squirrels are under attack :laugh:

Comin over ere... takin our acorns... :joker:

[BBfanUSA]

I would want to eat it.

In North America it's uncommon for people to hunt Deer, Rabbits, Etc, Etc. and then eat it. (after cooking of course)

I've had a buffalo burger many times. It has a hickory taste to it.

[Jake.]

No thanks, sounds awful and I have no need to eat it.. seems to be doing something different just for the sake of it

[Cherie]

One of the contestants on CDWM served it once, all agreed it was quiet chewy.

[InOne]

Doesn't sound overly appealing.

[arista]

Doesn't sound overly appealing.


So


still worth a free taste

[InOne]

So


still worth a free taste

I don't live in Leicestershire and certainly won't be going for a Squirrel pie.

[smeagol]

i hope someone hunts them and puts them in a pie. . more psychos and weirdo's