Worst meal memory
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I was a fairly new deer hunter (OK this is not a recent story) and either my partner or I had killed an old buck. I think it must have been me, since I gutted it, but who knows, after all these years. Anyways, I cut the heart out of its sac and put it aside, then cut the liver away from all the rest of the guts/diaphragm etc etc, and put it aside. I got home that night and rinsed off the heart, put it in a bag and into the freezer. I rinsed off the liver, which was a very considerable size indeed out of this old buck, and lopped off one of the smaller lobes for the next night's supper. I sliced it up thin, put it in milk in the fridge overnight, and looked mightily forward to a meal of liver and onions the next evening.
Important note here: eating TODAY's fresh deer liver is as good a laxative, for many folks, as any that medical science has created. That is why we eat the liver on the day after the kill.
So after the next day's hunt, Marcel came over to my house for supper and we had a couple drinks and some appetizers, etc etc. We siced up some onions and sauteed them off so they would already be cooked when the liver was cooked. Then I seasoned and breaded the thin strips of liver and carefully dropped them into the hot olive oil in the frying pan. The odour from the cooking liver was not as pleasant as usual, and we both decided this had to be because of the age of the old buck. ONE BITE EACH, we just about gagged, and the rest went into the garbage.
Turns out deer PANCREAS are not very tasty at all...........
Doug
Important note here: eating TODAY's fresh deer liver is as good a laxative, for many folks, as any that medical science has created. That is why we eat the liver on the day after the kill.
So after the next day's hunt, Marcel came over to my house for supper and we had a couple drinks and some appetizers, etc etc. We siced up some onions and sauteed them off so they would already be cooked when the liver was cooked. Then I seasoned and breaded the thin strips of liver and carefully dropped them into the hot olive oil in the frying pan. The odour from the cooking liver was not as pleasant as usual, and we both decided this had to be because of the age of the old buck. ONE BITE EACH, we just about gagged, and the rest went into the garbage.
Turns out deer PANCREAS are not very tasty at all...........
Doug
It is Bill Dance, who could buy pretty well all of the guns advertised any given week on Gun Nutz with his spare change.
He has a full length "Bloopers" video, available through Bass Pro Shops for about $20, and in fact a buddy of mine just ordered one.
Doug
He has a full length "Bloopers" video, available through Bass Pro Shops for about $20, and in fact a buddy of mine just ordered one.
Doug
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Doug said:
OMG! ahaha! it's almost 4am and I think I just woke people up laughing.. oh man that's funny/sorry to hear
Doug said:
Mannnn,
Thanks for the clarification.
That's why I read more than I post.
Better to be quiet and remain a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
Gotta trade some of my women anatomy books for the deer anatomy ones
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...back to Gibbs505..........
You can bet I did the smell test on the raw liver when it thawed, and again when it was cooking..........
I don't think Marcel ate deer liver for a year or so afterwards, though.....
But that was many dozens of meals of deer liver ago now. We still chuckle about it occasionally, one of the old hunting stories that are "markers" on our shared hunting experience history.
Doug
You can bet I did the smell test on the raw liver when it thawed, and again when it was cooking..........
I don't think Marcel ate deer liver for a year or so afterwards, though.....
But that was many dozens of meals of deer liver ago now. We still chuckle about it occasionally, one of the old hunting stories that are "markers" on our shared hunting experience history.
Doug
I was on an exercise with the military, I opened a box of rations to find mold comming out of most of them. I routed through the box and found one good ration. Or so I thought.
It went down easy enough, but later that night I was C9 gunner on a patrol and all hell broke lose in my guts. Cold sweat, shallow breaths, projectile vomit. Made for a very long night.
It went down easy enough, but later that night I was C9 gunner on a patrol and all hell broke lose in my guts. Cold sweat, shallow breaths, projectile vomit. Made for a very long night.
In November of last year I was getting the gear ready to do a little caribou sniffing out the Ingraham trail from Yellowknife and I dug out the thermos which I hadn’t used since the Labour Day weekend in September.
As you may be aware, us east coasters like our tea strong and my practice is to put two tea bags in the thermos and leave them there to “steep”. Makes an excellent brew of tea!
Anyway, I noticed that the tea this time tasted rather strong (even for me) and a little bitter, but I put it down to the fact that the bags had been soaking for a few hours. The surprise came when, on cleaning the thermos that evening, FOUR bags fell out - two of them left there to ferment since the Labour Day weekend! Penicillin anyone!
As you may be aware, us east coasters like our tea strong and my practice is to put two tea bags in the thermos and leave them there to “steep”. Makes an excellent brew of tea!
Anyway, I noticed that the tea this time tasted rather strong (even for me) and a little bitter, but I put it down to the fact that the bags had been soaking for a few hours. The surprise came when, on cleaning the thermos that evening, FOUR bags fell out - two of them left there to ferment since the Labour Day weekend! Penicillin anyone!
