Wild Cat Soup

[The_Munchmaster]

Any Aussie Board members tried this?

 

Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.

 

The felines are the descendants of domestic pets and kill millions of small native animals each year.

 

A recent Alice Springs contest featured wild cat casserole. The meat is said to taste like a cross between rabbit and, perhaps inevitably, chicken.

 

But wildlife campaigners have expressed their dismay that Australia's wild cat now finds itself on the nation's menus.

 

Cat stew recipe

 

Feral cats are one of the most serious threats to Australia's native fauna.

 

They eat almost anything that moves, including small marsupials, lizards, birds and spiders.

 

The woman behind the controversial cat stew recipe has said Australians could do their bit to help the environment by tucking into more feral pests, including pigeons and camels.

 

But it was a recipe for feline casserole that impressed some of the judges at an outback food competition in Alice Springs.

 

Preparing this unusual stew seems simple enough.

 

The meat should be diced and fried until it is brown. Then lemon grass is to be added along with salt and pepper and three cups of quandong, which is a sweet desert fruit.

 

It is recommended that the dish be left to simmer for five hours before being garnished with bush plums and mistletoe berries.

 

Marinated moggie was not to everyone's taste. One of the competition judges found the meat impossibly tough and had to politely excuse herself and spit it out in a backroom.

 

Wild cats are considered good eating by some Aborigines, who roast the animals on an open fire.

 

This outback cuisine does come with a health warning.

 

Scientists have said that those eating wild cats could be exposed to harmful bacteria and toxins.

 

[Julian2]

As an Australian who's eaten a little pussy in his day I'm afraid I'd have to give that version a miss.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Did you try eating it by cooking it like MM said?

[Ongchaiyai]

Just shoot the little f*ckers, why waste 5hr's cooking them!

[Julian2]

When I lived in the bush the golden rule was every cat you saw outside of town you shot.

Mind you I like cats, I've enjoyed the company of a few as pets, they're more independent then dogs, but you have to have them de-sexed before the hormones cut in or they're an environmental menace.

 

I'll admit that some of the pussy I ate in Thailand tasted of chillies and lemon grass when it got hot.

[The_Munchmaster]

 

Well, I suppose they didn't have anything better to do.

[Torneyboy]

Me to

[Torneyboy]

My board name of torneyboy(from the storey torney scrawny lion) ..is after a cat we owned for a while ..until i ran over him in the car one night after work...and no we did not eat him...

[Julian2]

 

Well, I suppose they didn't have anything better to do.

See the size of those fuckers? My brother in law was a fox shooter for a while before it became politically incorrect and he had feral cat skins that would have made a leopard envious.

[Flashermac]

Good way to get rid of illegal immigrants too. Plus there's more meat on them.