h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

near where my mam lives (other end of town)there are a few trees, last week a neighbour saw a car pull up and a youth jump out - take a shot at a "tree" with an air rifle, then the driver got out and ran, picked up a pigeon (a shot one) and then both sped off

they not brits

Pigeons are yummy, they make good gravy

Takes quite a few to satisy a grown man though

How do pigeons make gravy?

How do pigeons make gravy?..Pierce said "good"
Well if I was sitting in A tree and someone came along and shot me I'd definitely, defecate...imagine pigeon would do the same...cant think it make good gravy though..

I *knew* somebody was going to ask! I *knew* it! This is h2g2 after all. And you didn't let me down. Thank you!

I was a mere boy when I had roast pigeon the first time. Three, if memory serves. And the gravy didn't taste anything like pidgeon poo - although, how would I know

My grandma likes to tell stories of soup made of craw meat. Her fater was a hunter and they hunted craws in the field with an owl.

Tav, is 'craw' a largest black bird? If so it is crow in English. Some people render its call as caaaw.

Sorry, that was a spelling mistake, yes, a crow. Krähe in German.

Wow, that's interesting, Tav, that people eat crows.

There's an old children's rhyme in English that goes, 'four and twenty blackbirds, baked into a pie'.

But also in English, 'to eat crow' means to be forced to apologise because you misunderstood something. Like, 'when the defendant was found innocent, the police and prosecution hat to eat crow.'

I am not sure that crows would be good eating---if they have been chowng down on grain it would be OK, but crows also are scavengers who eat dead things as well. That wouldn't be too tasty. But it would be more like eating the locusts which become a plague in the Middle East.

Like this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21847517


Aparently a single grasshopper just eats grass but under certain condtions they develop stronger wings and swarm in huge numbers eating every plant they come across.

Don't talk to me about grasshoppers. Shudder. To me, the grasshopper always lies heavy...

It was common to eat crows in Denmark in the olden days. Usually very young birds, mind (unless you were on thr brink of starvation, of course). And rooks, thrushes and starlings too by the way

The black crow, rook (?), not the raven, is still considered a special delicacy here. You are supposed to take them young. I tried once, it's not bad. More flavour than chicken, and a little drier meat. Good stuff.

Grandma also says that crow soup is very tasty.

Well, the video *is* from North Korea, but it's not about America... http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/northkorea.asp

DNA manipulationbreed chickens with 6 legsthen all the family can have one

Aha! Amy, you have restored my faith in scriptwriters.

Now, that a British travel writer could have been responsible for a 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?' version of a propaganda video is totally believable.

Once again, tahnks to you for finding this and setting us straight - and thanks as always to the redoubtable Mikkelson team for keeping the internet from scrambling our brains.

I'd actually seen the Snopes article before your link here--Snopes is in my feed. I just was waiting for someone else to point it out--and to see where the discussion went

Good thing you did. In typical h2g2 fashion, it zeroed in on the highly entertaining topic of crow recipes.

Didn't take that big a drift to get there, though