moose eater
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I grew a taste for properly handled, disease-free, clean moose meat (note the qualifying stipulations). I mean, a real taste. Like sometimes a craving.do you, personally, ever really get tired of eating moose? i understand you get "quite a bit of meat" off of a moose. i've heard of arguments about "who needed to eat their #$@% share" of the elk in the freezer . i've never had so much whitetail venison that i got tired of eating it. that would be like me saying at breakfast "bacon ? AGAIN? was the store out of vienna sausage or something?"
I haven't had moose in the freezer now for most of 2 years, with the exception of some steaks and/or burger (can't recall) that a friend of my younger son's from up the hill brought over a couple seasons back;' so, I guess slightly less than a year and a half ago.
I've never gotten tired of moose meat. My kids were raised on far more moose meat than anything else, though they always had variety and then some.
When we were building the house and staying in a cabin without running water with 2 very young kids, on occasion, driving between the building site and the cabin, I'd 'accidentally' hang my rear differential on my older Toyota pick-up truck over the head of a grouse or 2 of one variety or another, when they'd be eating gravel in the roadway. That fine art-form of poaching would 'accidentally' coincide with the grouse('greese? j/k) unfortunately raising its head to -just- high enough for the rear differential to partially decapitate the bird(s), breaking their necks, while causing enough vacuum in the passing of the vehicle to half-way bleed the thing in a surprisingly effective manner.
This often ended up in Szechuan stir-fried hot spicy grouse in peanut and five-spice sauce.
One day my then 3-year old (or 4 maybe?) daughter, our oldest, asked me if we could have stir-fried grouse for dinner.. I was shocked!!
Roughed grouse is the pheasant of grouse, imo, tasty as they come. But back then, the majority of the grouse here were spruce hens, and they typically have a fairly distinct gamey flavor.... somewhat 'sprucey', and strong, literally.
So wild game grew on my kids.
For me, Sitka Blacktail deer, imported white tail from down south, or mule deer, or even properly handled bear meat, and especially moutain/Dall sheep (my all-time favorite), they're all good. nothing wrong with eating on them for life, as long as some fish and other items are sprinkled in on occasion. Muk Tuk I can do for quite a while and not tire of it, if properly handled.
Caribou I tired of after eating some in the 1970s in the Yukon Territory at the hippie school that someone had hung in a walk-in veggie cooler, and all 3 of those 'bou tasted like musty mildewed veggies smell, no matter how deeply you cut into a quarter to find a good steak. But I even got past that bad memory eventually. And have eaten a fair bit of bou since then.
A lot of it is being able to use any meat in a variety of conventional or unconventional receipes that you -like- with any type of meat, so it never becomes truly boring or too terrribly redundant.
life is a bag of mixed blessings.
. (WW2)
