Fun with Diversity...

[wolfie]

What's on the menu for dinner tonight?

Poached duck.

Why couldn't you roast it instead? It's more flavourful that way.

I am roasting it.

But you said it was poached?

[PepperElf]

since they've now killed an animal in a wildlife preserve.

I've eaten duck myself and it's quite tasty.

However stealing is stealing no matter what you look like or where you're from. And since the employers owned the park stealing from the boss is quite a big no-no.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yes, it's a very fatty meat. It's dark and flavorful and melts in your mouth if it's cooked right. There is a thick layer of fat under the skin that will coat your oven door.

Word of advice: Do NOT try to grill one unless you want to recreate that scene out of The Ten Commandments where a pillar of fire appeared from the earth to heaven.

[Zaiida]

What the duck?! Sorry couldn't resist.

Roast duck is nice though. Wild pig is better. Roo is not bad.

[PepperElf]

I've had kangaroo. not bad. also reindeer, shark, camel... actually the shark wasn't that great but that one was cooked at my first college so they may have done it wrong. the others were ok though.

[Flying Grype]

The other thing, though -- if they're cared-for animals that get veterinary treatment, they'll be full of medicines, anti-parasitics, etc. There are specific ones that you get for food-destined animals, and if the animals are not going to be eaten the medication specifically says it's not for food animals. So that's the other thing that could be a problem when you eat randomly-obtained pet or zoo duck.

But. I still want to call BS on the story, a bit, if only because it sounds like racist rumour-mongering -- the kind of story that's ultimately false but is believable enough for other people to spread without actively wanting to say anything against another race.

[morgana]

Quoth Flying Grype

But. I still want to call BS on the story, a bit, if only because it sounds like racist rumour-mongering -- the kind of story that's ultimately false but is believable enough for other people to spread without actively wanting to say anything against another race.

I can't speak to the truth or otherwise of the original stories. I can, however, state that when I worked in Kansas City for (the phone company that sounds like a type of running) a large percentage of the workforce in my division was imported on work visas from a certain country that now specializes in call centers.

It was emphasized in the employee handbook that I personally walked each new person through, that although we had hundreds of ducks nesting and grazing near our building, they were NOT for consumption. And that contracted employees would be and had been sent back to country that now specializes in call centers for poaching ducks.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Here is a line from a classic cartoon:

Quoth J. Wellington Wimpy

Come over to my house for a duck dinner. You bring the duck!

[Scorpodael]

Quoth Zaiida

What the duck?! Sorry couldn't resist.

Roast duck is nice though. Wild pig is better. Roo is not bad.

Wild pig is also quite dangerous if you don't know what you're doing with it- easy to undercook, and end up with a horrifically painful lifelong parasitic infection burrowed in your muscle tissue.

[MournBlade]

Wild pig might also have you for dinner if you aren't careful... as for the original story - I love me some duck but I refrain from poaching - thats just bad taste ;p