If you think that's gross, you should see how animals are raised and butchered in factory farming...

I ate roadkill in New Jersey.

My best friend, who had an auto repair shop, had worked as a butcher at a meat processing plant. A mutual friend's wife saw an oncoming pickup truck hit a deer; she got the driver and his buddy to throw the carcass in the back of her Colt Vista, and brought it straight to his shop. He "processed" it on the transmission bench, and we ate very well that winter...

I hit a deer on a MA state highway about ten years ago. By the time the police arrived to make their report, there were about thirty hunters standing around asking, "Are you gonna eat that?"

I pulverized the damn thing, so the local animal control officer ended up with it anyway.

Road Kill Cafe... "You Kill It; We grill It."

Nothing wrong with eating animals that got hit by vehicles, as long as the animal is disease free and tasty.

But then again how can you be sure it's disease free...

Rhodehouse.

Looks like I'll have to avoid Rhode Island.

That is just... YUCK.

I prefer my meat dead WAY longer!

Meh...
/from Kentucky
//Not impressed

I'd patronize this establishment.

/West Virginia native

My brother was on his way home from work when he spotted a wounded deer on the side of the road. He stops and sure enough it's a deer that was hit by a car, with both front legs broken. He grabbed framing hammer from his truck and had venison for dinner.

EKU Colonel: Road Kill Cafe... "You Kill It; We grill It."

Approves:

So is a side of Brittany Murphy on the menu or what
/Sliced thin please

I thought this was the norm in rural areas. The silver lining hitting a dear with your vehicle was that you at least got to bring it home and have venison for a while.

Good for him.

The key is in where the report was filed: SMITHFIELD. Places in northern RI like Woonsocket are crazy and backwater.

Clearly, Tennessee has dropped the ball.

/though we do have the 3 hour rule in effect on roadkill
//mmmm, fresh-kilt possum
///we can get granny to make up a mess a' chitlins

beer4breakfast: I thought this was the norm in rural areas.


Pretty much, and they get better eatins' than here in the city with our vehicular prize usually being "hipster fixed-gear cyclist"

LittleSmitty
My brother was on his way home from work when he spotted a wounded deer on the side of the road. He stops and sure enough it's a deer that was hit by a car, with both front legs broken. He grabbed framing hammer from his truck and had venison for dinner.

Musta' been real tender!!
/How did he field dress a deer with a claw hammer??

Road Kill Cook Off,,,Marlington, WV every Fall!

siromega: Rhodehouse.

Pain does hurt....deer.

/R.I.P. Randy Rhoads

gorgor: You can make it at home too
http://tinyurl.com/ychnuz5
(copy and paste)

I've come to expect more than a simple re-titling of a Hamburger Helper box when I click a gorgor link.

laid back w/bud light: LittleSmitty
My brother was on his way home from work when he spotted a wounded deer on the side of the road. He stops and sure enough it's a deer that was hit by a car, with both front legs broken. He grabbed framing hammer from his truck and had venison for dinner.

Musta' been real tender!!
/How did he field dress a deer with a claw hammer??

He only put it out of its misery with the hammer. He tossed it in the bed of the truck and took it home for a proper butchering.

He's shot two already this season. One the day bow season opened, and one the day after rifle season opened

Home sweet home.

5 hour rule man. It's totally safe to eat.

What's with the "Sick" tag? Meat is delicious, no? Does it matter how it's killed? As long as it's intact and unspoiled, sup to your hearts delight. Those finicky enough to wince at this article don't deserve to eat meat.

Agrees!
Killed a 3 by 2 with a Ford 302 (Grenada)
Great snow in Az. in 1989.
nom, nom, nom....
Great dent too.

"From your grille, to ours"

Something like this happened to a deer my mom hit. After she wrecked the deers face some guy pulled over to make sure she was ok and called the cops. Mainly because the deer hadn't died but had broken it's legs/jacked up its face and was crawling around the road making some screaming noise, but unfortunately county cops can't discharge a firearm to euthanize a dying animal so they had to wait for a state trooper.

Anyway a state trooper came by and dropped the deer with a couple shots to the head, the dude that originally stopped asked the cop if he could have it, evidently it wasn't a problem so he loaded the deer in the back of his truck and off he went.

End of the day, some guy got a fresh tenderized deer to eat. Mom was ok but shaken up at seeing a pretty horrifying thing. Her car had a scratch on it, she hit it in such a way that it basically rolled over it.

/drunk
//cool story bro

As long as the meat is fine and cooked properly, what's the problem dumbmitter? Roadkill is meat. I'd have no problems eating it.

I wish I could have done that when I hit a yearling calf one night. Fresh veal.

I was too busy filling out accident reports and watching people hit the other calves that were out on the road.

My car mostly lived over it. 1972 Chrysler LeBaron cast iron tank.
The other cars, not so much.

A 1980's Ford Escort - totalled
A 90ish Toyota pickup - totalled

Road kill venison chili....mmmmmm

/no
//the recipe
///you can't haz

The Alaska State Patrol has a list of people to call when some poor sap hits a moose. Its usually a food bank or a needy family. I guess they figure it won't go to waste.

FROM THE UNITED STATES VENISON COUNCIL

Controversy has long raged about the relative quality and taste of venison and beef as gourmet foods. Some people say that venison is tough, with a strong "wild" taste. Others insist that venison's flavor is delicate. An independent food research group was retained by the Venison Council to conduct a taste test to determine the truth of these conflicting assertions once and for all.

First a Grade A Choice Angus steer was chased into a swamp a mile and a half from a road and shot several times. After some of the entrails were removed, the carcass was dragged back over rocks and logs, and through mud and dust to the road. It was then thrown into the back of a pickup truck and driven through rain and snow for 100 miles before being hung out in the sun for 10 days. After that it was lugged into a garage, where it was skinned and rolled around on the floor for a while. Strict sanitary precautions were observed throughout the test, within the limitations of the butchering environment. For instance, dogs and cats were allowed to sniff and lick the steer carcass, but were chased away when they attempted to bite chunks out of it.

Next a sheet of plywood left from last year's butchering was set up in the basement on two saw horses. The pieces of dried blood, hair and fat left from last year were scraped off with a wire brush last used to clean out the grass stuck under the lawn mower.

The skinned carcass was then dragged down the steps into the basement where a half dozen inexperienced but enthusiastic and intoxicated men worked on it with meat saws, cleavers and dull knives. The result was 375 pounds of soup bones, four bushel baskets of meat scraps, and a couple of steaks that were an eighth of an inch thick on one edge and an inch and a half thick on the other. The steaks were seared on a glowing red hot cast iron skillet to lock in the flavor. When the smoke cleared, rancid bacon grease was added along with three pounds of onions, and the whole conglomeration was fried for two hours.

The meat was gently teased from the frying pan and served to three blindfolded taste panel volunteers. Every one of the members of the panel thought it was venison. One of the volunteers even said it tasted exactly like the venison he had eaten in hunting camps for the past 27 years.

The results of this scientific test show conclusively that there is no difference between the taste of beef and venison.

Did the same thing my senior year. My sister managed to take out a deer. I should say the deer took out her headlight (it more ran into her than vice versa). Snapped its neck immediately, skin wasn't even punctured.

Was the only deer my dad got that year.

/Venison Jerkey... mmmmm

subaudio: If you think that's gross, you should see how animals are raised and butchered in factory farming...

This.

If I was going to have issues with eating meat (which I don't), factory farmed meat would be the first on the list.

Free range herbivores living in the wild (ie roadkill deer)? Feh. That's as safe and clean as meat gets.

i.r.id10t:
The result was 375 pounds of soup bones, four bushel baskets of meat scraps, and a couple of steaks that were an eighth of an inch thick on one edge and an inch and a half thick on the other.

That's so awesome. :)