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Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Rabbit meat is healthy, low in fat, delicate and delicious. I'm surprised it isn't more widely consumed in Poland. Anyone out there raise rabbits in hutches? Anyone got a good rabbit recipe?
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Polonius3:
Rabbit meat is healthy, low in fat, delicate and delicious

It sure is had it a couple times, not like Deer meet all dry and lacking flavor.
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PennBoy:
Deer meet all dry and lacking flavor

That's why you only shoot fatty does, not leathery old bucks.
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Venison (deer meat) kie³basa is very nice when made 50-50 with fatty pork and generously seasoned with garlic, pepper, juniper and marjoram.
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Leave the bunnies alone! What's next, frying kittens? :s
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my last night dinner:
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this little cute thing was delicious!!!!
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D:
Evil! How could you?! >:(
shawnatwork  Oct 19, 10, 18:23    #8
trener zolwia:
Evil! How could you?!

One bite at a time...
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How about hamsters? Do the Polish eat hamsters too? :s
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Hamsters? Well... not as tasty as a swans, but they'll do.
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kondzior:
Hamsters? Well... not as tasty as a swans, but they'll do.


Hamsters? There's no eating on them. Swans, however, are 'royal birds' simply because only the Royal Family had the right to eat them. The British Royal Family. There's still a big swan farm somewhere on the Thames. Hardly a Polish tradition, just to spoil the joke...
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@nott
Sorry to rain on your parade but was you not aware of this:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23407357-sorry-poached-swan s-off-calls-for-clampdown-on-river-bandits-from-estern-europe.do
One of most funny things I ever stumbled upon....
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kondzior:
Sorry to rain on your parade but was you not aware of this:


No problem with rain :) Look at the date, it's an old story, urban legend, already many times explained and fully investigated. There was a Gypsy camp, Daily Mail reporter sees all weird new-Europeans as Poles, so go figure. There was investigation by reporters from a Polish newspaper, and even an official protest, followed by official apologies.

Swans are not food in Poland, to eat a swan is like eating a dog, or a cat.

As for fish, it's an old story too. Fact is, Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland. Now hardly anybody is unaware of the weird British custom of tormenting poor creatures just for the sake of it :)
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nott:
Swans are not food in Poland, to eat a swan is like eating a dog, or a cat.

...or a hamster or a bunny rabbit!
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trener zolwia:
...or a bunny rabbit!

Bunny... seems like there's not much eating on them. Good-sized rabbit, though, now that's worth the effort :)

Rabbits are kosher in Poland. Once food of the poor, as anybody could breed rabbits in any small backyard, now it's more like a delicacy.

Polonius3:
Anyone got a good rabbit recipe?

Search for 'potrawka z królika'. Easy, and good.
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nott:
Once food of the poor, as anybody could breed rabbits in any small backyard

Yeah, poor rural folk are pretty much the only ones who raise/ hunt to eat bunnies here. Same for other small game like squirrels, possum...
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BUT YOU WILL DIE IF YOU EAT NOTHING BUT RABBIT MEAT!!!!! just a warning ;)

Personally i love the stuff, especially if you shot the rabbit yourself :):) mniam!
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trener zolwia:
Same for other small game like squirrels, possum...


Who'd bother hunting squirrels. A well fed rabbit of a good meaty breed can grow up to 10 kg.

There are no wild rabbits in Poland. What I saw of the kind in the UK is not worth the bother.
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We regularly buy rabbit. It is very delicate meat when roasted.

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nott:
Swans are not food in Poland, to eat a swan is like eating a dog, or a cat.

Yes, I know that, I am a Pole after all. The swans have just become my standing joke, when dealing with foreigners.

On serious note, I don't eat rabbits. It dates from the times when my farther was breeding rabbits and all thirty-odd of them died from some illness within twelve hours.
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nott:
Fact is, Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland. Now hardly anybody is unaware of the weird British custom of tormenting poor creatures just for the sake of it :)


It's the same in Ireland, and I agree.

I can't understand fishing as a 'sport' - if I was going to the bother of catching them, I would want to eat them.
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nott:
Who'd bother hunting squirrels.

No me but some do.
nott:
There are no wild rabbits in Poland.

Really? They're everywhere over here. Poland have squirrels?
nott:
Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland.

A lot of wild fish in Poland streams? Fishing is a big sport like here? Or more just for food?
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trener zolwia:
Poland have squirrels?

perhaps you should read a bit about Poland... ;D
thumbs up !
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pgtx:
perhaps you should read a bit about Poland

I don't see where it says anything about squirrels in P-Land.
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Catch and release is a great way to fish.The great part of fishing is reeling the fish in.Some put up real good fight.So,it's nice to release the fish after giving me pleasure of fighting with it to reel it in.Lots of exhileration and a sense of accomplishment after pulling in one of these fighters.!!!!
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trener zolwia:
nott:There are no wild rabbits in Poland.

Really? They're everywhere over here. Poland have squirrels?


A national pet, practically. Poland is full of pine forests, ideal environment for red squirrels.

To catch a squirrel??? Some really bad boys do it, but they are really really bad. TO EAT a squirrel??? You out of your nuts??? Or something.


trener zolwia:
nott: Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland.

A lot of wild fish in Poland streams? Fishing is a big sport like here? Or more just for food?


Not a lot, in streams... In places, yes. More in lakes. Can't say if it is a big sport, it's not unpopular, so to speak.

Sport, but you don't release them, unless too small, or currently protected. Hm, some poaching, with electricity and explosives. Possibly equally popular :)

I am not a fan, it's all just popular knowledge. You hear stories. Like some time ago I heard stories about hunting boars with dogs and a knife. Near Sanok. I mean I spoke to a man who did it, and his friends confirmed that, under oath. Women too.
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Well, to contrast P-Land with the US, we are overrun with rabbits and squirrels and deers. I call squirrels 'tree rats' as it is a constant battle to keep them from the bird feeders. Sometimes I must pay them protection to keep them away (like the Mob). And nearly every town near a stream or near a game lands has a fish&tackle and hunting shop -sometimes several. Pennsylvania, where I live, is the most hunted state and fishing is very popualr too so there are a lot of these shops around. But I'm not a hunter nor a fisher.
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trener zolwia:
we are overrun with rabbits and squirrels and deers.


Sarna (roe deer) is quite popular in Poland. I was living in the suburbs of Katowice, a fringe of a great industrial complex, and I saw roe's tracks any time I went for a stroll. Some 100 meters from a big settlement of block flats. Wild boars nearby.

Red deer needs more space, I think, so you have to go to the country to meet one, and you better have some help from the warden. Or the locals, of course, there'll be always somebody who somehow knows the best place to shoot, 'never touched a gun in me life, it's illegal'. Not all regions, mind.
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Poland's little red squirrels are on the scrawny side. I'm sure after skinning one you'd get something resemblign an underfed vole or large mosue. Our Michigan squirrels are larger and quite plumb and have brownish-gray fur. Many people shoot and eat them. Quite nice.
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I had a rabbit dinner before and I liked it. It was some kind of stew with heavy cream gravy over mashed potatoes. German restaurants have it on the menu often but not so much in polish restaurants. You can buy it at some delis during the holidays.

trener zolwia:
Yeah, poor rural folk are pretty much the only ones who raise/ hunt to eat bunnies here. Same for other small game like squirrels, possum...


Welcome to Alabama!

trener zolwia:
Poland have squirrels?


Yes, very pretty red ones, unlike the mostly grey "tree rats" we have here :)

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