Question - When Eating Quail How Does One Avoid Eating The....

[global1]

birdshot?

Here we have a 78 y/o human being that they are having problems getting all the birdshot out of. What about a little quail. When it gets hit with the same ammo and force - it seems to me all that might be left are feathers. If they actually eat the quail - how does one get all the birdshot out? I don't mean to be funny here - but I just don't get it.

[hlthe2b]

1. They often don't....

But given how many bones you have to pick through, whats a few lead pellets? Seriously...

[Dogmudgeon]

2. You customarily dig it out with a knife or a fork ... in the kitchen

Cheney's victim gets the same treatment, although the knives are much more precise, and considerable support equipment is used in the process.

--p!

[jobycom]

3. Well, the bird's dead, so surgery on it is a lot easier.

When the poor little creature is skinned, dismembered, and sliced apart, it's easier toget at the birdshot. Even then youu wind up with an occasional pellet between the teeth. (Not that I eat meat, but those who do.)

With Whittington, they want to keep him alive, so they are more cautious about slicking him up.

Also, the bird is smaller, and usually farther away than Whittington was, so it doesn't get 200 pellets, usually.

[meegbear]

4. You just do your best to get them out ...

I have a friend who is a hunter and one time a group of us were served pheasant soup - made like chicken soup. He warned us that they may be some buckshot in there and 2 people found one in their meat, but it was harmless.

[havocmom]

5. Eat slowly. Chew carefully. (n/t)

[Lasher]

6. You chew carefully

Like when you eat popcorn, you are mindful that there might be a hard kernel in there, so you don't chomp with abandon. Or with oysters, when you watch out for a piece of shell or even a pearl (I found one once while eating oyster). Most pellets come out during dressing and/or cooking of the quail. It's no big thing.

[papau]

7. Usually thrown in a stew - shot falls out (usually - I have bit down on a

few).

[Tin Man]

8. like Whittington, birds have only been "peppered" with lead shot

I often keep an extra shaker of Emril Brand birdshot on the dinner table to "kick it up a notch" - yummy !!! :crazy: