wild boar

- Wild boar seriously give me the creeps.

- The first time I ever saw one in the flesh was last Saturday when I hit one on the motorway at 130 km/h. As far as I know the animal dusted itself down and ran back into the forest, which would really reinforce the mythology of the beast I have built up in my head.

- Have you ever encountered one? eaten one?

Well, I was called a boar the other day...

everything i know about wild boar i learned from asterix

they look tasty

Yeah, I only know them from that one Duran Duran song.

lool

i saw a dead one in a barn once, when i was young. it scared the christmas out of me. huge teeth, thick wiry black hair, enormous carcass.

have eaten boar burger and it was goooood

Yes, NickB, I've sung that song to myself a few times in the last couple of days

i've eaten one. delicious.

I don't know if this is true because tbh my dad talks a lot of carp but just this weekend he was saying that wild boars are becoming huge pests in the US and ruining crops and stuff. I'm going to do some investigating on this matter.

CARP TALK

Boar is very tasty. Wild numbers seem to be on the increase world wide for whatever reason (possibly climate change, reduction in destruction of habitat, decline in hunting?)

I wonder if they roam round here and if they can be hunted.

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Carp and wild board, how very medieval feast.

(possibly climate change, reduction in destruction of habitat, decline in hunting?)

+ increase in private farming and subsequent escapes?

ledge otm

I heard something...boars near...was it Chernobyl? have been digging up radioactive roots, mushrooms, and eating them, and the animals are slowly getting more poisoned and poisonOUS from the radiation. So they have to be shot and thrown away so that no one tries to eat them. A shame all around.

I had wild boar ragout or something at Lydia Basti-whatsit's casual restaurant place, a couple of years ago. It was good, but I thought it would be somehow...meatier or richer. Still, would not turn down 6 days a week or twice on Sundays.

Sanglier! I had a civet de sanglier in Moustiers Sainte Marie once that I still recall very fondly.

Laurel, I think the radioactive boars are in Germany. I mean I'm sure they're elsewhere too but I think the news about this last summer was this: http://news.discovery.com/animals/radioactive-wild-boars-increase-in-number.html

Yes, my mother heard it on NPR and left me a long rambly voicemail about it a few months ago.

I've only seen javalinas IRL - they are terrible pests, and inedible. A friend of mine went hunting for boar in Georgia or Alabama once and ended up getting tusked in the leg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400ZEgJOVp8

A friend of mine went hunting for boar in Georgia or Alabama once and ended up getting tusked in the leg.

I was told to be wary of them when hiking in Provence; they're fearless and ferocious, apparently. Luckily, they're also delicious.