Ray Mears' Wild Food
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marty21 said:mrs21 reckoned that wild boar wasn't cooked properly
Actually i thought that too, and also how big was the boar and how crap were the portions being handed out, tiny bits of meat in those rolls
First time i have watched this series, who is the little white haired fella who pinned a note to himself in the pub? Genius
Sir Belchalot
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sheek said:who is the little white haired fella who pinned a note to himself in the pub? Genius
Thought that was a bit odd. The bloke thought he'd eaten non-poisonous shrooms but was able to write down the name of the poisonous ones he'd ingested. More likely he was experimenting with their psychoactive properties when it went a bit wrong
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Ray's paleoethnobotanical mentor - pay attention at the back of the classsheek said:First time i have watched this series, who is the little white haired fella who pinned a note to himself in the pub? Genius
It was the fact that he insisted on writing :-
"<latin name > spp."
You would have thought he might have given the country name and "mushrooms" too !
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/hillman.htm
He has Parkinsons apparently
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goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Sir Belchalot said:Thought that was a bit odd. The bloke thought he'd eaten non-poisonous shrooms but was able to write down the name of the poisonous ones he'd ingested. More likely he was experimenting with their psychoactive properties when it went a bit wrong
He was given the wrong bag and was no expert on mushrooms himself so he could easily have seen the name and imagined them to be non-poisonous. Good job he remembered the name.
story
Gone for a Burton
marty21 said:mrs21 reckoned that wild boar wasn't cooked properly
It did look a bit pink didn't it... But I suppose if it was wild, it matters less than if it was a poor farmed piggy.
((((((farmed piggies))))))))
And
((((((crayfish))))))
They looked liked they were abandoning themselves up to the fire, with their arms outstretched that way. When Ray tasted them and they were delicious, I could almost tatse them myself. I'm now thinking of visiting my pal who lives by a stream, to see if we can catch and eat some crayfish. There's loads of watercress there, so we could make a crayfish salad.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
madzone said:He seems a lot happier & perkier in this series. Wonder if he's found some source of natural prozac?
I thought that too...maybe he's just more regular.
King Biscuit Time
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Sir Belchalot said:Thought that was a bit odd. The bloke thought he'd eaten non-poisonous shrooms but was able to write down the name of the poisonous ones he'd ingested. More likely he was experimenting with their psychoactive properties when it went a bit wrong
It was the 1/2 a Guinness that did him in, clearly!
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Some fungi react very badly with alcohol.King Biscuit Time said:
King Biscuit Time
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gentlegreen said:
I know this from personal experience
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Ray Mears is brilliant. Been waiting for him to combine bush craft with archaeo-botanics in the UK for years. The academic is a bit hard to understand and slightly lacking in charisma, but it's nice to see people on the telly with actual skill and knowledge rather than "professional" presenters. Having spent years taking environmental samples on digs it's great to see how Mears etc al's knowledge added to what can be learned from just finding what remains in the archaeological record.
janeb
WW Tyrion do?
sojourner said:I think Ray's asexual. He expends far too much energy making A frames and roasting boar to think about shagging.
Anyway, have you seen the kip of his fingernails? Ewww
Yes I have but it doesn't bother me, I like my men to have more of the wilderness than the beauty parlour about them
Suspect you're right about the asexuality however, he strikes me as being a not very grown up boy scout - maybe I can teach him the pleasures of the flesh, during a thunderstorm, in the woods.
<has to go and have a little lie down, come over all peculiar
>Fine if you don't mind an itchy fanny with some undisclosed bacterial infection I guessjaneb said:Yes I have but it doesn't bother me, I like my men to have more of the wilderness than the beauty parlour about them
You could always just go straight to the willy part, but you don't know how clean that is do you?! gentlegreen said:Ray's paleoethnobotanical mentor - pay attention at the back of the class
It was the fact that he insisted on writing :-
"<latin name > spp."
You would have thought he might have given the country name and "mushrooms" too !
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/hillman.htm
He has Parkinsons apparently
.
oooh i dont even know what that means, i shall just think of him as a wise forest dwelling gnome/man instead. I have to say looking at the mushies i could have murdered a mushroom omelette they all looked really yummy, even the scary one that went like stilton when air hit oooh scary biscuits.
I have also decided from now on to pin notes to my chest with what i have ingested just in case
That was just another scale of class
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
The way Gordon nibbles cracks me up
catinthehat
Failed VK = Replicant
Ode to Ray
Wild thing
You can make a hut from string
A tasty lunch from a Woodpeckers wing
Groovy
Wild thing
With your shorts and fishing skills
Make me a blouse with the leftover gills
Light a fire just by rubbing your knees
Make jam from ferrets and honey from bees
etc
Wild thing
You can make a hut from string
A tasty lunch from a Woodpeckers wing
Groovy
Wild thing
With your shorts and fishing skills
Make me a blouse with the leftover gills
Light a fire just by rubbing your knees
Make jam from ferrets and honey from bees
etc
story
Gone for a Burton
ringo said:
What's your definition of charismaCharisma is:
-is "the ability to develop or inspire in others an ideological commitment to a particular point of view." (Frank 1993, p.383)
www.latinoleadership.org/research/library/dictionary.html
-a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
-The word charisma (from the Greek word kharisma or gift), is often used in this form to describe an ability to charm or influence people.
The man has it in spades, IMO.
Gordon is
sojourner said:
yes...and jus because you work or live in woodlands does not mean you cannot eat well...most dishes that are aspired to nowadays originate in a more peasant class of culinary experimentation.<<<that's the relationship of which you ask.
northernhord
Active Member
I used to work with a guy on this environmental project who worked for Lancashire wildlife, this guy had an incredible amount of knowledge about edible wild stuff, I took him to this stretch of disused railway line which was part of my job and the fucka was pickin all sorts up and munching it
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