BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?

Subject: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:17 AM

I heard on UK radio that there was (is?) a cafe in Wyoming that rejoiced in this name. You take along the meat and they do a fry-up for you.

Their slogan (it just has to be real - please)

From Your Grille to Ours

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:38 AM

Wrong State, but there's This One

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 11:50 AM

I did trawl the net for it and found a lot of sites that were listed and looked promising but did not give me any text that the search indicated. Most were like this - called Road Kill but specifically not offering the service. T-shirts etc mostly.

I was told recently that the law in the UK is specific - if you kill (say) a pheasant it is illegal to bag it. But the guy behind can!!

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM

In Tuba City, Arizona many years ago, the Navajo nation built an animal control center on a major crossroads there. Some time later they added a fast food restaurant on the same property to provide some income to the tribe and jobs for some of their youth. The combination made for some hilarious comments from passers by.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: NH Dave
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 12:35 PM

There are numerous Road Kill Cafes around the USA, just as there are one or two Hard Rock venues around the world. The name or theme is carried over to their menu which lists such dellicacies as Flambe of Bambi, etc. I doubt that they'd grill up something that you recently hit due to Sanitation laws over here. You know, must wash hands after leaving the loo, things you would never think of on your own.

Dave

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From: Deckman
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:17 PM

One of my friends has published "The Road Kill Cookbook!" It's pretty good, too. CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

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From: open mike
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:27 PM

here is one menu: http://www.funnyjunk.com/p/roadkill_grill-gif.html

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 02:06 PM

I believe there is one in Greenville, Maine on the shores of Moosehead Lake. It was there 3 years ago but I have not been back through that area since then. SOL ZELLER

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From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 02:08 PM

Nothin' like a Slab of Lab on a cold winter day.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Alice
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 03:54 PM

I have eaten at The Road Kill Cafe in McLeod, Montana. Good burgers. The road kill is only in the name.
The cafe is about the only building at McLeod.
I'll see if I can find a picture.
Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Alice
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 04:06 PM

Here is a link to the page about the history of McLeod, Montana, and mention of the Road Kill Cafe.
Click here

It looks like the Road Kill Cafe in McLeod is up for sale.
Click here
only $255,000.

A review from an Absarokee web site,
(by the way, lots of celebrities have ranches on the Boulder, including Brooke Shields):

The Road Kill Cafe

in McLeod is an hour and a half away from Absarokee, but it's worth the trip. Especially after a day on the dandy little Big Timber Golf Course. The Road Kill is one of the best roadside attractions in Montana, tucked around a bend of the Boulder River. Near by Michael Keaton, Tom Brokaw and Tom McGuane have ranches and occasionally they'll pop in for a game of pool and a beverage. There's too many Jimmy Buffet songs on the juke (McGuane's married to Buffet's sister) but there's still a good mix of music that isn't all country and there's fine selection of bar treats (buffalo wings, philly steak sandwiches) to wash down with a good selection of Montana brewery ales and beers.

Alice

ps I would not agree with the reviewer that The Road Kill is one of the best roadside attractions in Montana. I'd say it is pretty near the bottom of the list of roadside attractions.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 04:22 PM

I heard that programme too... bloody funny even if it's not true!
Trouble is, being American, it could well be based in fact!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 06:06 PM

To the tune of "Red Rose Cafe":

Down at the road kill cafe on the highway
There by the town that they call (insert town name of choice here).....

Further contributions welcome.

Cheers
JennieG in Oz where we have road kill too

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From: Auggie
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 06:11 PM

No such thing as "too many Jimmy Buffet songs on the jukebox"

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From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 06:25 PM

In Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and other states you can keep any animal you hit on the road, if you want to. Of course, you have to tell the police so that records can be kept, but then again, if you hit a deer or moose or some such you'll want to file a report on your wrecked car anyway.

Back in his day of Flaming Catholicism, my very own brother left for his 2 a.m. stint of "Perpetual Adoration" and ran right smack into a herd of hogs being loaded into a dark truck. It was legal -- they weren't hog rustlers -- but dumb. My bro's car was wrecked, and of course we told him that we could still smell the pig sh*t on him months later ("Whoa! Stand downwind, would ya?").

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From: Bobert
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 06:53 PM

Whew! I thought this thread was about my neighbors...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 07:04 PM

Today's Special at the Road Kill Cafe include:


Spooned Coon
Rigamortis Tortoise
Smear Of Deer

Those are just a few of our favorites....*EG*

My Mother-In-Law, on the other hand, makes a mean possum (Shoots 'em right offa her porch)stew...or so I've been told.........

Michelle

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From: GUEST,Mr Red at library
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 07:27 AM

LOL

Mouse Moose?
Moose Jaw?
Elk & Whelk?

Does you Mom-in-Law "rabbit" much?

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 08:01 AM

JennieG - remember the Road Kill Cafe that was at a few Festivals - Jamberoo & maybe the National a few years back. They traded under lovely colourful windsock/kite thingies - a very decorative location. The food was disapointing - it was just normal takeaway!! False advertising - I was expecting something more exciting.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM

There's no reason not to eat roadkill. In the past, many states in the US would use such meat to supplement the meat in prisons. When you dress it out, use only the parts that aren't mangled.

Of course, a true pavement pancake is a different story.

Another true story:

It was hunting season in Ohio, and a woman came in to use the phone at the library where I was working. We let her -- she'd just smacked into a deer with her pickup and wanted to call the sheriff.

A deputy sheriff came and found the deer laying in the ditch. The deputy did what had to be done.

Some days later the woman came in again and I learned what happened.

After the deputy had shot the deer, she asked what to do. The deputy -- another woman -- conferred with her and sent our library patron up the to hardware where she obtained a hunting license and a deer tag. They tagged the deer, loaded it into the pickup, and drove to the local Fish and Game Check Station. The woman took the deer to a local butcher, who over the next couple of days prepared and wrapped about a hundred pounds of good meat from it.

Just after she'd finished loading the packages of meat into the freezer, her husband came home. From his deer hunting trip with his friend. For the sixth year in a row, neither he nor his buddies had shot a deer. She just kept quiet and sent him down to get some meat from the freezer for dinner....

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 09:04 AM

Alas, the Roadkill Cafe in "Greenville, Maine on the shores of Moosehead Lake," is no more. It's sad demise can possibly be attributed to the nation-wide fad of low-carb dieting, roadkill often being impregnated with asphalt...

They had a most remarkable menu!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: GUEST,Norton1
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 05:08 PM

I have a copy of the Roadkill Cookbook, "Yellow Line Yummies" - and it's for real. Ate some of those victuals myself in my poorer days.

Ate at the cafe in McLeod also. I'd agree it wasn't great fare - but not bad as far as it goes. And certainly not the high point of my visit to the state.

Steve

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From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 04 - 05:16 PM

I have a plastic coffee mug from "Carl's Roadkill Cafe", which I 'think' was in Kentucky or Ohio....it's neat gimmick to get people to stop.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Gurney
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 03:20 AM

There's one in South Island NZ. Their main dish is Possum, not the one Americans know, but a Aussie marsupial which is ruining the bush in NZ. I once ate one. It was gamey and tough. Less fat than KFC, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 09:31 AM

An African-American friend from DC got into Soul Food back when Soul Food was new. Ron wanted to try possum (US opossum). Being legally blind (and an excellent cook) he talked my brother into shooting one for him and my mother into letting him cook it.

Ron gave the directions and the possum was prepared with onions, yams, and such. Roasted for a couple of hours, then served.

The smell was, to say the least, off-putting. The meal was extremely greasy. They finally deposited the whole thing in the trash and ordered pizza.

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 04:32 PM

There is (was) one in Sturgis, South Dakota. I was there this last August before the notorious Black Hills Motorcycle Rally commenced and it was closed and had a "for sale" sign. I avoided Sturgis during "rally week" so I don't know if it was closed, closed or just closed during non-rally days.

I've eaten "grilled" turkey and deer but the turkey I hit and the deer was dressed out by a friend of mine within minutes of it's demise. Had to throw away about half of the turkey due to huge quantities of sub-dermal blood because of massive blunt-force trauma.

CB

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From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 04:46 PM

I can't resist posting a song by John Flynn

Road Kill Cafe

Don't touch that brake.
Don't turn that wheel.
The life you save,
Could be our next meal.
Four-legged critters,
Make tasty dinners.
When something splatters,
We'll fix a platter.

CHO:
At the Road Kill Cafe,
We'll do it up your way,
We'll cook it fresh,
Right from your grille to ours.
Just scrape it off the tire.
We'll toss it on the fire.
Come chew the fat at the Road Kill Cafe.

A gentle swerve,
Makes a squirrel hors d'oeuvre.
You just can't beat a,
Fresh racoon pita.
That mangled Chevy,
Parked by the door.
Meant Bambi Parmesean,
For thirty-four. CHO:

Tag:
We love it when you,
Run down our menu,
Come chew the fat at the Road Kill Cafe.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 10:51 PM

This site has wild game recipes and is sponsored by Field and Stream and Purina. From that partnership one can make several possible assumptions.

Be sure scent glands are removed or the meat will be inedible. Then you have to marinade or otherwise tone-down the gaminess of a lot of wild meat. Soak in something (milk, vinegar, wine?), or as in a couple of recipes at that site, simmer the meat and change the water then grill it.

I used to pick up road kill to skin out for their skins and pelts for my work as a park naturalist, and was collecting information for an article (that I never got around to finishing). I gave up skinning them when I learned more about some of the diseases they carry.

SRS

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From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 11:57 PM

Soak venison in milk all day. Best marinade in the world for it. Keep it basted as you cook it or it'll dry out in a flash, and don't overcook any game meat.

Cook up a faux Cumbeland dressing of horseradish, port wine, butter, and red currant jelly. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

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From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 01:37 PM

My cousin in Tamworth - in his younger married days - killed a swan and put it on the Rayburn (UK coal cooking/home heating range) for three days - he had to decant the water each day to get rid of the grease. He reckoned it was still greasy and gamey.

Ollie refused to eat the stuff. Not that she is a Royalist or anything. (all UK swans are the property of the Queen)

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From: JennieG
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 01:57 AM

Geez Mr Red, I grew up in Tamworth but I don't think I know your cousin! Hang on - you mean there's another Tamworth? Not just the one in New South Wales, Oz?

Cheers
JennieG - born and bred in Tamworth NSW Oz and proud of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: NH Dave
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 02:21 AM

Venison is a really lean meat and benefits from liberal larding - threading strips of another animal fat through it - before cooking. These strips cook away to very little, and help to moisted the meat as they do. (My first English professor had also written a Venison cookbook for the hunters in our area of the northeast.) Oddly enough, she got most of her dressing and butchering secrets from one of our Math professors who also dabbled in home brewing and distilling (hard) cider for fun and profit. Oddly enough, although they have both passed away, her book, The Venison Cookbook, by A A Gorton is still available in paperback, and caries a 2003 publishing date. I guess her daughter must have renewed the copyright.

As an aside, generally when a motorist hits any large game like deer or moose, the car is so badly damaged, to say nothing of the occupants, that the game wardens or police at the scene usually award the recently departed animal to the owner of the vehicle, as partial recompense for the damage it caused to the vehicle. Hitting a deer usually requires the replacement of much of the front end, and hitting a moose at highway speeds can require a whole new car!

Dave

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From: robomatic
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 08:17 AM

I made a moose lasagne once. Turned out pretty good but then there was all this cheese larding it up.

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From: MaineDog
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 08:41 AM

I ate at the Road Kill Cafe in Greenville several years ago. It was quite an experience. The waitress sauntered over and sat down at the table with us saying something like, "What the *** are you doin' here, bud?", and it went on like that. The food was good once you removed the plastic tails, feet, etc, provided by the chef for our entertainment.
Every ten minutes or so they played a recording of a truck skidding into someone's meal, complete with broken glass and screams.
They put the condiments on tha table in their original containers, and I discovered several new ones that I still like.
MD

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From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 09:37 AM

JennieG

Do you pronounce it Tam'th too? Is the best thing there the road leading to Birmingham (judged more desireable and that is very telling)? Does it have a castle? Are there a district names you would recognise if you heard them - like Wincut ( spelled Wilnecote). If you are visiting UK and feel the urge to see the other Tam'th - keep going till you reach Lichfield (the UK one)

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From: JennyO
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 10:52 AM

Speaking as another aussie, I don't pronounce it Tam'th, although maybe the locals do. What Tamworth N.S.W. is best known for is its country music festival here

Subject: RE: BS: Road Kill cafe - is it true?
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 01:47 AM

There is, or was, a Roadkill Cafe in Windsor (Ontario) as you approached the Ambassador Bridge. Never had time to stop & check it out.

Road-ready flatsnacks!
Anything dead on bread!