Will Fly has it, I'm pretty near certain.

In the 50s and 60s my family remained poor but we stopped eating rabbits because of myxy. You were told that it wouldn't make you ill to eat myxy rabbits but to be honest nobody wanted to take the chance. Eating diseased animals has never been popular with agricultural peasants.

Now that there are so many rabbits aroud without the disease they are becoming much more popular again in English villages. Memories of poverty food are usually pretty long (see, for example blackberries in Ireland) but poverty food in England has always had an odd sort of cachet. I don't know why.

I'd give quite a lot for a Pigs Fry Pudding these days but you can't get offal from the buthcers now.

;-)