Any of y'all ever bacon wrapped one of them sumb*tches?

I mean, when you look at em they just look like an overgrown dove.

Squab is a delicacy in Europe. Tastes like dove

Andrew Dufresne said:

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Any of y'all ever bacon wrapped one of them sumb*tches?

I mean, when you look at em they just look like an overgrown dove.

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I actually was up kicking at one today walking out of a gas station thinking the same thing. Now these city birds I don't know, but the one hanging out in the county I would think should be close.

agreed. tastes just as bad as dove.

Only difference is 2-4 more chromosomes, which oughta pack a little more protein, IMO.

https://pigeonpedia.com/difference-between-dove-and-pigeon/

Rock dove

I've eaten squab several times. Mostly in Mexico, but also sometimes in South Texas around dove fields.

I've had it a few different ways, and it's always been about the same. Pretty decent, especially if you are hungry. I wouldn't turn it down if it was being cooked, but I'm also not going out of my way to get some either.

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Squab is a delicacy in Europe.

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Used to be on the menu here in the US as well. I've had it.
If you've ever looked at old menus, they had all sorts of stuff folks just don't eat much anymore.
Squab, Guinea, Beef Tongue, Rabbit, Duck etc.

It's served all over Tulum. I'm vegetarian but I've tried it and echo the above. Tastes very similar to dove. Paloma Andaluza (stuffed pigeon) is a delicacy.

JustPanda said:

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It's served all over Tulum. I'm vegetarian but I've tried it and echo the above. Tastes very similar to dove. Paloma Andaluza (stuffed pigeon) is a delicacy.

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Not sure this the right place to confess

I've ate squirrel, rat, marmot, etc. When I first moved to CO, I was homeless and lived outta my Jeep. Ate whatever I could find. If the admission is for being a Vegetarian. It's for health reasons. I've gone from 25%+ body fat, pre diabetic, high cholesterol, and honestly pretty depressed to 7.6% body fat, not pre diabetic healthy cholesterol and confident as ever. I don't push it on people, it's just what worked best for me.

Not to mention saved a f ton of money. Meat prices have gone INSANE here.

Edit to add: Gavilan o Paloma by Jose Jose is a JAM. Since we're talking pigeons.

My BIL would shoot them off his grain bins and sell them to Mexicans who described them as "muy rico!" I bet, considering they were grain-finished.

Calling Casey...

He used to guide racing pigeon hunts in Waller.

I've eaten them many times. They cross a dove field, they get shot.

But have you eaten mbewa?

What are some of your favorite vegetarian meals? I'd like to incorporate healthier vegetarian dishes into our diet. I'm down in Costa Rica and meat prices are really high. Plus, I don't like walking into the meat section in most stores and smelling spoiled meat and seeing flies flying around uncovered meat in the refrigerated display section.

Short answer is yes. Pigeon soup in China is common. Is a little unsettling when the head pops up out of the soup but overall was pretty tasty.

I shot some when I was younger and felt like they were the squirrel of the bird world. Couldn't peel the skin off of em with a pry bar. Quit shooting them after that. Maybe I just got a tough one.

I just remembered that the Mexicans sacking grain at Producer's Co-op would sell pigeons to the local taco guy. I watched them deliver him a grain sack of them once. The taco guy would show up in a car with a cooler full of great tacos. We speculated the chicken ones were a blend of pigeon and stray cat based on the texture of the meat.

When we would dive hunt at the co-op we shot and ate them. The grain fed ones taste the same.

At the Producer's in Bryan? If so, when was this? That would have been fun.

Step one: Remove racing band.






You guys are slipping.

I ordered pigeon once at a pretty high-end restaurant in Copenhagen. About four bites in my molars bit down on some lead shot. Waiter apologized and did not charge me for that entree. The first three bites tasted like dove.

Alice and Dulce. Manager was a family friend. Over 20 years ago.

Raised pigeons as a kid. Sold squabs, ate squabs loved how Mama fixed them.

Slightly lighter meat than dove but more tasty!!

Feel that - Chendraui here is the same.

Tonight I made a Spanish rice, quinoa, garlic and corn paella topped w bell pepper, Anaheim pepper, poblanos and jalapeño along w some heirloom tomatoes. Made that separate from a Jalapeño creamed spinach and then add them together and it's next works tasty. Sometimes, I'll pan fry some sweet potato or yucca too.

We do a lot of grilled stuffed tomatoes along w blackened asparagus and a lot of garlic air fried Brussel Sprouts.

We also do a white rice topped w creamed spinach and blocks of paneer cheese and a fried or poached egg. Another favorite is a cashew and raisin stuffing that we make into balls and cook in a tomato based red curry cream sauce.

For breakfast we do a lot of guacamole toast topped w poached egg w sunflower and pumpkin seeds along w some sliced cherry tomatoes.

If you have TVP available (we have a couple brands in MX), I have some great gyro, meatloaf, and taco recipes. I came up w them along w one of my old roommates that was one of the chefs at sweet basil in vail.

No pigeon here, but my dad (born 1940) ate blackbirds growing up. Born as the Great Depression ended, people ate what they could get. My grandmother made blackbird and dumplings. If they were anything like her chicken and dumplings, they were good.

Growing up in the suburbs of DC or on military bases before that in the late 70s and 80s, we would take our bb and pellet guns into the woods all the time. Make a campfire and ate everything from crows to squirrels, and be home when the streetlights came on. It was a different time as we did not do it out need or hunger, but for fun and adventure. The Karens of today would have thrown fits and who knows what laws were broken, I am sure hunting seasons for dove and probably some other animals as well. We did not know any better not being raised in the country or raised around it. We did not shoot things like hawks or eagles or the 'cool' birds and animals. But anything small and susceptible to pellets and bbs was as you say fair game. Of course that meant each other as well since a bb/pellet war often was on the agenda for the day as well.

We used to dove hunt my buddies farm every year, growing up. When we were home from college one Labor Day weekend, we took to his farm like usual. We hammered doves in a sunflower field they planted, then just drove around shooting them off powerlines. We stopped at a grain bin to hammer it with rocks and shoot the pigeons that would come out, pretty often. We decided to get one and cook it the same way we did the doves, when we were done. We gathered at a shop, started on the beers and cleaning doves. We decided to throw a pigeon on there to see how it was. Not much different than the doves, just a tad gamier and bigger. Nevertheless, we didn't attempt at another one.

Just to be clear, squab = baby pigeon (less than 4 weeks old). Squab is good eating when well prepared. Just like pigeon (still very popular in Europe) is good eating when well prepared.

I was ridiculed by people I work with several years ago for saying pigeons are basically city dove!

the banded ones are grain Fed superb!

Umpf….****ing bird snobs. It is all one level above bushmeat anyways.

My friends dad would eat pigeon when we were kids growing up, we would always shoot them in the hay barns and take them to him, he would fry them sometimes and they were good, he made stews with them and all kinds of stuff.. best pigeon was when it was doctored up with all kinds of spices.. better than dove when fried. pigeon stew wasn't bad either

I've eaten a BlueJay.

Like I said, ****ing bushmeat!