Venison versus beef

Art, to this day my kids will not eat spaghetti unless it is made with deer meat. They think it taste funny and bland without it.
Ofcourse deer taste differant than beef. All those hormones, genetic alterings, and feed not natural to cattle makes them taste funny. A rancher I used to know never ate the cattle he sold. He had his own herd that the raised and feed natural.
 
couldn't imagine the world w/out deer meat..

First post...but something I could relate to. I was raised on deer meat and (more) never thought twice...25 yrs later...still a farmers daughter and family to raise... my ex still comes over and hunts with me and mine and we stilll enjoy fresh deer meat and then some...he has been a taxidermist for as long as I can remember. All of my kids are bigger than me and no body has health problems.) Thank God. We have had our share of everything from rabbit, squirrel, muskrat ... to elk and bear...but we are all healthy still. just my .02 worth. P.S. We eat plenty of beef too so I don't see any problem.
 
If the holstein is grade A I sure don't want something graded lower:eek:!! The way it was gotten and processed I would pass on either (venison of beef) :barf:. Seriously I prefer beef and our deer processing is waaay more refined.
 
Antelope cleanly shot, not in a hard run prior to being shot, then gutted, skinned right there, washed down right away, then put on ice. Best eating game around. Too many slob hunters spoil the eating for those, who might have become interested in hunting and dining on wild game. I know far too many slob hunters, who have turned off people to hunting and eating wild game, and who have desecrated the animal they were hunting. So quick to kill an animal, living on the earth, for their idea of a sport.:( Wanton waste of meat and life. That's called arrogant. I'm relieved to know that I am not associated with those kind of people anymore, because I've thankfully developed an intolerance to arrogant, self indulgent people.
 
My big question is why soo many people try to make deer taste like something else. Granted, we all grew up eating mostly beef, pork and chicken. I ate a hell of a lot of wild game coming up. More than most. I was poor. Farm boy, duh ofcourse I was poor. If it wasnt for deer, limb rats, rabbit and bream, I would have probably starved. But even with all of that, we still ate more of the big three, so I can see how peoples pallet gets used to that kinda flavor. I like the taste of deer. I think the biggest problem is in the prep. Most folks try to cook it like beef. For those who like deer, thats fine. Deer has little fat, and if you cut a t-bone or a ribeye from deer, its gonna be alot tougher than beef. Just the way it is. Cube it, stew it, grind it and you are good to go. The tenderloins are the exception.
 
I pretty much grew up on "bream"- crappies, blueguill, bass, walleye, northern pike and home butchered chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. We were poor too, and my dad didn't hunt. of course, I didn't know we were actually poor then. I had my first taste of wild game, venison stew, at a nieghbor's house, when I was 12 or so. Loved it.
 
I too grew up poor and didn't know it. My father didn't hunt or fish, so him being from Boston and my mom from Maine, we ate creamed cod (funny how salt cod is now "gourmet" food and runs up to $35/lb.), hot dogs, beans and brown bread. Don't recall tasting wild game until my late teens. Liked most I've tried though.
 
"You all need to quit eating them deer and start eating coon and possum! I am getting overrun with these critters. Skinned and aged aint a damn thing wrong with 'em, now stops your complaining and chew away."
Least that is what my grandma used to say. But once I got the taste of deer meat I never ate another coon, possum or any other burrow dweller.
 
Most of my family members have hunted since young ages, so I was thankfully introduced to venison, rabbit, and butchered chickens at a young age.

But god damn, venison and rabbit are still my two favorite meats.
 
Antelope cleanly shot, not in a hard run prior to being shot, then gutted, skinned right there, washed down right away, then put on ice. Best eating game around. Too many slob hunters spoil the eating for those, who might have become interested in hunting and dining on wild game.
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+1 huntergirl

i like that term "slob hunter"... i have seen plenty of those in my day... i got a deer did you?(its to bad you had to take a bad shot and track it for half a day, now its ruined) i think a lot of the virtue of the taking of any game animal has been lost lately...

"the only poor person is the one who thinks that money is the symbolism of being rich"

cheers
 
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