How hard can it be to buy a goat?

[macd]

...we called in at one of the Cape Verdi's...

Ah, the Operatic Archipelago. I once had the pleasure of watching L'apostrophe del Fruttivendolo at Convent Garden.

OK, I'll get me goat...

 

[westhinder]

Ah, the Operatic Archipelago. I once had the pleasure of watching L'apostrophe del Fruttivendolo at Convent Garden.

OK, I'll get me goat...

??

 

[Wandering Star]

Need a goat for companionship and emergency rations, chandlery does'nt stock and can't find one online. Any ideas?

That old goat Parahandy might be ok for companionship (i had my suspicions about him) but i think he'd be too tough and rank to be considered edible even for emergency rations.

 

[Mctavish]

Please don't milk all known goat jokes.

 

[KINGFISHER 9]

You are just being satyrical.

First prize to you sir! ... :encouragement:

 

[johnalison]

First prize to you sir! ... :encouragement:

Thanks very much, Nanny.

 

[alant]

Have you read about Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe?

Mike.

No, why?

 

[mjcoon]

No, why?

[Pertaining to Douglas Adams' Restaurant at the End of the Universe?]

Unfortunately my copy has no contents list and the chapters have no titles, so I cannot easily check... but I believe there is a pig which has a sales patter by which it offers parts of its body to be eaten. It was a memorable scene in the TV adaptation. See, e.g. http://www.sci.fi/~huuhilo/dna2.html

Mike.

 

[TheEcho]

Surely it was a cow? Very mooooving scene.

 

[DownWest]

On the rations front. Our local good eatery used to list goat as that on the portuguese menu, but lamb on the English one. Gotta keep people happy... It was nice hearing from the 'lamb' eaters how good it was and not like the lamb 'back home'.

 

[DJE]

https://youtu.be/YtFWuFc73sU

 

[mjcoon]

Surely it was a cow? Very mooooving scene.

You could be right; the URL I found certainly says "bovine"...

Mike.

 

[Spuddy]

There's form here for portable meals for Scots. There was a pair of them set out to climb Everest by first getting assisted passage to NZ, training and acclimatising there. They kitted themselves out with ex Fire Service garments and bought a sheep at a Nepali village. Nowt for sheep to eat tho above the snowline so they killed it and froze the bits in a snow bank and chewed on sheep lollies as they climbed. Didn't make it obvs and the sheep might have been a goat and other details might be wrong; one of them might have been John Cunningham whose name Jimi might recognise.

 

[jimi]

There's form here for portable meals for Scots. There was a pair of them set out to climb Everest by first getting assisted passage to NZ, training and acclimatising there. They kitted themselves out with ex Fire Service garments and bought a sheep at a Nepali village. Nowt for sheep to eat tho above the snowline so they killed it and froze the bits in a snow bank and chewed on sheep lollies as they climbed. Didn't make it obvs and the sheep might have been a goat and other details might be wrong; one of them might have been John Cunningham whose name Jimi might recognise.

It was Hamish McInnes and John Cunningham on the two man 1953 creagh dhu Everest expedition. They were beaten to it by the Hunt expedition. full account in Cunningham's biography Creagh Dhu climber. It's a cracking read.

 

[alant]

There's form here for portable meals for Scots. There was a pair of them set out to climb Everest by first getting assisted passage to NZ, training and acclimatising there. They kitted themselves out with ex Fire Service garments and bought a sheep at a Nepali village. Nowt for sheep to eat tho above the snowline so they killed it and froze the bits in a snow bank and chewed on sheep lollies as they climbed. Didn't make it obvs and the sheep might have been a goat and other details might be wrong; one of them might have been John Cunningham whose name Jimi might recognise.

Raw?

 

[ChrisRayner]

Also to be found here. https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1955_files/AJ60%201955%2058-61%20MacInnes%20Creagh%20Dhu.pdf

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Also to be found here. https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Co...files/AJ60 1955 58-61 MacInnes Creagh Dhu.pdf

A good read it's many years since I read it, both were exceptional climbers a different age reminds me of the alpine exploits of the likes of Whillans.