oldbilbo
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Sensitive to the resurgent KISS form of boating, a close friend, environmentalist and fellow forum boater has invited me to consider an economic partnership in the preparation, production and supply of dried/preserved meat products for use aboard. He has access to some volumes of ovis aries, meles meles, Luing and Dexter bos primigenius, and lupus familiaris.
He did mention something about 'a right bitch', but surely he couldn't mean either of these....?
There is also, he tells me, lots of cervidae and oryctolagus cuniculus For my part, one sausage is about as good as any other.... with onion sauce!
Now, he plans to research 'ways and means' to process said 'erbivores ( mostly ) into dried meat sticks, sometimes in skins, sometimes bare.... and he reckons that his access to an echoing and empty stately home's vast kitchens - and herb gardens - will permit a continuous production, if demand takes off. He's muttering about mixing it all together, finding a catchy name like 'Wurst and Worse' or 'Dead Horse', and flogging it.
There are several questions which occur. Among them is 'who is going to do the cooking?', 'what about the EU Regs?', 'what on earth will you call this stuff?' and 'are you as mad as it sounds?'
Then there's shelf - or locker - life. How long, does anyone with experience suggest, would a posse of salamis and/or a gaggle of biltongs last, hung up in a sailing boat heading for warmer climes and cheaper good wine? Is the stuff capable of being sold on eBay - and if not, how should it be disguised? Airmail?
Then there's 'Crowdfunding'. Are there any here who'd want a slice of the action... together with some sliced salami? One might think this a little 'tongue in cheek', but my agronomistique friend assures me he also has occasional access to sus scrofa/domestica and g. gallus domesticus, together with a collection of .22 and larger humane killer guns. He hasn't yet mentioned e. ferus caballus
Now, I'm not at all sure he's not now 'living off-grid' and indulging in activities that once would have earned him a one-way ticket to Oz or, indeed, a neck-stretching party with him as the principal guest, but I'm intrigued.
Wot about you guys?
He did mention something about 'a right bitch', but surely he couldn't mean either of these....?
There is also, he tells me, lots of cervidae and oryctolagus cuniculus For my part, one sausage is about as good as any other.... with onion sauce!
Now, he plans to research 'ways and means' to process said 'erbivores ( mostly ) into dried meat sticks, sometimes in skins, sometimes bare.... and he reckons that his access to an echoing and empty stately home's vast kitchens - and herb gardens - will permit a continuous production, if demand takes off. He's muttering about mixing it all together, finding a catchy name like 'Wurst and Worse' or 'Dead Horse', and flogging it.
There are several questions which occur. Among them is 'who is going to do the cooking?', 'what about the EU Regs?', 'what on earth will you call this stuff?' and 'are you as mad as it sounds?'
Then there's shelf - or locker - life. How long, does anyone with experience suggest, would a posse of salamis and/or a gaggle of biltongs last, hung up in a sailing boat heading for warmer climes and cheaper good wine? Is the stuff capable of being sold on eBay - and if not, how should it be disguised? Airmail?
Then there's 'Crowdfunding'. Are there any here who'd want a slice of the action... together with some sliced salami? One might think this a little 'tongue in cheek', but my agronomistique friend assures me he also has occasional access to sus scrofa/domestica and g. gallus domesticus, together with a collection of .22 and larger humane killer guns. He hasn't yet mentioned e. ferus caballus
Now, I'm not at all sure he's not now 'living off-grid' and indulging in activities that once would have earned him a one-way ticket to Oz or, indeed, a neck-stretching party with him as the principal guest, but I'm intrigued.
Wot about you guys?
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