Roadkill. Anyone eat it?

5 sounds deliberate. Is someone killing game for a laugh?

Are you a pheasant plucker?

If it's not too squished I always stop and feel to see if it's still warm.  If so, into the cab it comes.

Unintentionally took out three pheasants in one hit once - easy to do when they're in season.  Needless to say, I stopped to pick them up

Driving through beautiful countryside, and one fluttered in front of me. and I knew I hit it. Looked in the mirror expecting to see feathers,
and the thing spinning on the road.

Not a sign of it so I stopped and went to inspect.
The bloody thing had smashed through the grill, and had it's head stuck in the fan, which was broken off it's mountings.

Of course, it went into the boot, and ended up on my dinner plate!
Gently pan fried in butter, flamed in brandy, and finished with creme fraiche and whole grain mustard.

Delicious.....

See Dozens round here ,Estate has Pheasant hunting looks like a Choice of the Gun or the Road

I worked with an engineer who is retired now but he would pick up dead birds which had hit the powerlines as often as he could, the boot of his car always had dead birds in it. He would often bring what he had cooked up into work and have it for lunch for about a week. All very strange but he was a really likeable chap.

Our little country lane is a bit of a rat run for those coming too and from work. Despite several livery stables and farm vehicles, the townies drive far too fast AND we have lots and lots of deer. Guess what!  The retired butcher in the village has more work than he can handle. I wondered about blacking out the "deer warning" signs, although of course that would be completely illegal.

Blackbarn, are you a butcher? My local butchers is called Blackbarns...

Think I was eating some at Toby Carvery last week

paulypaul - Not a butcher unfortunately. I can paunch, skin and joint a rabbit, and gralloch a deer but that's it.  I need a butcher for the rest.

Give my regards to your butcher. Great name!! - I am a huge fan of proper butchers. 

My username is more prosaic - I have a Sussex barn and it's black!!.

Blackbarn, he's only marginally more expensive than the supermarkets and his meat is amazing and aged so well (Phnar phnar) just brilliant and a pleasure to go there for the customer service too. I wouldn't go anywhere else...

..well aged and well hung!