Are flamingos edible ?

[Mr_Cheesy]

Wasn't sure whether this belongs here or food and drink...

[alfieblue]

Oh no!!! I know they have their predators ie: if there are not enough fish for say fish eagles etc then they will swoop down and take a flamingo. No doubt they have other predators too.

But. i have to say Mr_Cheesy, I am a vegetarian! And proud of it too. Eating a flamingo would appall me!! Do you mind me asking why are you asking?

[joggerjayne]

Bet they are. I mean, why would they not be?

[Fay Mousse]

I imagine they'd be quite tasty - they don't fly so no over developed muscles to make them tough.

You can have the legs though.

[weeal]

I think theyre eaten in some caribbean countries, especially the tongue - yuk

Can you catch one tho?

[China Doll]

I see no reason why they wouldn't be.

Not sure they'd fit in any of my pans though.

[joggerjayne]

Good point from Fay M (both of her points).

And I bet you get more meat on them than, say, on a duck.

[joggerjayne]

Actually Fay, are u sure they don't fly ??

[Whickerman]

flamingos fly...

http://images.inmagine.com/img/image100/05007/ 120030H.jpg

[China Doll]

Mmmmmm... Spicey flamigo wings would last much longer than chicken ones. Yum.

[Fay Mousse]

Hmmmm - the ones at Dudley Zoo don't. Wonder what they've done to them.

[joggerjayne]

Why would they fly from Dudley Zoo? I mean, where would they go? Birmingham?

x

[Whickerman]

possibly clipped their wings - similar to farmyard geese?

http://www.cornerstonefarm.net/wingdemo.html



Just btw - I reckon flamingos in a chili sauce would be luvverly.

[China Doll]

With or without potato wedges and sour cream?

[AndiFlatland]

I think this rule of thumb might apply here:

Assume anything pink is edible...

Mmm - yummm! Ha ha!

[alfieblue]

Yes ok you have had your laugh!!!! They do fly actually!!! Check your facts. Isnt it about time you all went back to chatterbank!! :o)

[China Doll]

Hey.... I answer a lot of the bug questions in here, I'm allowed to play! ;0P

[alfieblue]

Why do you get a kick out of ridicule???

This is a lovely section - but its come to the point when i and others would not wish to post a question or give a sensible answer because of the likes of u!!!!

I have a sense of humour - but cant you all for once give a sensible answer??

What do you get out of it????

I have tried to ignore the halfwits on this site, but find this beyond belief!!!

Animals n nature is a lovely site, please dont mar it!!!

There are many good people here and we do not need the likes of you!!! Yes, humour and joking is a great thing but keep it to chatterbank - we have our laughs here but not the way you lot were dealing with it!!!

You obviously thought you could have a laugh at my expense when i posted my message!!! So pleased you had an amusing time!!!! Now - off you go to chatterbank and have a good laugh about it!!!!

[weeal]

alfieblue if you are addressing all of us I think that's an unfair comment, we have all answered Mr_cheesey's question in the category it was posted in

[madboutcats]

oh i agree with you alfieblue yes we can all have a laugh but when the questions are slightly ridiculus to begin with..!.any way alfieblue we'll keep to our funny tales of what our beloved pets get up to, or even our wildlife can be daft and those are the posts we like to see and have a laugh at.

[MrLee-Gend]

Apparently theyre rather tasty.
Try this.

Oddly, there is a distinct paucity of flamingo recipes. Upon reflection, it seemed logical that one could take a decent recipe for any waterfowl and simply substitute a flamingo for the bird in question. Here is a recipe for roast flamingo, adapted from a cookbook (Le M�nagier de Paris) dating to the late 14th century:

ROAST SWAN FLAMINGO

Take a swan flamingo and prepare it and put it on to roast until it is all cooked, then make a paste of eggs, as clear as paper, and pour it on the said swan flamingo while turning the spit so that the paste cooks on it, and be careful that no wings or thighs be broken, and put the swan's flamingo's neck as though it were swimming in water, and to keep it in this position, you must put a skewer in its head which will rest between the two wings, passing all other, until it holds the neck firm, and another skewer below the wings, and another between the thighs, and another close to the feet and at each foot three to spread the foot: and when it is well cooked and well gilded with the paste, take out the skewers, except that in the neck, then make a terrace of whole-wheat pastry, which should be thick and strong, and which is one fist thick, made with nice fluting all around, and let it be two feet long, and a foot and a half broad, or a little more, then cook it without boiling, and have it painted green like a grassy meadow, and gild your swan flamingo with a skin of silver, except for about two fingers width around the neck, which is not gilded, and the beak and the feet, then have a flying cloak, which should be of crimson sendal on the inside, and emblazon the top of said cloak with whatever arms you wish, and around the swan flamingo have banners, the sticks two and a half feet long with banners of sendal, emblazon with whatever arms you wish, and put all in a dish the size and shape of the terrace, and present it to whomever you wish.