rabbit stew

[mimififi]

Hi there,
just wondering do people still eat rabbit and is it nice and does it have high nutritional value?

I know that during the war people bred rabbits for food and just wondered if anyone still does.

I still see venison and pheasant and stuff like that in the farm shop so why not rabbit?

cheers
mimi

[aurelia]

I have only ever eaten rabbit in France - they eat a lot of rabbit stew - very tasty but very fiddly with all the tiny bones in the stew.

I think eating rabbit died out here because of all the problem with mixamotosis (no pun inteded)

[WendyS]

We occasionally have a rabbit caserole in winter but I find wild rabbit tends to have a rather "gamey" flavour which I find off-putting. Our butcher sometimes gets non-wild rabbit which is delicious stewed with bacon & vegetables, but I don't know where these rabbits come from.