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Greetings co/ck/s,

I'm on a quest to taste Ortolan, a small bird that is force fed and drowned in booze before being baked and served whole. Traditionally, people put napkins over their faces while eating because decadence is totally embarrassing and God hates it.

The trouble is, buying, selling, and capturing Ortolan is illegal, so the business of preparing these birds in France is super low-key. Does anyone know of someone I could contact to find a place to eat these cuties? How can I go about finding these birds?

>> No.6110223

>carnists

>> No.6110233

>edgefag food

Do they play Linkin Park while eating?

>> No.6110256

>>6110213
CRAAAAAAAAAWLIIIING IN MY SKIIIIIIINN

Seriously,why don't you go eat some sharkfin soup while you're at it,it doesn't have a taste of it's own but it's super expensive and pure torture for the animals,so it has to be good right?

>> No.6110258

I remember a report about ortolan on German TV -as it is illegal, it can only be served at a "private invitation". You might try an actual cooking board like cheftalk.com where you can talk to many professional chefs from all over the world and shitposting is not tolerated.

>> No.6110270

>>6110256
Why the fuck do they toss the shark away, shark steak is awesome

>> No.6110316

i assume you're in the us

just get a fledgling sparrow this summer and prepare it yourself

they're an invasive species and not protected by the government

start a trend

>> No.6110374

>>6110316
well, that is an interesting idea. however, ortolan is used because it's a migratory species, and is therefore able to carry a significant amount of fat on its body. Furthermore, it's not really a good idea to just snatch up wild birds and cook them up due to potential disease. at this point I'm considering raising my own sparrows for fattening and consumption.

>> No.6110386

>>6110213
Normally I'm pretty adventurous with food, but the idea of crunching down on an entire bird is a little revolting. You're not even removing the digestive tract.

>> No.6110453

>>6110374
nearly every species of bird is migratory

>> No.6110455

>>6110453
Wrong.
Utter bullshit.

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6110460

Oh did you just watch that episode of American Dad too? It's a good one.

>> No.6110475

>>6110455
http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/RegulationsPolicies/mbta/mbtandx.html
well here's a small list of only the ones that are protected, but you'll notice almost every type of bird in North America in on there. any bird species that lives in a place that gets cold is going to migrate. sorry you're an idiot.

>> No.6110533

>>6110374
what about humming birds? there is no shortage of them.

>> No.6110535

>>6110533
Don't you fucking dare.

>> No.6110541

>>6110533
Nor any appreciable amount of meat, much less fat

>> No.6110552

>>6110223
>>6110233
>>6110256
I understand the edge factor, but the way Bourdain describes eating Ortolan makes it sound so goddamn delicious.

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6110564

>>6110475
i live in north dakota and chickadees dont migrate.

>> No.6110606

>>6110475
Only in America you cunt. There are more places in the world, it's almost like the size of a planet.
>protip: you live on a planet

>> No.6110639

>>6110475
some of the "migratory" species will end up settling if they can find a good enough food source. like Canada Geese, those fuckers are in CA year round

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6110666

>>6110606
if anon lives in North America, why would he give a shit about the migratory habits of birds in Asia?

>> No.6110668

>>6110639
You remember when they used to be canadian geese?

>> No.6110702

>>6110374
hence fledgling sparrow
nab one of them lil fuckers before they get too nasty. they'll be small and you can throw them on a cycle of an antibiotic and antifungal and call it a day. once you're finished and the lil sucker's cleaned out you're good to go. you could even go a step further and thieve some nestlings, they'd take a little more work but they're still easy to raise. hell, you could grab a couple of neonatal european starlings, they're almost impossible to kill (till you drown them in cognac) and you'd be doing the planet a favor by taking a couple out of the ecosystem

as for this fat business, whatever
i have seen some nonmigratory birds get ridiculously fat. the potential is there. and you're not going to be discerning enough to notice, let's be honest

>> No.6110714

>>6110668
yeah, when I first moved to CA, they'd be mostly gone in the summer and winter, but now they just never leave

>> No.6110752

>>6110564
you've never personally seen it, so it must not happen. that makes total sense
>>6110606
that's why I specified North America, friendo
>>6110639
that's why I said "any bird species that lives in a place that gets cold is going to migrate" which is a simplification of the statement "cold weather lessens the amount of food available to birds and heightens the amount of energy they spend on keeping warm, which makes them migrate" if the conditions are good, the bird is gonna stay there. duh.