I was looking at some
quail today in a supermarket. Although these were full-grown
quail, they looked exactly like miniature
chickens, so small you could cup one in the palm of your hand. I’ve never cooked a quail and I don’t remember having eaten one, but I am curious about them because they’re considered to be somewhat of a
delicacy. So I did a Web search to get more information.
What really surprised me is that there are so many hunting sites listed. I just can’t quite imagine hunting quail. Wouldn’t it be the case that one shot would blow it apart? I can’t see how that would make sense, unless people scrape up the fragments and make burgers out of them. So I’m left with the impression that the whole point to hunting quail must be the thrill of saying,
“He blowed up real good!”
Looking at them today, laying on a bed of ice, I thought they looked like chicks. But we don’t hunt or eat baby chickens.
Or do we?
Shhhh! Forget I asked. It might give someone ideas…like chick on a stick - at McVlad’s.
Note: I've found out since that there are tiny bullets available for hunting quail, but I still think it a very odd thing to do for four mouth-fulls of food, if that.