Black bandits

[mushka]

I always thought that to say someone was eating crow was a statement of detriment.

 

[Feltwad]

I think the nursery rhyme went {Four and twenty black birds baked in a pie } these were just the breasts of young rooks killed before they left the nest ,later in the breech loading period a small bore rifle came on the scene which was known has a rook rifle which was used to shoot the young rooks has they sat of the branches around the nests before they were strong enough too fly
Feltwad

 

[Cobra6]

I remember a story my grandfather told me about the great blizzard of 1888 in the city of New York. The blizzard was so bad that when they finally started to dig out many of the work horses were frozen standing up in front of their carts. After several days the food started to run-out and the residents couldn't make it out of the city. The area was so cold that hundreds of blackbirds were found scattered dead and dying around the buildings and on top of the snow. My grandfather said that they had to eat the blackbirds for several days until things got back to normal.


Cobra 6

 

[Cobra6]

Be my guest

Well...Maybe in my lifetime I have "eaten a little crow" but not in the physical sense.

Cobra 6

 

[Patocazador]

A friend and I shot crows while in college whenever we could. Usually, people would let us hunt their land for crows when they would refuse permission for anything else. On occasion a homeowner would ask for some of the bag. We gladly gave them all but a few. We had to keep a few to show our wives we hadn't been sitting in a bar or chasing skirts.

I have often wondered how those folks cooked up the crows.

 

[Dale Lilly]

Try 'Rice Birds' in Thailand … cooked without gutting … turn bluish transparent … could not insult my Thai Admiral host. only once. Polecat

 

[Whitworth]

I have eaten crow on many occasions, just figuratively though