Australian Canned Rabbit

[Buckshot Bear]

Australian Canned Rabbit

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-04/canned-rabbit-history-in-south-eastern-australia/103532810

 

 

[Cypress Sun]

Boil for 5 minutes before opening? Sounds like you'll be wearing rabbit also.

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Is there a market for all the fur or leather?

[Pat Riot]

Twice when I was in the Navy they served canned rabbit for dinner.  The bones were still in the meat. It was a nice change from the daily serving of canned roast beef dishes. We sometimes had roast beef 3 times a day. 
- I am not complaining here. Just stating a fact. After eating MREs for a few days, canned roast beef was a godsend comparatively. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Is there a market for all the fur or leather?

 

There was,likely still us.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

There was,likely still us.

You van still find it at Places like Hobby Lobby, Michaels, some leather shops, and a few sewing / fabric stores.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

And millions of not so lucky feet.

[Buckshot Bear]

5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Is there a market for all the fur or leather?

 

Absolutely, it takes around 15 rabbit pelts to make one of our famous Akubra hats.

 

 

https://akubra.com.au/

 

 

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

Rabbit fur felt seems to be a decent hat material.   Not as tight or durable as beaver,  but decent. 

 

https://millandhabs.com/pages/custom-order

 

https://www.bon-clic-bon-genre.us/rabbit-fur-felt-hat.html

[Alpo]

I was reading on Bailey's website, many many years ago. They don't use rabbit. They use South American hare. If their hat just says it's fur felt it's hare. But not rabbit.

 

I did not know the difference, but according to them there is one.

 

I'm glad I proof read.

 

otto said "if their hat just says it's FOR felt, it's HARD".

[Texas Jack Black]

6 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Twice when I was in the Navy they served canned rabbit for dinner.  The bones were still in the meat. It was a nice change from the daily serving of canned roast beef dishes. We sometimes had roast beef 3 times a day. 
- I am not complaining here. Just stating a fact. After eating MREs for a few days, canned roast beef was a godsend comparatively. 

 Better than eating bugs. Rabbit tastes like chicken.

[John Kloehr]

1 hour ago, Texas Jack Black said:

... tastes like chicken.

We in the US tend to think everything tastes like chicken.

 

When KFC opened its first restaurant in Australia, it offered free samples. The most common comment from Aborigines was that it tasted like snake.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

2 hours ago, Texas Jack Black said:

 Better than eating bugs. Rabbit tastes like chicken.

 

No it don't.  It tastes like rabbit.

 

Yuk.  

 

Admittedly, I yam jaded - literally lived on rabbit for an extended time in my teens.  Cooked one once for my son when he was in his early teens ~ he liked it.  I tried a taste.  Yuk.  

[Rip Snorter]

Kinda like me and Spam.  Grandfather had a couple of food stores.  After WWII rationing he was left with Spam that did not sell.  Dad was out of the military and in grad school, not a lot of spare money.  We got Spam, and I ate it in every possible configuration or recipe.  I can't get it past my nose after 7 decades.

[Buckshot Bear]

My Mum used to cook apricot (nectar) rabbit in a crock pot for many many hours, it was incredibly good.

 

There's no way 'canned rabbit' would get past my lips.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I like rabbit.   Has a meaty, slightly gamey taste. Roasted with potatoes and onions,  breaded and fried, stewed.

 

I've had USDA canned pork and canned beef, commercially canned beef (producto de Argentina),  and we've been getting tins of canned chicken breast at the food bank.  Not the best,  but decent.  Can make some pretty darned good meals with it.   I  really enjoy the canned chicken for chicken salad.   I've sometimes used the beef or pork to make potted or deviled meat spread (I should try adding Vegemite to it....hmmmm). I don't see that tinned rabbit would be really all that different. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Ahhh, vegemite encrusted canned rabbit.

[Texas Jack Black]

 Rabbit can become a habit if need be.

[Cypress Sun]

5 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Ahhh, vegemite encrusted canned rabbit.

 

Good on toast or wrist rockets!

[Buckshot Bear]

This is the type of rabbit I like to eat now. 

 

[Pat Riot]

19 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

Kinda like me and Spam.  Grandfather had a couple of food stores.  After WWII rationing he was left with Spam that did not sell.  Dad was out of the military and in grad school, not a lot of spare money.  We got Spam, and I ate it in every possible configuration or recipe.  I can't get it past my nose after 7 decades.

Kind of like me and Spam. I will not eat it…ever. I’d eat grass first. I get a headache from someone frying it, same with fried baloney (balogna).

 

It was nearly 20 years before I could eat sliced roast beef. It was pretty much all we ate aboard ship. Canned roast beef. YUCK!
 

 

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Kind of like me and Spam. I will not eat it…ever. I’d eat grass first. I get a headache from someone frying it, same with fried baloney (balogna).

 

It was nearly 20 years before I could eat sliced roast beef. It was pretty much all we ate aboard ship. Canned roast beef. YUCK!
 

 

 

Ditto on the Span and baloney...you sure we ain't long lost brothers?

[John Kloehr]

21 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

No it don't.  It tastes like rabbit.

 

Yuk.  

 

Admittedly, I yam jaded - literally lived on rabbit for an extended time in my teens.  Cooked one once for my son when he was in his early teens ~ he liked it.  I tried a taste.  Yuk.  

Your comment makes me wonder what suppressed childhood traumas I might have with eggplant and okra. Yuk on both.

[Sedalia Dave]

On 3/4/2024 at 3:52 PM, Alpo said:

I was reading on Bailey's website, many many years ago. They don't use rabbit. They use South American hare. If their hat just says it's fur felt it's hare. But not rabbit.

 

I did not know the difference, but according to them there is one.

 

I'm glad I proof read.

 

otto said "if their hat just says it's FOR felt, it's HARD".

 

 

A hare might look very similar to a rabbit, but they are two very different species, with very different social structures.

[Alpo]

Not the difference between a rabbit and a hare. The difference between rabbit fur and hare fur.

I started to say the difference between rabbit hair and hare hair.

[Sedalia Dave]

Jackrabbits are not rabbits. Despite the name, they are hares.

 

Cool things you should know about jackrabbits

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

Underground mutton, love it...canned no thanks...gotta' put that rabbit in water overnight with some salt & vinegar ...the meat will go white & then ready to cook...I like it in a  crock pot  with apricot nectar....