do you remember the last time you had duck?

[Alpo]

Unlike chicken or turkey, duck is not commonly eaten. At least not by me.

 

They had duck fried rice on the TV show just now and that got me thinking about it. I remember having duck at my uncle's house and I was in the 9th grade so that was almost 55 years ago. And I remember about 25 years ago having Peking duck at a Chinese restaurant. And that's it. Twice I've had duck.

 

Have you had it more frequently than that? Or, for that matter, have you ever had it?

[Trailrider #896]

Never had it. My Dad liked to have it occasionally, but that was at a restaurant, never at home.  OTOH, I've had to duck a few times! 

[Subdeacon Joe]

About 25 years ago.  For one of the holidays.

 

We like it, but it's expensive.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Used to eat duck quite often, during season back when I was an active duck hunter.  Actually... I was once a VERY active duck hunter!  

 

Alas, haven't been in over twenty years.  

[Texas Lizard]

7 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Used to eat duck quite often, during season back when I was an active duck hunter.  Actually... I was once a VERY active duck hunter!  

 

Alas, haven't been in over twenty years.  

I guess,  that being a VERY active duck hunter... You did not get very many ducks...

 

Texas Lizard

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

12 minutes ago, Texas Lizard said:

I guess,  that being a VERY active duck hunter... You did not get very many ducks...

 

Texas Lizard

 

I got plenty!  

[Cypress Sun]

 

My brother-in-law is a duck hunter. Almost every holiday that we have spent together at his house he does duck bites on his grill. He cut the duck meat into 2" balls/cubes, marinates them in some kind of semi-spicy sauce, wraps them with bacon and toothpick and put them on the grill. They are delicious, so much so that I have to make myself only eat 8 or 9 of them.

 

He also is a deer, hog and gator hunter. The sausage he makes with the deer and hog are excellent also. The gator tail he does much the same as the duck.

[Texas Lizard]

59 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

I got plenty!  

Did you smell the bottom to see if they were Northern ducks or Southern ducks???

 

Texas Lizard

Edited October 22, 2025 by Texas Lizard

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

3 minutes ago, Texas Lizard said:

Did you small the bottom to see if they were Northern ducks or Southern ducks???

 

Texas Lizard

 

I think I almost kicked the slats outta my bassinet the first time I heard that joke....  

 

AND we had a self-appointed "camp cook" in our group; Bob's specialty was the best danged Duck Stroganoff imaginable - and that was just the beginning of his "kitchen duck magic!"   

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Once about 55 years ago.

 

I really like ducks, just don't like to eat ducks.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I remember the last time i cooked (store baught) duck.

[Texas Lizard]

Peking duck...Chinese wife...

 

Texas Lizard

[Dapper Dave]

I had Peking Duck....24 years ago. Was greasy as all get out. 

[watab kid]

no - not duck , thats been a few years back , but quail yes - last week , 

[Rye Miles #13621]

I had it years ago at a Chinese restaurant. I believe it was called pressed duck. It was okay but not good enough to ever order it again. 

[Eyesa Horg]

It's been a while. For as rare as we go out,did they happen to have duck, we'll order it! Been years though!

[Cypress Sun]

In the late 80's, I lived in an small apartment complex in Largo, Florida. Behind the apartment complex was a retention pond that was about a block long and 50' wide. It had some pretty good bass in it although I wouldn't eat the ones I caught due to the fact that it was a pond that road runoff channeled into it.

 

Between the lake behind the complex and another nearby lake, there were about 100 Muscovy ducks living on both lakes. Muscovy ducks are (IMO) a nasty, messy duck that breeds prolifically. Anyway, a restaurant that abutted the lake at one end went belly up and a Chinese restaurant moved in. Within 2 months, there were no more Muscovy ducks anywhere to be found. I doubt if anyone actually knew what they were eating when they ordered the Peking Duck, or probably any chicken dish, at the Chinese restaurant. I never ate there.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Yep.  Lots.  Growing up, I hunted ducks with my Uncle, who ran a "Duck Club" in the California Sacramento Valley.  Had to be careful to spit out the Shot.  Also, my sweetheart and I are usually at Disney World at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We have a favorite Asian Restaurant we go to for those Holliday meals and most always order Peking Duck.  Most delicious it is too.

[Stump Water]

Once.  At some restaurant on Hilton Head Island.  Don't even remember how it was prepared.

[Three Foot Johnson]

I don't think I've ever had it in a restaurant, but when I was young, I would hunt ducks along a couple local creeks, ponds, and the Missouri river and bring them home to eat.

[Black Angus McPherson]

I've had duck just once.  About 5 years ago visiting my daughter's family in LA she took me and the Mrs. out to eat at a fancy (5-star) restaurant on their dime.  I don't recall the name.  The cheapest thing on the menu was about $60.   The sides would have been less.  Dessert was $35?   We got several things to try them out.  One was a half a duck at about $59 (coulda been more).  It was good, but not $60 good.  If I recall correctly the final bill for three of us was a little shy of $500!  No alcohol included.

 

I don't know who these people are that can afford to eat out like that on a regular basis, but I'd like to have their bank account.

 

Angus

[Texas Maverick]

30 minutes ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

I've had duck just once.  About 5 years ago visiting my daughter's family in LA she took me and the Mrs. out to eat at a fancy (5-star) restaurant on their dime.  I don't recall the name.  The cheapest thing on the menu was about $60.   The sides would have been less.  Dessert was $35?   We got several things to try them out.  One was a half a duck at about $59 (coulda been more).  It was good, but not $60 good.  If I recall correctly the final bill for three of us was a little shy of $500!  No alcohol included.

 

I don't know who these people are that can afford to eat out like that on a regular basis, but I'd like to have their bank account.

 

Angus

I wouldn't want their credit card bill. I bet that is where most of those charges go. Bank account is probably drained paying the credit card bill. 

 

TM

[Texas Maverick]

I used to eat duck a lot in my younger days. Hunted with a friend in Colorado. He had a way of cooking them with his pressure cooker. Made them very tender. I grilled a lot of them and they were good if eaten when warm right off the grill. Just had to use a lot of marinade on them. Also loved, quail, pheasant, grouse, chukar, deer and elk. 

 

TM

[Buckshot Bear]

We have duck from the Chinese restaurant often.

[Eyesa Horg]

3 hours ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

I've had duck just once.  About 5 years ago visiting my daughter's family in LA she took me and the Mrs. out to eat at a fancy (5-star) restaurant on their dime.  I don't recall the name.  The cheapest thing on the menu was about $60.   The sides would have been less.  Dessert was $35?   We got several things to try them out.  One was a half a duck at about $59 (coulda been more).  It was good, but not $60 good.  If I recall correctly the final bill for three of us was a little shy of $500!  No alcohol included.

 

I don't know who these people are that can afford to eat out like that on a regular basis, but I'd like to have their bank account.

 

Angus

I feel your pain. Here's a pic of my anniversary dinner 3 years ago. Always wanted to try King Crab Legs. This cost $68 at a popular restaurant a few miles from Dartmouth College.

And they sucked!! They slit them to cook and they were all dried out and flavorless.

I was expecting a plate full of those honkin' legs you see in pictures!

Edited October 22, 2025 by Eyesa Horg
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[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

yep , it was as nasty as I recalled 

 

  CB 

[watab kid]

i remembered - it was at tom zitters [RIP] i miss him dearly , his house a decade ago wrapped in bacon and cooked on the grill as an 'horssedover' we were going to have pizza later 

[Ozark Huckleberry]

First time I had duck was in a Chinese restaurant in Italy. Was more 'meh' than its price warranted.

 

The second and last time I had duck it was snuggled in between layers made of of a turkey and a chicken at a family Christmas dinner. That time it was pretty good. 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

My Grandfather went threw the depression and knew all to well about having nothing to eat .

He said he had to hunt and kill his food routinely to eat or go hungry. 

Grandpa said everything tast good when your hungry. 

 

Grandpa tought me everything has a right to life and you dont kill to just kill .

If you kill it , You eat it ! 

 

I have eaten about everything that lives in the woods in the Northern United States. 

 

Personally I found Duck kinda greasy and did not care for it as much as Quail or Pigion or must other birds .

 

Rooster 

[Jiminy Cricket]

3 hours ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:

Grandpa tought me everything has a right to life and you dont kill to just kill .

If you kill it , You eat it ! 

I had to eat a badger once because of this rule.  I've never "hunted" a badger since.

 

Cricket

[Alpo]

I've heard people say that - usually self-righteously - many times. But I wonder.

 

You're in the pantry and you see something move out of the corner of your eye. You go over and look and you see a bunch of little rat turds on the floor. You set a trap. The next day as you're walking by the pantry you hear WHAP!!!

 

Gonna have him for supper?

 

Killing something just to be killing it is wrong. I agree. But - I ran over a snake with the lawn mower last summer. Didn't eat it. I used to leave the back door open so the dog could go in and out when she had to go. Walked in the bathroom one day to take a leak and I heard something hiss. There was a possum behind the toilet. Didn't eat him, but I damn sure shot him. Took him out and put him in the trash can at the street. They picked him up a couple days later. I had a raccoon in the attic. Shot him. Did not eat him.

[Jiminy Cricket]

I've started using the humane traps to catch mammalian pests; rats, racoons, opossums, and such, and take them out into the forest to be released.  I walk away from most snakes, but the few I've taken, I've eaten, haven't found any at the house yet.  I do kill any insects I find in or around the house, or my body.  I don't know that I've ever eaten a mosquito, fly, or spider; I consider this self-defense, I guess.  I'm not saying people shouldn't remove pests more permanently, but this is the choice I've made in my house.  I'm not sure if it's related to the badger or not, probably not. 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

Proof you just can't fix stupid  !