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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by MayeulC on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:23AM (#35358582)
It's still done in some French cuisine/hunting practices, though much less common nowadays: "Faisandage", where small game can be left to rot in a relatively controlled way for months: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_de_la_viande#Matu...
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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by EdwardDiego on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @03:21PM (#35361966)
It used to be traditional in English gamebird hunting to "hang them by the neck until the body separated from the head" to age the meat...
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Re:A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Pale... by neonnoodle on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @03:32PM (#35362121)
Relevant quote from the TV show _Newsradio_:

Bill: In the olden days, a country squire would age his pheasants for weeks before they were deemed fit for consumption.

Lisa Miller : In the olden days, people died of ptomaine poisoning and blamed it on ghosts.

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