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I really like a dish called cassoulet with goose and white beans.

OK problem solved. Leave enough of them to breed and a few more for the children to feed. Next year 2nd annual Smoked Goose Festival!

I've heard that one reason there are so many Canada Geese is/are that the meat is actually difficult to eat because it is very greasey almost to the point of being slimey. I work along Hwy 280, just south of Birmingham and there are so many of them that traffic sometimes comes to a halt because the geese are lined up crossing the highway and no one wants to be seen running over them. They are now feeding in the tall grasses along the highway and in the medians and don't even bother to look when they decide it is time to cross the highway. I saw 4-5 of them flying low last fall and they suddenly turned (while still in formation) and flew right into the side of a 12 story building and slid down the side of the building. It was a shock to see that.

I hear that cornbread stuffing works great with both geese and ducks! S P has a promblem the answer is simple, but many will complicate!

Young Canada Geese are delicious,they taste nothing like chicken the have dark meat like duck,roasted goose with dressing is fantastic.
Old geese are like trying to eat a your cowboy boots.
Good Idea let's cull a few of the young ones out.When I was a kid we would have wild goose for Christmas dinner a lot of times.

Sounds to me more like an opportunity than a problem.LOL

In the French Paradox, they stated goose fat contributed to lower cholesteral.

After all, they are Canadian.

You know, if they would just move north a few miles to TN, we could run them over and cook them for dinner legally. But I don't like duck...so I'd give my roadkill to the first taker.

I think they should have a new festival called Duck Days or Duck/Goose Day. You could take turns for a dollar shooting at them. If you kill one, then it could be cooked to order for a small fee. Everybody comes out on this deal. Or if you combined it with the Indian Festival, they could show how shooting bow and arrows really worked for killing game.

Hey there's another good idea....an let's have some of those chefs that cook at the farmers market whip up something with fresh goose liver and goat cheese....you know they can do more with goat cheese than a monkey can with a peanut.

A bit of port wine with the goose livers if moussed improves the taste, as does truffles.

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