“I caught an owl. There’s going to be dinner tonight. I wonder what it tastes like. I think no worse than chicken.”
Pretty sure he’s going to be disappointed:
For what you may not know is that Charles Darwin had a huge interest in food, and during his time in Cambridge he was the President of the infamous Glutton Club.
The main objective of the club was to seek and eat ‘strange flesh’ and chow down upon the rarest ‘birds and beasts which were before unknown to human palate’.
The club met weekly and was a roaring success. They ate such beautiful birds as the bittern and hawk.
The club eventually came to an abrupt end when a tawny owl was served up.
The meat was disgusting and stringy and was described as, er, “indescribable”.
https://britishfoodhistory.com/2011/07/26/charles-darwin-and-the-owl/
Sheesh, they’re that desperate for supplies are they? Poor owl.
No, they’re just morons and sadists.
