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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
If there are so many deer, you would expect the meat to be cheap and plentiful. Does it taste nice?
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The deer that is sold commercially is farm-raised, and therefor not so cheap in the US. In Europe it is much more reasonably priced. In most states in the US it is illegal to sell deer that has been hunted.
Deer meat 'can' be delicious. It depends a lot on what the deer have been feeding on, and that depends a lot upon the local deer hunting season. A young doe that's been feeding on summer corn tastes a whole lot better than an old buck that's been feeding on spruce tree tips. The farm-raised deer have been fed corn and other grains, and have had an abundance of fresh greens and good mineral supplements. They have been penned in large yards so no need to run off fat running away from predators. Very tasty meat.
Personally, I love a venison roast, marinated in red wine, with lots of garlic, roasted onions and potatoes around it... But I like to thread strips of beef fat through the roast with
a larding needle before cooking. Deer meat is VERY lean!
A LOT of deer poaching goes on in rural areas in the US, and when I lived in the Northeast, most of my neighbors had venison in the freezer all year around. These were folks with little money and large families, and the deer they took wasn't for sport.
Stitchawl