My First Helping of Canada Goose
When my father called to say a friend of his had pulled up with the carcass of a freshly-killed goose—and that he planned to cook it for family dinner—I was more than a little hesitant
When I told people I was planning to eat a Canada Goose, they looked at me as if I'd said I was roasting a rat for dinner. The wild is ranked down there with the pigeon and the seagull as one of North America's most loathed birds. And for good enough reason. A flock of geese flying in formation might look beautiful from a distance, but these birds cause problems, crowding parks and public space and polluting waterfronts with their waste. Many farmers hate them too. A group of hungry geese searching for seed can trample a newly-planted field in mere minutes, at the idea of forcing on the poor the indignity of eating a Canada Goose.
