Just because we read Field & Stream you shouldn't necessarily assume we aren't familar with "The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating" - LOL

"I came across a pile of breasted-out quail carcasses in the parking area." Congrats on a great quail hunt, way to go Chad for using everybit of those birds, I would have done the same with the wings. But how about a big thumbs down and all that for those hunters who left all those carcasses in the parking lot!? As Hunters theres alot we can do to improve our image and to show respect to the game animal, leaving dead animal carcasses laying around in parking lots in plain view is not one of them. Do that work in the field and bring out the good stuff and leave the junk. Scavengers have got to eat also!

I'm certainly not the champion of eating the whole beast, but I value the ideal & I do my part (maybe I can get an honorable mention or something). I've been known to break bones to get the marrow. Fillet fish?--yeah, sometimes but I leave the head on just as often. And the dog really loves all those parts that I can't get my family to eat.

I have to admit, I typically breast out mine. I didn't a couple of times, and the leg meat didn't turn out too well. Maybe I need to give it another try now that Momma's expertise in the kitchen has increased! I do usually keep wings if I know someone has a pup and I keep some feathers for fly tying.

WOW, I'm not exactly sure what I would do if we killed that many quail in a day. I'd probably go to confession!! If that is typical for out by you Chad you can definitely figure on seeing me this fall!!

Yes Del, I can taste those drumsticks as well! Fry them up quicky in a little butter and fresh garlic, yum!

Also brings to mind my Grand Pa. He would carefully remove the liver, heart and gizzard from every game bird he killed, Dove, Quail, Duck and Turkey. He especially loved the hearts, gizzards and livers from doves and quail for breakfast with grits and eggs...

I grew up in a family that worked in a slaughter house, and had the opportunity to try many cuts not usually eaten by Americans. However, it has only been in the last few years that I realized I could do the same with game.

My favorite has to be fresh liver, though tounge is a close second. I haven't tried (wild) kidney yet, but I will with the next big game animal I take. It also occured to me a while back that I was throwing away the intestine, and then buying the very same "natural casings" to stuff sausage, seemed like a real waste and a perfect example of the disconnect modern society can fall into regarding the food on our table.

Love hearts, haven't tried recovering the tongue (I like beef tongue, though), and hate liver and kidney.

When it comes to birds, I'm known to do my share of breasting out. I sometimes feel a bit guilty, but when I cook a whole bird, I see the little pieces end up in the trash after dinner anyway.

However, quail are on exception, and I can't imagine breasting those tasty little devils... Not to judge the guys who did it, except for their thoughtless choice of disposal locations.

By no means is this supposed to be a jab, but have you seen how are neighbors to the south utilize a cow? Wow.
They utilize everything that is edible, and it tastes good too!

"...pulling back the massive door to reveal pretty little pink suckling pigs packed like dead babies into a white plastic tub, young and peaceful as if napping in th soft English sun."

Am I the only one that was tremendously disturbed by that sentence? What kind of hallucinogen is this writer on?

I've booked our table - magic boozer round the corner. Bring yer drinking legs
SBW

I'm all for eating "the whole thing". I'll skin the entire bullfrog not just the legs and I pop the meat out of the pincers of a crawdad.
Now one thing I can't eat whole is squirrel. The body yes, squirrel brains no.

Try as I might, I have trouble making Snow or Canada legs taste like anything but liver or bike tires; not so the breasts--I've got them down to a science, so I'll have to confess that I breast out geese. Don't hit me.

Like to use the deer´s innards, lungs, heart, kidneys, but liver is just too hard and strong to my taste, nothing like a cow´s liver. Or maybe I am not cookint it right, dunno. Brains are specially yummy.

If I would have found that pile of breasted out quail, I probably would have tracked those guys down. I have grown up living off the game that is accessible to me, and i believe that if you kill it, you should use it. Especially because of our low quail #'s here in Kansas. The game is available for us to use, not to take advantage of.