Deer meat can be pretty yucky depending on what they’re eating. We’ve had some deer meat that was only good for jerky and then it was tolerable only after soaking in teriyaki and drying it.
Deer meat is best when it is ground up and mixed with pork for breakfast sausages
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I used to work with a bunch of deer hunters. They would bring in deer meat to the fire house and force the rest of us to eat it all the time. I suspected alternately that they were saving the good cuts for themselves, or cleaning Bambi from last year out the freezer. But nothing makes me start to gag more than another firefighter announcing that we would be eating venison for dinner.
And unlike a meal made from some hamburger from the grocery store we all felt obligated to praise the hunter for the meal he prepared no matter how disgusting that it was.
You obviously haven’t had my mom’s deer sauce piquant. She can hunt them, too.