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Daily Mail - Rat stir fries and owl curries hardly sound like the stuff you would serve your friends for dinner. But surprisingly, Jonathan McGowan’s exotic roadkill dishes are a big hit with his guests. The 44-year-old bachelor has lived on a diet of roadkill for the past 30 years to avoid buying meat from the supermarket. He has shunned pre-packaged meats and instead dined on mice, moles, hedgehogs, pigeons, crows and gulls. The taxidermist from Bournemouth, Dorset, never kills the animals himself but eats only what he finds at the roadside or in woodland. Mr McGowan first got a taste for roadkill at the age of 14 when he cooked a dead adder that he had found. He said: ‘The adder didn’t actually taste very nice – a bit like bacon rind. But it had piqued my curiosity and I wondered what else I could eat and what it would taste like.’ After leaving sixth form college he lived alone and turned to roadkill to save some money on his weekly food bills. Mr McGowan insisted it was better to eat roadkill than meat from shops because of the way it is produced. He said: ‘I guess at the age of 14 I just wanted to be different. But even then I understood that what I was doing was better than eating meat in the shops because of how it was produced. ‘I saw how dirty farm animals were and how unhealthy they were. I was also used to going to the cattle market where the treatment of the animals by the farmers was grotesque. I wasn’t happy about what I saw at all.’

Did you say bachelor?  Get the fuck out!   Absolutely stunned this catch isn’t married.   I mean chicks are always saying they want someone different right?  “Oh I’m so sick of the pigs I meet out at bars, all the finance jerks in their fancy clothes talking about the stock market, everywhere I go it’s the same boring guy.”  Well honey you literally can’t get a much more out of the ordinary guy than Jonathan McGowan the bro who hasn’t eaten anything that wasn’t hit by a car and killed on the highway for the past 30 years.   You want home cooked meals?  Quiet nights at home?  McGowan is your guy.   Like he said nothing screams romance like a large irony marinated wood pigeon with a tall glass of Red.   I can feel you grimacing through the computer screen but one thing I’ve learned is to never knock something before you try it.  That includes a pan roasted squirrel with a nutty marmalade, a lean fox meat cous cous with a hedgehog reduction and some sauteed spinach