Restaurant shut down after roadkill found in kitchen (government, Kentucky, laws)

[All American NYC]

The roadkill was apparently a deer stuffed into a trash can. "There was actually a blood trail they were mopping up behind the garbage can," customer Katie Hopkins said. "There was like a tail, and like a foot and a leg sticking out of the garbage can, and they wheeled it straight back into the kitchen."...the restaurant owners told him they didn't know they were doing anything wrong. "They said they didn't know they weren't allowed to do that.... The owner said he didn't plan to serve the deer to customers—instead he planned to use it to feed his family.

Next week "Chunk O' Skunk.......with rice.

[ovcatto]

Who is the government to tell this small business owner what he can or can't not serve?

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

Who is the government to tell this small business owner what he can or can't not serve?

Obviously that's how the restaurant owner feels. No one is going to tell him what type of meat to serve.

[thecoalman]

To be honest I've had "road kill", where I live a lot deer get hit and there is lot people that will take it. I wouldn't touch anything that wasn't fresh and when you're butchering it you can see the bruising, you just throw that out.

Having said that if I was served that in restaurant I wouldnt be a happy camper.

[ovcatto]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Obviously that's how the restaurant owner feels. No one is going to tell him what type of meat to serve.

Actually, the guy is pleading ignorance.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by ovcatto

Who is the government to tell this small business owner what he can or can't not serve?

As long as he was advertising it as road kill I wouldn't have an issue, he can't do that though and those are the types of laws often railed against. Having said that serving wild game in restaurants isn't allowed just for health reasons, if they allowed it then a lot of "road kill" going to happen.

[Boss]

nothing wrong with venison as long as its cooked right and listed on the menu. But I sure would not want to pay for a angus fillet and then have it replaced with a venison steak.

[freightshaker]

I am in a tractor trailer... When I hit one, you don't want it... All the internals explode... Not very tasty meat..

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by Boss

nothing wrong with venison as long as its cooked right ...

I don't know about the rest of the country but any "wild game" served at a restaurant here has to be farm raised.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by freightshaker

I am in a tractor trailer... When I hit one, you don't want it... All the internals explode... Not very tasty meat..

I hit one in a single axle dump once, it was an older truck with a really think bumper. I hit it square on the bumper right between the frame rails. Pushed the bumper in a little but that deer came off the front of the truck like a ball off a bat. I was traveling maybe 45 to 50 when I hit it and it was going faster than me, good thing there wasn't any walking in the vicinity or another car coming the other way because they would have been screwed.