Talk:Edible dormouse
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Could anyone provide a citation for the story about Romans raising these things in jars? It's a great little bit of trivia, but it's the sort of information that I find on the internet all the time and can never quite tell if it's true or not. It would help wikipedia's credibility to have citations for crazy facts like this!! Morgan 19:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
- I've got strong doubts about the veracity of the story. After months in this jar, the vessel would be filled with much more feces than dormouse, and I suspect a strong negative impact on taste and nourishing value of the resulting dormouse-shit-snack. AFAIR, dormice were snack food in Roman times, they were grown in boxes or pits, which may have had clay walls, and I know of recipes to bake various mammals (hedgehogs, most notably) in clay crusts. So I suspect that the original poster mixed some facts to create a story which was a bit more exciting, but less true. ;-) -Syzygy 10:15, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
- This site quotes a Roman source which claims "a clay vessel with cavities and niches" as used to keep the Dormice, which sounds more akin to keeping pet hamsters in a cage. - Syzygy 10:30, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
User:Norfolkdumpling Just thought you'd like to know, it is not a type of dormouse. Just like an Eagle Owl isn't a Eagle, the Edible Dormouse isn't a Dormouse. Regards.
- That's incorrect. The Edible Dormouse is a dormouse. Are you thinking of the Spiny Dormouse? Those are thoght to not be dormouse (being muroids instead). --Aranae 14:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Nope, sorry 100% sure its the Glis Glis. User:Norfolkdumpling
- what do you mean? it doesn't belong to the same genus as the common dormouse (genus Muscardinus) but it belongs to the same family, which takes its name from it: 'gliridae', they are relatively close related to each other and to the other species of dormice, belonging to other genera. Plch 14:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Considering we don't have the stomachs to digest bones, like snakes do, did people actually disassemble these tiny morsels? Or.. were they gnawed at like chicken wings? Either way I wouldn't wanna waste my time eating dozens of little things when I could just kill a large animal and eat the good parts.
- I don't see how it's different than eating pigeons or quails, which are relatively common food Plch 14:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I cancelled the following sentence because it doesn't make any sense: 'ghiro' is just the Italian name of the fat dormouse:
"The edible dormouse is also known in Italy as Ghiro, for its capacity of sleeping 20 hours out of 24."
Plch 14:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
