Need excellent duck for Xmas

[o.versteer]

Afternoon all,

Being Johnny Foreigner in this fine land, I cannot eat the turkey at Christmas like the rest of you, but must insist on duck instead.

Can anyone recommend the best place to get them? I'm thinking properly hand-reared (or whatever...) expensive, farm shop, organic, free range, ultimate kind of thing. If I can't find that I'll get one in Waitrose, but has anyeone got a better idea?

I'm in Milton Keynes but I'm happy to travel, order online, or basically do whatever it takes to achieve birdy nirvana.

[Noger]

http://www.higherfingle.co.uk/index.php?page=shop....

[Puggit]

My butcher in Caversham (Reading) would be able to source it for you.

We've had free-range goose for the past two years (and fantastic roast tatties for 2 years afterwards!), it comes in a cardboard box with pics of geese roaming

[markomah]

Agree with Puggit - forget the duck and go with the goose - free range goose is one of the great culinary delights!

[o.versteer]

Thanks for the tips, I'll check them out - looks like there's a fair few sites out there like the one suggested. I wouldn't mind goose myself, but have the parents over from the old country this year, and they insist on duck, so I've gone along with that for a quiet life.

[Wadeski]

just tell em we grow our ducks f*cking big in England