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Bush meat relates to non-domestic animals. It can be smoked rat, snake and all the way up to primates. It’s more of a West / Central African thing, as opposed to East African. It’s normally illegal as we don’t have the level of control that you may have over there in terms of harvesting...

Gin is sorted - pork pies not so much. Since the age of 12 I always wanted to live in Africa. Blame it on David Attenborough - natural history is amazing :)

I have the memory of a goldfish, though I appreciate your misplaced confidence in me :D

But Deb, we don’t hunt for meat - we grow or buy it - just like everyone else in the world (btw - Tarzan ain’t reality :p ). Bush meat is a delicacy in some countries but rarely consumed by the majority. This is where I shop, as an example of modern Africa - https://tworivers.co.ke/

Drying meat tends to be further of south of the equator and though smoking is popular in some regions, meat tends to be eaten fresh (i.e. immediately after death). Wooden boxes containing fish wrapped in hessian, packed ice worked in Nigeria, but reheating stews 3 times a day was the usual...

I recall my mother describing the process, based on her experience as a kid during during WWII

Pulses can be troublesome, I agree :)

Not liking bacon requires therapy, imo :p

I like the idea of the relationship of size and firmness - a wonderful recipe, for sure :D