Gareth:  The partridge I want is _ one _ which has eaten wild food and lived a wild life , has struggled , hoped and dreamed , has sown wild oats , has tasted the bitter disappointment of middle age , and knows what it is to eyeball The Grim Reaper in the watches of the night ; the partridge sunk in the veil of years , with all the flavors of its rich eventful life captured in its texture , it 's juice , its very flesh . I do not want this callow , milk - fed , adolescent , uncouth , undeveloped wodge of protein . I do n't believe in eating virgins .