"...taste like barn mouse, add some garlic and cheese, and I'll be shoveling liter like a bobcat in high gear"
Posted on 02/11/2015 8:55:22 AM PST by Rusty0604
Inspectors from the LA County Health Department visited the Metro Supermarket in Temple City on Tuesday, after being informed that the market was selling raccoons as food.
Employees at the market declined to appear on camera, but did show entire raccoons, frozen, bagged, and selling for $9.99 per pound. The employees say raccoon is considered a delicacy in China.
Customer Christina Dow was at the market, and upon seeing the frozen raccoons, filmed the scene on her cell phone. She shared the video on social media.
“The way it’s packaged in the store, it’s so real, and it’s so fresh, and you don’t see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,” Dow said.
Dow also went on to contact the LA County Health Department, who says that selling raccoons as food may indeed be perfectly legal, depending on the origins of the meat.
The market has ceased selling raccoons, since the department’s visit, until it and be reviewed and officially approved.
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Raccoons are nasty disease carriers.
Raccoon Roundworm, and others.
The Chinese eat anything and everything...
The LA Health Department isn’t RACIST, is it?
Dang, we have “Coon hunters” groups around here. The only thing that crawls around in abundance around here that is (usually) not eaten is Possum.
I wish the fascists would butt out of our lives. But then, they DO in the place I now live (KY). :-)
I’ve eaten roasted raccoon before. Tastes nothing like chicken. More like groundhog.
Cooney island hotdogs?
CC
Born on the bayou....
Easily bought on line and the price seemed reasonable. If listening to her discussion, apparently if it was sold “dressed” she shouldn’t have an issue with this (her comparison with Chicken expressions notwithstanding).
1st World Problem
http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/raccoonmeat.html
The OTHER white meat.
I’m almost sure Raccoon is not a protected species, but after this report it may soon be, never let a crisis go to waste.
"...taste like barn mouse, add some garlic and cheese, and I'll be shoveling liter like a bobcat in high gear"
China is a big country. Rural people in the South are known to eat anything and everything. People in the North of China would never touch a raccoon, possum or anything like it. Its also worth noting that any middle-class or educated Chinese in any Chinese city would not touch this stuff either. So eating this “wild” food is really a backward, rural phenomenon.
The USA likes to import these types as immigrants - not just from China, but from most countries.
It was noted that the SARS outbreak in 2003 was traced to someone killing and eating civets.
I take it those people never hunt.
“...The USA likes to import these types as immigrants ...”
No, we don’t.
I don’t know how, there are so many raccoons. But they could find a way. Coyotes were protected in SoCal where my daughter lived, and they killed everyone’s pets, even grabbing dogs being walked on a leash.
*..damn, THAT was funny…….
You would think if they live here they would switch to some other meat, especially at $9.99 lb.
Born on the bayou....
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Yep, that was one of my first thoughts when I saw LA in the title.
Sounds like the makings for some good vittles...
Apparently not. The American public is pretty removed from where their food comes from. Unless of course it is a “bi-colored Carrot grown on the open hillside kissed by the wind and sprinkled by daily dew.”
Hunting (or raising Livestock) is an honest way of approaching the way one would like their food cultivated.
As an aside, I wonder how the live Lobster Tank affects this delicate SoCal flower...
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