Based on experience in California, I would treat black bear somewhere between pig and possum or armadillo.
Lots of gravy and biscuits.
/johnny
They are endangered, and the reason is Texans used their fat for frying for so many years. Grab one right before hibernation and that’s grease for the johnnycakes for a year.
Our ancestors didn’t take advantage of the Beeve for butter, for some weird reason. Maybe it was just too hot and the butterfat too thin in the milk?
I keep hearing over and over how tasty croc or alligators are.
One thing is fer sure, the Cajun Country will never starve.
I caught and ate an armadillo in San Saba once. No, I don’t want to hear about all the germs and leprosy.
Hey, maybe you know what lettuce type veggie smells and tastes like skunk. Ick, ick. I was out in the garden this morning picking some of the Ferry-Morse Mesclun mix and smelled a skunk. I picked some more and the smell stayed with me. I took the bucket into the house and still smelled it. As I was rinsing the leaves, one smelled awful! It was a spikey leaf sort of like a thistle. It was a young leaf, about two inches in diameter. I’ve looked on the internet for a picture of something similar but no luck. I went through the names on the seed package (arugula, endive red kale, red and green romaine, salad bowl and lolla rossa lettuce) but still no luck. I tasted it and it tasted like it smelled - like skunk. No, the leaf is nothing like a skunk cabbage. I’m not a botanist so the best I can do in describing the leaf is picture the palm of a hand and fingers with the fingers having spikes on them like thistles do but not the fuzzy stuff. I was thinking maybe an endive but I’ve never known them to smell like skunk.
Sure, I have tons of weeds but I haven’t seen or smelled this thing before so chances are it came in the mesclun seed packet. I may have to throw out those packets and cross Ferry-Morse off my list because it’s really nasty.
Anyone know what it might be?