Is Southern-Fried Squirrel the Answer to KFC's Extraordinary Chicken Shortage?

The Guardian ^ | Morwenna Ferrier

[nickcarraway]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Chick-fil-A and even Popeye’s chicken beats the Colonel hands down.

[Fiji Hill]

With the UK’s biggest purveyor of fried chicken in crisis

Do they eat fried chicken in the UK?

[Cowboy Bob]

I’d go with Nutria!

[Big Red Badger]

The tasty tree rat
On a bed of rice...
Yummy!

[GraceG]

How about they just sell NON-Halal Chicken....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We’ll tell them how to deal with the gray squirrel if they will tell us how to deal with those $#&*@#& starlings.

[KarlInOhio]

Is Southern-Fried Squirrel the Answer to KFC's Extraordinary Chicken Shortage?

How about a bucket of Kentucki Fried Lizard Partes.

[doorgunner69]

Posted before about my fellow Marines from the south that bragged about killing rats and selling them as squirrel in the darker parts of their small towns.

Dunno, but they are both rodents, so once in the stew...............

[blackdog]

Every year I have to spend a few weekends with my pellet rifle plinking the new herd of squirrels seeking new turf / trees. They eat all my fruit, berries, tomatoes, and figs. Not to mention attic damage.

[BradyLS]

I am amazed that KFC is that popular in the UK!

[Liberty Valance]

[Fungi]

Popeye’s? No, no, and NO! I only ate their once to learn never to do it again. That is not fried chicken, it is fried plaster served over chicken. Tasteless and reminiscent of eating fried cardboard, surely you are mistaken. Don’t take this too hard.

[Songcraft]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Nothing the matter with good squirrel if cooked right.

[Aliska]

So cute! At the risk of boring people, these are my squirrel FRiends. The first I think is a gray hybrid, think I saw a pair of smaller less interbred last year. It's name I hope will come to me; it had to do with the kink in its tail IIRC. Taken in April 2003.

The next is what I think is a red squirrel, not sure, a little less pure. I had one with a more golden tail and named it Goldie. Our red squirrels have disappeared now the last few years haven't seen any at all. Taken September 2006.

And the last one for tonight is an example of be careful what you wish for. I made friends with many of them, some get more trusting than others. I had wished I could teach this little black one to knock on the door. This is as close as I got but it sure got my attention. I named it Flag because it had a white tip on it's tail. I either eventually lose them in the street or they disappear. Taken May 2003.

I would never purposely hurt or knowingly eat one.

[piasa]

Grey squirrel legs would be bigger than KFC chicken legs, that’s for sure.

[piasa]

I used to have a great big tomcat that was an ace squirrel hunter. He ignored birds and so on but loved killing, skinning and eating those things. He’d start eating them at the head and just roll that skin back as he went. I’d find the inside-out squirrel hides all over the yard when he found the pickings easy- but when the population was down he’d eat the skin, too.

[higgmeister]

I'd hit that! As a matter of fact, I have many times when I was young.

My first thought is that it is better than Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal.

[higgmeister]

I would never purposely hurt or knowingly eat one.

Would you eat a rabbit?