The squirrels or the nuts? As far s I'm concerned, no squirrel is edible! When I was pregnant with my first child, my father-in-law used to cook squirrels with my late mother-in-law's lemon chicken (Sicilian) sauce. One taste of it would cause me to lose my supper. It was pregnancy related morning sickness, but I can't bear to smell it, or look at it, to this day! That daughter is now 50+ years old. And eating around all those little pellets left from shooting the squirrel -- no thanks. Ugh!
I still eat feral pig, but did drop the squirrel when I got the chance.
/johnny
The nuts-he says are not fit for human consumption. That’s why the squirrels abound, they collect the nuts to eat.
Never had any squirrel so fancy. Mom always just fried them up. I never had to watch out for pellets either-don’t know how Dad did that. They were awful sparse in the meat department was my objection-same with frog legs-never could warm up to those.
When I got older, and learned that squirrels were considered rodents, I developed a real dislike for the idea of eating them.