How trendy and cute. Actually squirrels have always been eaten especially down South. The fact is if you are really hungry you will eat anything. In NYC during WW II, young boys would catch pigeons and sell them to restaurants for 15 cents each. The customers enjoyed their “chicken cacchitore”. Personally knew an Italian POW in Siberia who survived by catching and eating mice.
This is true I grew up in the South and have eaten many squirrels, I hunted them with pellet rifles, BB guns, 410 gauge shotgun and 22 rifle