Posted on 02/13/2023 3:35:55 PM PST by DallasBiff
I might be forced to eat squirrel if the SHTF ever happens. Until then...I’m sticking with Arby’s.
Hunting them takes a shotgun for we older folks when younger used a .22.
Once in awhile we'd smoke them out of a hollow tree...but make sure you're standing away so you can get a clear shot when they exit. Also if you are standing too close they'll have a tendency to just run up your leg and the little buggers bite like a chainsaw.
With the discovery of prions I no longer relish the brains of the squirrels and just eat the bodies. There were several people that contracted C-J disease and the only neural tissue consumed were squirrel brains.
I knew it would be just a short wait before this “oldie but goodie” story would pop up on this thread! 🤣
Healthy forest vermin are quite tasty when cooked right. Most of the time, there is just too much work involved to get them cleaned.
Large “deer rat” sold well in Changi Jap prison camp according to James Clavell’s research.
Rat sold to exchange for.... pork. Buuut in Asian famines, the “pig” many times proved to be... human. The “long pig”. There is the documentation of cannibalism in the the Holodomor- of children.
King Rat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5TNAzVFFSQ
Rat bbq, NYC: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UyTYuHA-Bk8
Chased it over two lawns and a flowerbed before it scooted up a tree and got away.......
I'm gonna start cleaning them and try to cook them........
It is an old joke. You are right snake tastes nothing like chicken. Even turkey does not taste like chicken.
When my dad was a teenager he was out squirrel hunting. This was in the remote Appalachians in the 1930’s. He got shot: he may have fallen asleep, but he was shot in the shoulder, his neck and he lost an ear.
Someone found him bleeding and stumbling along a road and took him to a hospital in Asheville. They treated him and admitted him to the hospital. He was a good looking young man and was popular with the nurses. But after a week or so, he noticed they stopped coming by his room.
He flagged down one of the nurses and asked her why everyone was seemingly avoiding him. She said she guessed he had a right to know. He had developed severe necrosis: his flesh was rotting. The doctors had not been able to locate the necrotic tissue, but the smell was overpowering. That’s why the nurses were avoiding him.
Later in the day my dad flagged her down again. He said, “I’ve been thinking about what you said. Would you do me a favor? My hunting jacket is hanging on the back of the door. Would you look and see if there are 4-5 squirrels in the pocket?”
That was the necrotic tissue.
Hasenpfeffer (with jackrabbit):
https://honest-food.net/hasenpfeffer-recipe-dumplings/
Once upon a time, I knew someone in Arizona who would trap lawn-eating jackrabbits and make hasenpfeffer from them!
Now Arizonans do not have lawns, which makes a lot of sense!!
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