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Can You Eat Raccoon? Absolutely
www.themeateater.com ^ | April 25, 2022 | Wade Truong

Posted on 08/27/2025 8:41:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/27/2025 8:41:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I hear you can also

eat beaver ...

2 posted on 08/27/2025 8:43:11 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Funny.


3 posted on 08/27/2025 8:44:49 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Red Badger

Why ,they have hands ,LOL


4 posted on 08/27/2025 8:45:37 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Red Badger

Most definitely. I do a good bit of “catch-n-cook” in the woods during cooler weather. A young raccoon with Saza seasoning mix smoked over an oak fire is mighty fine dining! Just make sure to get the glands out of it or ya may as well eat what comes out the end of that raccoon. d;^)


5 posted on 08/27/2025 8:45:50 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: Red Badger

I have eaten Raccoon a couple of times at a local gun club fund raiser.

It is good barbecued .


6 posted on 08/27/2025 8:46:10 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Red Badger

My grandfather made a lot of money with cook
Skin pelts in the 40’s.
My grandmother was known through out the county as making the best BBQ raccoon.


7 posted on 08/27/2025 8:46:41 AM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Red Badger

I have to ask...

Did it taste like chicken?


8 posted on 08/27/2025 8:48:17 AM PDT by crusher2013
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To: NorthMountain

There is a recipe on Freerepublic for Monica’s Beaver-Kabobs


9 posted on 08/27/2025 8:48:28 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Red Badger

Rural people in Mexico eat mice. They hunt them at night when thousands of the critters are active. Black flies steamed in banana leaves are popular in a third world country, but I don’t remember which one. Saw both on PBS program years ago.


10 posted on 08/27/2025 8:49:37 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: NorthMountain

Old Yeller. Good story.


11 posted on 08/27/2025 8:51:43 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Flaming Conservative

people in maine eat roasted june bugs- claime they are good- not gonna try it though-


12 posted on 08/27/2025 8:54:13 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: NorthMountain

Practically any animal is edible.
In US people eat squirrels, woodchucks, nutria, armadillo, rattlesnake, turtle, crow, alligator, now even pythons.
Abroad they also eat donkeys, horses and camels, bats, cats and dogs.
Whales are eaten is some countries.
Insects have a history of being eaten in places.
Even rats are supposedly edible.


13 posted on 08/27/2025 8:56:15 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Red Badger

>> ...Do I want to be the guy living in a basement apartment, killing and eating raccoons? Since my roommate and I had already become the guys living in a basement trapping and eating raccoons...

ROFL! Aside from the culinary intrigue, this is interesting and funny story telling. Thank you!


14 posted on 08/27/2025 8:59:58 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Red Badger

Tastes like wild hickory nuts.


15 posted on 08/27/2025 9:00:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

When I was a teenager living in Mississippi, I ate raccoon. Delicious. Turtle legs are very tasty too.


16 posted on 08/27/2025 9:05:36 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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I heard a story years ago about some guy in SE Michigan who would trap raccoons all week and marinate them in his special secret marinade, and then early on Saturday mornings he’d take them to some grocery store in town and sell them in the parking lot.

When he got to the grocery store, there were always people lined-up waiting to buy them.


17 posted on 08/27/2025 9:06:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Raccoon meat tastes a bit like pork. Tree pigs they are!


18 posted on 08/27/2025 9:08:11 AM PDT by CFW
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To: Flaming Conservative

Mexico also goes nuts for ant larvae, agave worms, grasshoppers, iguanas too.

This guy writes like a sissy millennial. Just eat what you kill bro. I have had raccoon it’s pretty tasty especially when a redheaded Cajun queen is making it for you after a nights hunt and a morning of vigorous activity on your return. Nutria is also good again by same girl.

I have had capybara and guinea pigs in South America, squirrel is old hat we ate rabbits and squirrel we shot in Scouts without even a second thought. I have had dog in SE Asia and Korea, a couple of species of cats there too. Bobcat and coyote have been turned into BBQ and carnitas here in Texas, same for javalina and countless feral hogs. Amarillo, rattlesnake have been in chilli and sausage the latter is high end fare at a bistro in Ft. Worth where they charge $25+ a plate for appetizer sized rattlesnake and rabbit sausages. I just killem and fryem when the opportunity presents itself. The list of game while working in Africa is too numerous to list but bushmeat of multiple species of primates made the menu its similar to pork and so is human for that matter. You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from bushmeat human nor wild boar having seen all of them raw I guarantee without DNA testing you can’t tell once it cut up to meat form.

Don’t be a sissyboy God literally told Peter three times in a row “kill and eat” that’s good enough for me. Every animal on this planet is ours to use and eat that’s exactly what was told to Peter specifically. Even the weak minded one’s who still think some animals are unclean no that’s why God told Peter three times what he has made clean is clean after Jesus came to cleanse us of sin. Period full stop.

God’s word.

ACTS 10,

On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,

11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.

14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.


19 posted on 08/27/2025 9:08:31 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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Biga$$ swamp rats are good eating same for South American even larger swamp rats. Ask a Cajun to cook some.for you it will be fine eating.


20 posted on 08/27/2025 9:10:29 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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