[LibFreeOrDie]

Don't eat the brains:

"Squirrel Brains May Be Unsafe":

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/sqbrain.html

"Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and eating squirrel brains"

http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/victim23.html

[yarddog]

The Panama City News Herald had a good series of stories a few years ago about Moonshiners in the Florida Panhandle during the early and mid 20th century.

They interviewed a retired revenuer and one story he told was about one old moonshiner they had caught several times. They had caught him so many times they were friends.

Once the revenuer had a young trainee with him and the old moonshiner asked them for dinner. He said his wife was cooking squirrels and rice. Well the young agent loved squirrels and rice so they agreed.

After they had eaten a good bit the young guy noticed something in his rice and asked about it.

"That is the squirrel's head" was the reply.