While in Bavaria 50 years ago, these monster sized rabbits or hares would scare the bejeepers out of us when they jumped out of tall grass during war games; the deer always looked tiny.
Posted on 01/20/2008 6:38:29 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Yonhap News
"Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator's note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health."
Restaurant districts in Pyongyang are featuring rabbit dishes, and attracting customers, advertising it as 'another sweet meat,' spurred by the recent official drive to raise rabbits for food.
Chosun Shinbo, the official newspaper of General Association of Koreans in Japan(pro-North front organization,) reported on Jan. 20, "Among Pyongyang's restaurants, there are quite a few service units which provide various rabbit dishes. These days rabbit stew is as popular as sweet meat stew."
According to the paper, when famine hit during mid 1990's in N. Korea, following the Worker's Party directive "Turn grass into meat," the authorities started to encourage people to raise rabbits to produce meat by feeding grass. Factories, enterprises, schools, military units, and even households have been raising rabbits.
As many people are raising rabbits, Pyongyang city authorities drew up the plan to open restaurants specializing in rabbit meat in each of its district or county since last year. They designated a restaurant complex at Botonggang District as a showcase, after which rabbit meat restaurants began to increase in numbers.
Especially Mundok St. Restaurant at Daesung District is quite popular among customers for its delicious rabbit dishes.
Its best dish is a rabbit stew. To make it, they marinate 2.5 inch slice of rabbit meat, fry it with oil and boil it with gingko, chestnut, and (Chinese) date. People love it, calling it "rabbit health stew."
Kim Hyang-won(age:43), the restaurant's manager, explained, "My restaurant was originally famous for stew dishes such as sweet meat stew with rice, but recently customers like rabbit health stew better than sweet meat dishes."
Park Jin-gook(age:58), its customer, said, "They say you could get sick by having sweet meat stew in the middle of winter, if you are not healthy enough, but with rabbit stew, there is no such problem. It tastes so good that I might have it even in summer(translator's note: summer is the peak season of sweet meat stew.)"
posted: 2008.01.20 10:16
Squirrel is even leaner, I think, but tastes about the same. But tree rat is kind of tough.
I generally used #6, sometimes #5. If the primary target was quail, with rabbit a possible "target of opportunity", I'd use #7 1/2.
I always used a .22. One shot in the head usually.Occasaionally, a whole bunch all up and down the tree.
Vely funny. Hal, Hal, Hal!
I hope they like it with tree bark......
OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?
Thanks for the ping.
Ain't Communism wonderful?
Grand champion rabbits went for $10,000!
While in Bavaria 50 years ago, these monster sized rabbits or hares would scare the bejeepers out of us when they jumped out of tall grass during war games; the deer always looked tiny.
BOY that could serve Chia Pet right there HEYYY MONK I knew you were around honey LOL!
Bump off a woodchuck or two. They are just big rabbits, after all. HEY!!! Maybe we could make a buck by importing hoary rodents into NK.
Not sure I want to start eating rodents (woodchucks) quite yet, but I never try to rule out anything where food is concerned. If it’s clean and cooked properly, and tastes good, then, hey, let’s eat!
There is a rabbit in my yard that jumps around everywhere nibbling the shrubs and leaving huge amounts of droppings. The tracks cover at least a couple hundred feet in each direction. Finally saw the little fellow, he’s mostly white and about the size of a furry softball. All that activity and he would hardly make a sandwich if I caught him.
They're very efficient animals. Almost half the food that they eat ends up as meat (chickens do a bit better than that).
As for making pets of them, I made that mistake with one rabbit. It broke my heart to butcher her, and I could't eat her. With all the rest, though, they were just meat on the hoof. I had no problem either butchering or eating them.
Before I would butcher one, I'd sharpen my knife. The cats learned that when they heard a knife being sharpened, they were in for treats: liver, kidneys, heart. I removed the gall bladder from the liver before throwing it to the cats.
If you hunting just squirrels or rabbits, sure. I've done that. But your primary quarry can fly then a shotgun is necessity. Although I've found that you don't hit a squirrel with very many pellets anyway, since the little furry devils tend to just peak over the branch, once they know you are about.
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