SQUIRREL MEAT Outrage over UK supermarket sales

bild.de ^ | 7-31-10 | unattributed

[Kirkwood]

Squirrel is delicious. If I had a last meal, I would ask for squirrel.

[Greg123456]

(From another website)

GOV. HUCKABEE: It, it tastes like squirrel. It’s not the best thing in the world but, you know, when you go squirrel hunting, you got to do something with those things. And part of it was just to say we could do it. I mean, it was a college thing. I mean, but fried squirrel is a Southern delicacy. You got to know that.

[bigbob]

Courtesy Monty Python:

Woman: Well there’s rat cake ... rat sorbet... rat pudding... or strawberry tart.
Man: Strawberry tart?!
Woman: Well it’s got some rat in it.
Man: How much?
Woman: Three, rather a lot really.
Man: ... well, I’ll have a slice without so much rat in it.

[Kirkwood]

Whoever thought that squirrel tastes nutty has never had squirrel. It is similar to rabbit, but a bit sweeter.

[rawhide]

When I see the finished product ready to eat, I do not expect to see a kin to the dead animal lying next to it.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Squirrel dumplins rule.

[Little Bill]

I saw the first Buzzard, a couple of days ago, since I left Idaho. It was eating a dead squirrel, tree rat. No mistaking the naked head.

[BenLurkin]

The nuts are complaining about the stores selling nutty flavored meat.

[Gator113]

I suppose if I were starving I could eat a squirrel to survive.

Until then, I’ll stick to murdering the larger creatures, such as prime rib, steak, hamburgers and all the other dangerous animals.

I am a predator and I am carnivorous, do not mess with my meat.

[dfwgator]

Squirrel, the other white meat.

[smokingfrog]

Mmmmmm...

[calex59]

Ground squirrels are NOT eating squirrels. The gray squirrel is the only Squirrel worth eating in CA, and up north we have plenty of them. I love to eat them and I see nothing wrong with these people selling squirrel meat. Another meat that is over looked in markets is rabbit. Rabbit is as tasty as chicken, it has a different flavor but it is very good.

[martin_fierro]

[Gil4]

I guess they never know when Jed and Jethro are going to get lost in London and wander into their store - gotta be prepared.

[MarineBrat]

A buddy of mine, who’s the most avid hunter I’ve ever met, swears that squirrel gravy is the best gravy ever.

[Age of Reason]

I wish my supermarket would stock it.

I’m pretty sure I’d like it.

Steak and chicken are boring foods.

[mewzilla]

From 1997 and this side of The Pond....

Kentucky Doctors Warn Against a Regional Dish: Squirrels' Brains

Rocky's Revenge...

[Age of Reason]

It is similar to rabbit, but a bit sweeter.

Sounds great. I love rabbit.

[rahbert]

Chances are pretty good that most squirrels eat nuts.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The article is completely misleading (a shocker I know, it's hard to imagine a misleading article appearing in a MSM publication).

Only the gray squirrel is being eaten. Grey squirrels are an invasive species, which has been crowding out the (much smaller) indigenous red squirrel.

Environmentalists fully supported a cull of the Grey squirrel — in order to protect the Red squirrel. The government has helped promote a market for squirrel meat — so that there would be financial incentives for people to hunt Grey squirrels.

Only Grey squirrels are allowed to be hunted — and the Red squirrel is too small to have any market value as meat.

Self-proclaimed “animal rights” activists are at odds with environmentalists on this one. They are completely ignoring the rights of the indigenous Red squirrels, which are being brutally evicted from their habitat.

(BTW, if you substitute “Muslim” for “Grey squirrel”, this story makes an interesting fable.)