Squirrel? This has got to be a joke! (Right?)

[Home & Garden Witch]

I do a "meal plan" and I use a different recipe site every week, for variety and today I found THIS (http://maindish.allrecipes.com/az/SlwCkdSqirrl.asp)!!

I'm sure it's a joke...but honestly!! What goes through some peoples minds?

[GEBS]

I used to have a neighbor that hunted squirrel. I'm not so sure that's a joke.

[Sleet]

Squirrel are indeed edible. Personally if I'm going to eat game animals I prefer venison and duck, but people can and do eat them.

[Home & Garden Witch]

Wow; I had no idea it was actually something people eat
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I would also prefer venison...mmm...now I'm hungry for venison!

[Home & Garden Witch]

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I have no intentions of offending anyone!! Just thought it was a joke

[Faeawyn]

I have a friend who grew up in West Virginia and indeed grew up eating squirrel, possum, coon...all kinds of weird critters. We love to tease her about it :lol:
They even ate squirrel brains soup..... :sick: I'm thinking it would take alot of squirrel heads to make 1 pot of soup :(

[Sleet]

They even ate squirrel brains soup.....

I think another name for that is "hot water".

;)

[WitchJezebel]

Nope, not a joke. I actually have a wild game cookbook and there are recipes for squirrel in it.

[Kitfox]

There was a found objects piece up in my art school's gallery that included a recipe for squirrel tacos and all the students thought it was hilarioius. So my friends and I copied the recipe and made fake ones with chicken. They were quite tasty.

Not sure how they would've tasted with squirrel though.

[Ivy Artemisia]

A friend of mine hunts squirrel for food on her property. I was perusing my cooking bible- the Joy of cooking... and found that they have recipes for squirrel and stuff in it. Ickers.

[Rhianna813]

Yeah I think it's real but ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww........ Squirrel, the other, other, other white meat. Thank goodness it wasn't Moose *and* Squirrel!

Rhianna

[morrigan]

you would be surprised what some ppl will eat

[forestrangergrrl]

lmao!! i have a weight watchers points book where it actually has point values for wild game - including squirrel, possum and a couple others that got 2nd glances from me.... lol!

[Mab]

My daddy & brother always went squirrel hunting. I grew up with fried squirrel & squirrel & dumplings regularly at my house. I, personally, don't care for it. I prefer deer & duck & quail. Not much on rabbit either. But I grew up (how sad is this?) playing with ---get this---a stick to which was tied one end of a piece of rope. The other end was tied to a squirrel tail. That was one of my toys. Squirrel tails are very soft, ya know.

[Djiril]

What makes so many people think that squirrel would taste bad? And for those who have tried it, how does it taste? :huh:

[DixieWitch]

My dad squirrel hunts. I've had it before..kinda tastes like chicken!! Same with rabbit!!! I've never had possum though!!!

[Mab]

Yeah....kinda like gamey chicken.

[Eldric_Dragonsblood]

I don't taste the chicken in it....I do taste the hints of something like rabbit, but usually more gamey.

[flar7]

taste like the dark meat of chicken, kinda oily and a can be gamey. lowfat, unless you fry it up in lard. Cook on open fire is best, ladle on some kinda sauce. mmmmm.

[tebyen]

Possum tastes a lot like chicken. You can actually fool people if you cook it right.

[wooleybob]

I make a mean stuffed squirrel,with corn bread stuffing,baked in celery cream sauce...mmmmmmm

[oakowl]

Oh yes. You boil the squirrel until the meat is falling off the bone. Then combine with a white gravy and serve over bisquits. It is real good stuff. Stay away from the brains though. I know people who would scramble them with eggs in the past but I read a year or so ago folks getting sick with something similiar to mad cow.

[ravenmyst]

never had it but by my locationyou can guess it is common around here

[Home & Garden Witch]

Now I'm actually interested in possibly trying it! *LoL* I'm rather adventursome though...

[BelovedDru]

Yeah, here in West-by-God-Virginia, squirrel is actually a common meal. I've never had it--I just can't seem to bring myself to eat furry little rodents, dead and cooked or not.

[witchsmacked]

When I was in high school, we played football against schools in a small town about an hour away called Ville Platte. Our games would have to be played on Thursday nights every year because the Friday was always the open of squirrel season. When the season opened, the town SHUT DOWN. Literally.

I've eaten it only once and it wasn't bad.