While I personally have never eaten squirrel, I know many people who have. It is actually pretty common in backwoods America, and yes, shooting it is the easiest way. Supermarkets tend not to stock squirrel.

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Interesting stuff!

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I have eaten squirrel. When I lived in Minnesota a college roomate made me some he hunted earlier that day. The meat itself reminded me of chicken. It was roasted and I don't recall any gamey flavor. I'd have it again.

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A few years ago Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall caused outrage in eating squirrel on one of his TV shows. I shot them as a teenager and fed to my Jack Russells. HAs anybody any idea what the beasties taste like (Squirrels not Russells)?

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When I was a kid, the locl pub my father frequented had a lot of hunters. During the year they also shot plenty of squirrel which they would prepare and freeze. Every year on "Groundhog Day" they would cook up all the squirrel (As well as some groundhog). They did it up good. It was fried with breading and was mighty tasty when I was a kid.

Fast forward a few years to college. No jokes please: West Virginia University. My friend Bill cooked up some squirrel but it was *nothing* like I remember it as a kid. Not breaded and very greasy, and for some reason the little squirrel feel were still on it. I didn't like it as much the second time.

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A co-worker was just talking about this last week.. He used to shoot them as a kid in Tennessee and ate them for dinner frequently.. He enjoys them as a nice dinner main dish. Now, everyime I see a squirrel in the park, I see a dish sitting on the table with the furrless rodent smack in the middle waiting to be carved (or whatever you do with a rodent).. My understanding is they taste like.. (fill in the blank -- you know what goes here).

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Wisconsin backwoodsman indeed! Up here in the Northwoods, not backwoods thank you, one can indulge in squirrel. Among game, squirrel is one of the best. In my opinion it cooks up better than cotton-tail, mallards or turkey. It tastes a whole bunch like...well..squirrel. Less fatty than beef, more meaty than chicken and not at all like perch.

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