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So what have we got - olive focaccia (yep, could make that tomorrow)... rocket soup ('tis the season for soups)... win a holiday to Ireland (why do I never win anything).. kedgeree (not made that for ages)... ummm, quinces in season (must get some)...
Reading the In Season section on page 18 more intently I noticed a Food For Free listing... Chestnuts (where is a chestnut tree around here?), hare, mallard (yum...), squirrel... SQUIRREL!
Good grief - do people eat squirrel? Road kill squirrel... Wisconsin backwoodsmen out with a gun... but in good ol' Blighty? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone eating Squirrel let alone seen it for sale. And it would seem I am not the only one. Have a look at In Search of Squirrel for example (no date here so not sure how old the posts are).
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10-16-2005 @4:56PM cmonkey said... 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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10-16-2005 @2:53PM Devin Lussier said... According to the Wayback Machine, that page was last updated in October 2003.
Interesting stuff!
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10-17-2005 @12:21AM Sean Hackbarth said... 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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10-17-2005 @1:52AM Ed Charles said... 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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10-18-2005 @3:16PM GJ Head said... 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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10-17-2005 @3:36PM rick said... 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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10-17-2005 @7:13PM Chromepoet said... 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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