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[Ken4230]

Originally Posted by madddawg

Yup, Worth, some of the worst garden pest are the tastiest. but that does not include possums or moles/voles.

I was once talked into trying Possum and Dumplin's at a local Wild Game Feast. I made an alcohol induced attempt, but the gag reflex was still pretty strong. It brought back bad childhood memories.
Memories of drinking good icecold water out of a spring fed stream, and then 100 yards upstream, watching a filthy old possum crawl out of the rearend of the dead calf that was laying in the water.

My neighbor has two Jack Russell Terriers that she lets run every afternoon. They are deadly on all the 'critters' in our back yards. I keep treats handy for the little female.
She will drop a 'critter' at my feet and then try to stick her nose in my pocket, knowing that she is going to get a handful instead of just a couple of treats.
I treat them pretty good because i can show her where a mole has been and 30 minutes later, i have a dead mole/vole. Filling up all the holes is well worth it.

If it is fixed right, barbecued groundhog is some of the best wild meat i have eaten, it's almost as good as a 50 lb. wild piglet.

[Worth1]

Yep possum is too far out for me.
I had to eat some at a house way out in the hills prepared by hill folks with shotguns and moonshine.
A boy will go to extremes to win the hand of a beautiful girl.
Ground hog is good had it in a stew once at home.
Worth

[Cole_Robbie]

I read that the trick to eating possum is to put it in a pen and feed it clean food and water for a month or so before you eat it. They taste bad because of the disgusting things they eat.

[Vespertino]

I haven't eaten any crazy game yet, but in the oceanic realm I have it covered. An uncle of mine from Eastern Europe is very fond of squirrel meat. Heck, if he visits I might not have to worry about Fat Albert getting near my future tomato plants.

[shelleybean]

My old boyfriend had a cabin he kept as a vacation spot in the mountains in West Va. I went out there with him and we went to see his closest neighbors there, about 4 miles away. We stayed for dinner and they made chili. I later found out it was groundhog chili. I guess it was okay, I ate it. Maybe the spice helped but it seemed okay at the time. I doubt I'd try it again if given the choice though.

Ken, speaking of stories about animals that gross us out... My grandparents had a farm with a small lake on it. In the lake were snapping turtles. I remember they had all us kids on the back porch shucking corn and my grandpa and my dad and all my uncles were outside with huge snapping turtle somebody had caught in the lake. Way out in the country they burn their trash in a trash pile and they had just lit the trash, so that was going a few feet away. My grandpa took a wooden board with a long nail sticking through it, turned the turtle shell side down and slammed the nail up through it, with all the kids watching. It gets better/worse. He cut the head and the legs off and threw them into the pile of trash that was burning and my cousins and I sat and watched the head and legs, still moving, in the flames. Next he pulled the plate off the turtles stomach and pulled out these eggs, a couple of feet worth! GAWD, sickening stuff. Later we all sat down and ate and all the grown ups were at a big, long table and all use kids were at the kid's table. There lots of different kinds of food, including a big platter of what we thought was fried chicken. Turns out it was that turtle. I honestly thought it was a chicken thigh. Like half the foods in the world, "tastes like chicken." Anyway, to this day, I remember that trash fire and the moving turtle parts. Slightly traumatic for me but I guess when you grow up on a farm, that's part of getting your food.

[Geezer]

I'le had my share of squirrel, venison and rabbit in my days , and even had groundhog, but even I have to draw the line at raccoon and opossum. I had a similar experience growing up concerning a 'possum and a dead cow. The guy swore, yelled "G'wan, get outta there ya #*%@!!" kicked the carcass, and out he ran!
I once had an old country boy tell me that the secret to cooking raccoon and opossum was that you had to bake them with sweet potatoes- "to soak up the grease".

I'le also had my share of snapping turtle, and there ARE 7 different types of meat on one. The best part is the neck!

[shelleybean]

Geezer, my turtle experience happened not too far from you. Most of my family is from Clinton County, mostly Frankfort and Rossville.

[Ken4230]

Originally Posted by Geezer

I once had an old country boy tell me that the secret to cooking raccoon and opossum was that you had to bake them with sweet potatoes- "to soak up the grease".

I'le also had my share of snapping turtle, and there ARE 7 different types of meat on one. The best part is the neck!

On the way to Vietnam, i stopped at my grandparent's farm to spend a couple of days with them. They had a 12 acre garden that was being destroyed by groundhogs.
I was up before daylight and positioned on an old dozer pile just waiting for them to come out for breakfast. I had two dressed, wrapped in cheesecloth and boiling in the kettle by 6 that morning.

The big female was stuffed with sweet potatoes and chunks of cabbage and baked about three hours. The young male was put on the smoker and eaten for supper that night.
I went back out and killed 8 or 9 more the rest of the day. They were done the same way and put in the freezer. Grandma said that they ate on them all summer.

I guess you could call me an old country boy, i do know that i am old. I'm sitting here eating a bowl of venison chili right now, Kentucky Lake catfish for lunch.
Hope i don't get in trouble for this, as i was lightly chastised on here last year for making a comment about our rural area here killing raccoons and barbecuing them.

Ken

[ScottinAtlanta]

Possums should not be sneered at. In Georgia, the old timers have special possum pans. These are pans with a high mound in the center and a depression around the edges. The possum went on the mound, and sweet potatoes in the depression. As it cooked, the fat ran out, and the sweet potatoes cooked in the fat. And there you have a full meal.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by ScottinAtlanta

Possums should not be sneered at. In Georgia, the old timers have special possum pans. These are pans with a high mound in the center and a depression around the edges. The possum went on the mound, and sweet potatoes in the depression. As it cooked, the fat ran out, and the sweet potatoes cooked in the fat. And there you have a full meal.

Ugh! I may never eat again!

Marsha

[Worth1]

People dont eat some critters and think they are disgusting.
A good fried squirrel is one of the best things you can eat.
But yet people say they are rodents and turn their nose up.

Ladies and gentlemen of Tomatoville I submit to you the Alaskan King crab.

The crab is in the same family as the louse and spider.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...,d.aWc&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...60983673,d.b2I
Would you go to a restaurant and order louse cake?

Then there is the group that wont eat catfish.
They wont eat it because the think they are scavengers.
Yet if you end up at the bottom of the bay in less than a month the crabs will pick you clean.
What we need is a giant GMO louse to feed the world.
So the next time you order crab remember what they are and what they eat.
A squirrel eats nuts.


Worth

[madddawg]

Worth, I think we hijacked this thread back on post numbers 103 and 104

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by madddawg

Worth, I think we hijacked this thread back on post numbers 103 and 104

Dewayne mater is the one that started it and I know he would be cool with the ((re-routing)) of the thread.
Hijack is such a dirty word.

Worth

I like squirrel,, but I probably won't be hunting for food anymore. I guess I've eaten just about everything including alligator and raccoon. I'm not squeamish about harvesting and eating wild game but somethings I won't eat again because it simply didn't taste good to me. Wild turkey and pheasant rated pretty low on the score card for me. Both were very tough in my opinion even though they were prepared by "expert" cooks.

Ted

[Doug9345]

Originally Posted by Worth1

People dont eat some critters and think they are disgusting.
A good fried squirrel is one of the best things you can eat.
But yet people say they are rodents and turn their nose up.

Ladies and gentlemen of Tomatoville I submit to you the Alaskan King crab.

The crab is in the same family as the louse and spider.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...,d.aWc&cad=rja

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...60983673,d.b2I
Would you go to a restaurant and order louse cake?

Then there is the group that wont eat catfish.
They wont eat it because the think they are scavengers.
Yet if you end up at the bottom of the bay in less than a month the crabs will pick you clean.
What we need is a giant GMO louse to feed the world.
So the next time you order crab remember what they are and what they eat.
A squirrel eats nuts.


Worth

I don't eat non finned seafood. One shrimp and I don't get along. The little ones will make my lips and tongue swell up. It's not so much that I dislike the taste, it's that I'd just as soon eat the $1 a pound hot dogs. I'm also of the mind that I don't eat bugs even if they swim in water instead of crawling on land. A bug is a bug.


I've never eaten squirrel because If I'm going to kill and skin something it had better e bigger than a meal for one person. The other problem with all these "taste like chicken" meats is what happens if you dislike chicken. I'll eat a skinless, breast once in a while, or chicken mixed into something, but I intently dislike the smell of chicken (or other bird) skin cooking. To me it smells like some combination of being near someone that hasn't washed their hair in a month and boiling an old feather pillow. And there is also a strong hint of uncleaned chicken pen.