Supermarket Sells Raccoons As Food

[Angus]

Too red of a meat and strong to be very tasty on it's own.

Not bad flavor-wise if BBQd with sauce, but still tough.

Never has been hard to sell the meat in the States.

Almost sounds like goose, no offense to those that can cook it.

[JoePa]

Let's face it -you can eat just about any animal - some you need to know how to prepare it - some you can cook it like any other kind of meat - one thing with the orientals they eat anything that can fly, run, crawl, swims - one thing they will never run out of food - oh Pete - the meat doesn't come from heaven all wrapped - it grows on trees -

When I watch Yukon Men on TV I see were they eat just about anything too - they don't waste anything -

[patvetzal]

When I lived down in the GTA I used to cook the odd one on the BBQ. If you cut them up first and cover them with sauce they can be passed off as groundhog or chicken unless your kids are already suspicious...
The ones I got were from surrounding farm area, not subdivision dump critters.

[Sharon]

My husband came from a rich , medical family. I came from the other side of the tracks. My family survived on what Dad hunted and killed for dinner. One day I invited my husband-to-be to come for dinner.
After dinner , he said, " That was great ! What was that ?" I told him it was coon and watched his face go green . LOL (He still married me. )

[jaycee]

Eating raccoons? no different than cotton tailed rabbit or jack rabbit , groundhog, beaver, squirrel, barn pigeons, it is all in the mind, some people even turn up their noses at some species of fish, or even organ meats from domestic animals.

[patvetzal]

Went on a moose hunt with a farm family group from the Ottawa Valley many years ago. The night of the kill we had fresh liver, except for Walters family...."you don't eat innards!"

[jaycee]

[QUOTE=patvetzal;883454]Went on a moose hunt with a farm family group from the Ottawa Valley many years ago. The night of the kill we had fresh liver, except for Walters family...."you don't eat innards!"[/QUOTE]

A lot of people eat " Tripe " and where do you suppose that comes from?

[MikePal]

except for Walters family...."you don't eat innards!"

ummmm Haggis

[revrnd]

have herd like chicken... but thats what they say about everything haha
old german fella up the road from me said growing up his grandparents ate coon, said they would leave it hanging outside till it was almost green then granddad would say its time to eat that coon... i'll pass...

My grandfather hunted pheasants w/ a friend that was Scottish back in the 30s & 40s. The Camerons hung any birds out the back porch & when the tail feathers came off w/ a light pull, the bird was ready to eat. I've heard of this in literature as well.

[revrnd]

one thing with the orientals they eat anything that can fly, run, crawl, swims - one thing they will never run out of food-

I heard that @ work years ago. I was told the Chinese have extirpated more species of animals than any other nation. I've tried to look it up but can't find anything to prove this.

they can be passed off as groundhog or chicken unless your kids are already suspicious...

LOL Reminds me of a story my father used to tell about 1 of his co-workers. The kids were always bugging him to have Cornish hens, but he was too cheap to buy them. He kept racing pigeons as a hobby. The company went on strike & I guess the kids finally got their Cornish hens for dinner.

Went on a moose hunt with a farm family group from the Ottawa Valley many years ago. The night of the kill we had fresh liver, except for Walters family...."you don't eat innards!"

BTDT In the late 80s/early 90s after we gutted a deer, the liver was being divvied up. The landowner had retired from hunting but came out to see how we had done this particular day. He saw our deer and he was offered a share of the fresh liver. I can still hear Jack say, "Don't eat no guts!" The 4 of us laughed @ his expense.

I haven't laughed as much reading this thread in a long time.