N. Korea, Rabbit Meat Popular, Becoming 'Another Sweet Meat'

Yonhap News (via Chosun Ilbo) ^ | 01/20/08

[El Gato]

They can try squirrels.

Squirrel is even leaner, I think, but tastes about the same. But tree rat is kind of tough.

[El Gato]

can you say #7 shot?

I generally used #6, sometimes #5. If the primary target was quail, with rabbit a possible "target of opportunity", I'd use #7 1/2.

[weezel]

I always used a .22. One shot in the head usually.Occasaionally, a whole bunch all up and down the tree.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

.22s, preferably CB caps, on squirrels.

[tubebender]

Oh Dear... I remember my sister and I each had a rabbit as pets during WWII. We come home from school one day and Mama said the rabbits had escaped their cages and were gone. Mama had meat on the table when Dad got home and my sister and I looked at each other and broke out crying and went to bed hungry for three nights...

[shove_it]

>>”Cok! Bling me my hossenfeffel!”<<

Vely funny. Hal, Hal, Hal!

[Kozak]

I hope they like it with tree bark......

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks for the ping.

[Grizzled Bear]

North Koreans are also known to eat tree bark and boiled grass. They'll pretty much consume anything that will fill their bellies for a little while.

Ain't Communism wonderful?

[SouthTexas]

You sound like wife. I don't think I'll get bacon for a week now!

Grand champion rabbits went for $10,000!

[UnklGene]

While in Bavaria 50 years ago, these monster sized rabbits or hares would scare the bejeepers out of us when they jumped out of tall grass during war games; the deer always looked tiny.

[monkapotamus]

"OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?"

[Defendingliberty]

“What’s cooking doc”
“Rabbit Stew”
“I love Rabbit Stew”

[SevenofNine]

BOY that could serve Chia Pet right there HEYYY MONK I knew you were around honey LOL!

[Safetgiver]

Bump off a woodchuck or two. They are just big rabbits, after all. HEY!!! Maybe we could make a buck by importing hoary rodents into NK.

[Pablo64]

Not sure I want to start eating rodents (woodchucks) quite yet, but I never try to rule out anything where food is concerned. If it’s clean and cooked properly, and tastes good, then, hey, let’s eat!

[RightWhale]

There is a rabbit in my yard that jumps around everywhere nibbling the shrubs and leaving huge amounts of droppings. The tracks cover at least a couple hundred feet in each direction. Finally saw the little fellow, he’s mostly white and about the size of a furry softball. All that activity and he would hardly make a sandwich if I caught him.

[JoeFromSidney]

Back during WW II, when I was in high school and Dad was in the Navy, we raised rabbits. Had a couple of hundred of them at the peak. It was my job to feed and water them, clean out the hutches, and butcher then when that was needed.

They're very efficient animals. Almost half the food that they eat ends up as meat (chickens do a bit better than that).

As for making pets of them, I made that mistake with one rabbit. It broke my heart to butcher her, and I could't eat her. With all the rest, though, they were just meat on the hoof. I had no problem either butchering or eating them.

Before I would butcher one, I'd sharpen my knife. The cats learned that when they heard a knife being sharpened, they were in for treats: liver, kidneys, heart. I removed the gall bladder from the liver before throwing it to the cats.

[El Gato]

22s, preferably CB caps, on squirrels.

If you hunting just squirrels or rabbits, sure. I've done that. But your primary quarry can fly then a shotgun is necessity. Although I've found that you don't hit a squirrel with very many pellets anyway, since the little furry devils tend to just peak over the branch, once they know you are about.