Raccoon meat at South Carolina store must go, officials say

Rooters ^ | Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:45pm EDT | Harriet McLeod

[Rebelbase]

Tipped off by a complaint, inspectors recently found the cleaned raccoon meat in plastic bags inside one of the store's coolers, along with bagged ice.

The Lucky 7 store — located in Gadsden, near the state capital of Columbia — removed the meat upon request, Berry said. But when inspectors went back several days later, they found it outside the building near some trash.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Some will not eat bear as they are considered sacred and in fact, we call them Auntie, as they brought us medicine.****

Another man I worked with shot a bear in California. After skinning it out he refused to eat any of it because, after the skin is off, it looks too much like a skinned man.

[Tax-chick]

Ick! Worst thing that happened to us was turkey with shot in it.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"After skinning it out he refused to eat any of it because, after the skin is off, it looks too much like a skinned man."

I've always wondered how many skinned men the people that say that have seen.

[ApplegateRanch]

It was some of your people that showed me how to take care of a 6’ sturgeon (1964, summer) that I caught between the mouth of the Klamath & Klamath Glen. I tried to give them a large chunk, but “all” they wanted was the 15’ or so of cartilage that they pulled out, attached to the tail.

They said it was really the best part.

As for the bears ‘getting brave enough to enter the kitchen, my oldest brother, at Shasta Lake, got a desperate call from an anti-gun neighbor. A bear had tried to crawl through his doggie door, and ended up inside, wearing the door like a necklace, and he was asking “what should I do!?!”

My brother still has the rug, and the neighbor no longer has doggie doors...and bought a rifle.

[fish hawk]

That sturgeon cartilage (sturgeons have no bones but the skull) is boiled and very good to eat. Also the cartilage in the back of eels is good.

[NWFLConservative]

The dz is not transmitted via close contact, but rather, through the consumption of infected meat (or organs like the liver).

[TXnMA]

What else can you do with a snapper that chomps down on your hook when fishing — but make “turtle & dumplings”? In that dish, I actually prefer turtle to chicken.

[Eaker]

The kit on the left is clearly a surgeon!

[NWFLConservative]

The bug that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis is also a gram negative rod, and indeed carried by the fleas. The fleas are what are known as "vectors". The bug is harbored in what are known as "resevior hosts", like rats and other small game, and the flea's bite is what transmits the bug. The resevior hosts are usually asymptomatic.

The reason Y. pestis killed so many people during the middle ages is that people really did not know how the dz was transmitted or how to treat it. What killed so many people with the bubonic plague was severe dehydration and septicemia (widespread infection throughout the body). It kills mainly by derailing a lot of our immune system, principally by defeating efforts by certain white blood cells to "phagocytize"(eat) them.

There were of course, no antibiotics at the time either. Aminoglycoside antibiotics like streptomycin, and IV hydration, will usually knock out the bugs fairly quickly. Untreated or delayed treatment, however, can push the mortality rate upwards of 90%.

[ApplegateRanch]

Yeah, they explained about how to use it.

When you say eels, do you mean the thick, black salt water ones about 12-18” long caught with about a 10’ pole with a hook tied to the end it that is poked around the rocks in the tidal areas?

[Eaker]

bear fang necklaces that I have made.

Sounds cool, got any pictures?

[oyez]

I don't remember seeing any gopher when I grew up in Mississippi. I guess they all disappeared during the Depression.

[TXnMA]

"Oven roasted in a pan of sweet potatoes is downright yummy."

Never went in for "Hoover Hog", myself, but that is how the black folks in these parts (Northeastern Texas Piney Woods) supposedly cook 'possum.

[RipSawyer]

“It tastes a lot like pork...it is in the same family after all.”
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Wrong!!! The Raccoon is not even in the same order, it is in the order Carnivora while the pig is in the order Artiodactyla. They are both mammals but so are you and I. Racoons have much more in common with bears or even dogs or cats than with pigs.

[TXnMA]

Yep, had one attack my ankles while I was putting my one-man boat atop my Cherokee. A .380 Glaser straight down between his shoulders sperad him out like a rug -- and preserved the head so the animal control guys could (and did) confirm the rabies.

When that 'coon charged out from under the Jeep and glommed onto my ankles, I sure was glad I was wearing tall, sturdy boots!

[billorites]

Varmint hunting in the northeast means shooting woodchucks.

It's great sport because the distances can reach out close to 200 yards or so and woodchucks are pretty wiley creatures who are more than a match for the average nimrod doofus.

Still, I've managed to kill quite a few over the years and I've never seen one that looked sickly, invested with parasites, or otherwise compromised. If I felt like chowing down on a rodent they'd be my first choice 'cause they're sparkly clean and fresh just like me.

My grandfather ate woodchucks, or so I was told.

But then he and my parents ate boudin or blood sausage too.

That stuff is a "link too far" if you know what I mean...

[TXnMA]

On a thread a couple of days ago, I told how my tinnitus came from four of us shooting .22 pistols through (open) car windows -- thinning out the jackrabbits in the NM Pecos valley.

The jacks were carrying bubonic plague, and the government asked folks to kill as many as we could of them to thin the population so the fleas would stop spreading.

I hope it worked. It was some fun shooting, but my hearing has paid for it the rest of my life...:(

[oyez]

From what I have heard boudin should just as well be called “Mystery Sausage.”

[bog trotter]

I was once in a home where they were cooking racoon and was invited to pull up a chair. Couldn’t get past the smell!
Woodchuck, on the other hand...Yum! Tastes just like rabbit only more of it.
Besides, my policy is..You eat my garden, you are invited to dinner.

[fish hawk]

No but done that and ate those too. Lamprey eels come into the rivers in the fall and winter and go up river to spawn just like the salmon do. They have a sucker mouth and white people go , “ eewww ewwww You eat those slimy things. They remind me of a snake.” but actually they are very rich and good eating. I don't care for them smoked too much but most Indians like them that way the best. Very oily and rich, even smoked.