[Shermy]

Cuisine ping.

[Young Werther]

Stinky Rats season is open? Let's not tell the Hildebeast or her little dog Billie either!

[RichInOC]

"Muskrat, muskrat in my sight,
"Settin' the traps and doin' it right,
"Fried ev'ry evenin'...
"It's pretty pleasin'..."

[Restorer]

good eating for those who have no objection to dining on rodent.

Squirrel? Rabbit?

[mg39]

Sounds like the muskrats die by drowning. That's cruel.

[joesnuffy]

Nothing more delicous than a nice fat muskrat...caught while hibernating...
and their fur is so nice and plush...a pleasure both to stroke and 'frick a zee'

[etcetera]

Interesting. I can understand the "rat" part of the name by the pictures. But the "musk" part of the name kinda implies that it has a smell?

[mhking]

Wabbit season! Duck season! Wabbit season! Duck season! Wabbit season! Duck season!

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[PoorMuttly]

"...a sodden mass of dark hair and claws..."

Hey...I used to date her !

[El Gato]

Muskrat Hunting Season in Full Swing in Delaware

Minor nit, you don't hunt them, you trap them. At least that's what my Dad and his buddies used to do.

[NC Conservative]

I wish someone would trap Joe Biden's(D-Delaware) hair

[latrans]

I have skinned at least 3 pickups full of rats, but never could bring myself to eat one. I guess I saw too many of those huge yellow puss bag tumors just under the skin.
I would say that about one in a hundred is afflicted that way. Kinda grosses you out when you skin one. A wound is the cause I suspect. When they are a few days ripe, the sides of the body start to turn green. I hate it when the
body comes apart when you pull the skin down.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'll bet Trafficant's glad to be out of the line of fire.

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[Media Insurgent]

My father was from the Delmarva Peninsula. Every now and then he'd get his hands on some muskrat from down that way and cook it up. We lived in Upstate NY where most people were familiar with muskrats, but would never dream of eating them. I still remember the looks of horror, disgust and confusion when visitors to the house learned what Dad was fixing on the stove. Almost invariably if he asked them to try it, they'd turn about 5 shades of green.

We were real culinary oddballs in the neighborhood. It was a heavily Italian-American area so while every one around us lived on baked ziti and zucchini we were eating things like oyster fritters, turnip greens and fried chicken. At the time that's all I knew, but when I look back now I have to laugh at how out of place we really were.

[reg45]

Muskrat Hunting Season in Full Swing in Delaware

Phooey! I thought it said, Democrat Hunting Season in Full Swing in Delaware.

[LibKill]

Is a 'muskrat' some sort of Yankee nutria-rat? :)