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It Is Nuts To Serve Squirrel Burger (Andrew Zimmerman Weird Foods Alert)
BBC News ^ | 09/04/2014 | BBC News

Posted on 10/04/2014 10:58:17 AM PDT by goldstategop


It takes at least three grey squirrels to make a basic quarter-pounder

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bbcnews; dietandcuisine; dormice; godsgravesglyphs; greysquirrel; mmmsquirrel; romanempire; squirrelburger; weirdfood; yummy
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To: ansel12

Like chicken

Squirrel stew

Yummy


21 posted on 10/04/2014 11:41:25 AM PDT by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S.)
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To: goldstategop

Come on, now. Anybody who grew up in the Southern USA and learned how to hunt has eaten squirrel. And once it’s thoroughly cooked, there ain’t no “bush meat” viruses or microbes in it. The problem with squirrel is that you have to bag a lot of them just to make a big juicy hamburger like the one in that photo. One squirrel, dressed out, is just barely enough for a little sandwich.
But they are quite tasty, probably because of their exclusively vegetarian diet. Tastes much better than chicken. But moonbats think it’s barbaric to eat them just because they’re cute.
Or as Rush Limbaugh once said: “A squirrel is just a rat with better PR.”


22 posted on 10/04/2014 11:46:52 AM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: The KG9 Kid
While I agree in general about the preference for more conventional food sources, and would stipulate that squirrels can (theoretically) get rabies, instances of humans contracting rabies from squirrels are virtually unheard. I found this out from a vet when a squirrel attacked some neighborhood kids.
23 posted on 10/04/2014 12:01:45 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: goldstategop

I’ll eat a squirrel before snails.


24 posted on 10/04/2014 12:03:39 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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To: goldstategop

It’s Andrew Zimmern, not Zimmerman. It’s a good show - he hunts, fishes, gathers and consumes.


25 posted on 10/04/2014 12:10:28 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: MountainYankee

Yes we are fattening up a pack of them in our yard. I like my squirrel breaded in seasoned flour, fried in bacon grease then in the oven for about 45 minutes with a little white wine in the baking dish. Served with rice and white gravy from the drippings. Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!


26 posted on 10/04/2014 12:13:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: goldstategop

I hunt and eat squirrel. I usually put the meat in a chili. Sometimes a stew.


27 posted on 10/04/2014 12:18:27 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: rockrr

It’s Bubonic Plague that we associate with ground rodents here in Nevada, less so rabies which can afflict any wild creature. Then there Hantavirus.

Squirrels, adorable as they are scampering around making little girls squeal with glee, are the filthiest critters of all carrying the worst infectious diseases you can imagine. But never mind that because Cooter Coltrane and his missing big toe down in his dilapidated trailer on Cricket Chirp Creek gots hisself a prime recipe for squirrel fricasee. Ces’t magnifique.

So now trendy urban hipsters want to try boutique squirrel burgers they saw in New Yorker Magazine. Edgy and countercutural. Brilliant.

I see Western Diamondback rattlers and think “Go gobble up every squirrel you see, big boy.” and just let those snakes be.


28 posted on 10/04/2014 12:21:37 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: jespasinthru
But they are quite tasty, probably because of their exclusively vegetarian diet. Tastes much better than chicken.

He agrees, that bird is much tastier than chicken.

I was raised on squirrel meat and loved hunting them when I lived in the right places. All there is out here is little pine squirrels and a friend said he tried one. Tasted like pine.

29 posted on 10/04/2014 12:41:45 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Sherman Logan

I kill and eat a LOT of squirrels. A conservative guess is about 400-500 in the past 10 years. As you might guess, I’ve cooked them several ways, but the easiest and most efficient method is with a pressure cooker. I cook 5 gray squirrels for 35 minutes. After they cool, I pick meat for about 30 minutes and end up with just 2 and half cups of shredded boneless meat - about 1 lb of meat.

I’ve made shepherd’s pie, jerky, burgers, and chili, but my favorite way to eat it is with bbq sauce on good rolls or with just a fork. It is delicious. Tastes like chicken thigh meat, but not as greasy.

Squirrels will eat eggs, nestlings and fledglings. The reason has to do with a lack of protein in their diet or some other deficiency.


30 posted on 10/04/2014 1:04:04 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: The KG9 Kid

Africans ain’t got squirrels. Monkeys, yes. Even lions, cheetahs and jackals. They ate all the squirrels I didn’t get.


31 posted on 10/04/2014 1:15:43 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

And those sqirrels you Wikipedia are chipmunks in size to grays and foxes. So don’t answer.


32 posted on 10/04/2014 1:21:18 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: goldstategop

Well, now I have one of those “tree rats” in my attic and I have to call someone to get rid of it.


33 posted on 10/04/2014 1:26:33 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: MountainYankee
You can bet this will be a menu item if S ever hits the F.

That's the only reason I haven't eliminated the gaggle of destructive critters that hang out in the trees around my place.

34 posted on 10/04/2014 1:30:06 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: goldstategop

In my town, plenty of grey squirrels on every block and in the local park.

Where I grew up there were white squirrels.


35 posted on 10/04/2014 1:38:17 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Don’t forget the biscuits !!

They fatten up real nice on birdseed, cracked corn ect. LOL. No need to ever go hungry.


36 posted on 10/04/2014 1:38:55 PM PDT by MountainYankee
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To: KingLudd

How about the texture and appearance? Are they similar to chicken too?


37 posted on 10/04/2014 1:48:13 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: The KG9 Kid
Rodents = rabies.

It should be noted that there has NEVER, EVER, been one reported case of a squirrel having rabies.......

Why you ask? Because a squirrel is a food source to carnivores higher up in the food chain (if they can be caught) and any squirrel caught by a rabid animal would be eaten..........

38 posted on 10/04/2014 1:59:26 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I like my squirrel breaded in seasoned flour

I like feeding mine........look at my home page....LOL!

39 posted on 10/04/2014 2:01:27 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't harsh my buzz homie......)
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To: eartrumpet

Okay, now you’re just messing with me. I have known lots and lots of squirrels in my life, and I’ve never seen one that could catch a bird. Let alone eat it, feathers and all. That picture has got to be fotoshop. If squirrels were that carnivorous, then they’d be eating the little anole lizards that scamper across the sidewalks all over the South. They’re a lot easier to catch than birds, and they’re more juicy.


40 posted on 10/04/2014 2:03:59 PM PDT by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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