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.
Posted on 10/04/2014 10:58:17 AM PDT by goldstategop
Like chicken
Squirrel stew
Yummy
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.”
I’ll eat a squirrel before snails.
It’s Andrew Zimmern, not Zimmerman. It’s a good show - he hunts, fishes, gathers and consumes.
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!
I hunt and eat squirrel. I usually put the meat in a chili. Sometimes a stew.
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.
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.
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.
Africans ain’t got squirrels. Monkeys, yes. Even lions, cheetahs and jackals. They ate all the squirrels I didn’t get.
And those sqirrels you Wikipedia are chipmunks in size to grays and foxes. So don’t answer.
Well, now I have one of those “tree rats” in my attic and I have to call someone to get rid of it.
That's the only reason I haven't eliminated the gaggle of destructive critters that hang out in the trees around my place.
In my town, plenty of grey squirrels on every block and in the local park.
Where I grew up there were white squirrels.
Don’t forget the biscuits !!
They fatten up real nice on birdseed, cracked corn ect. LOL. No need to ever go hungry.
How about the texture and appearance? Are they similar to chicken too?
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..........
I like feeding mine........look at my home page....LOL!
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.
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