[smokeross]

Originally Posted by dcc12

Ancient Chinese saying: If it swims, slithers, runs,or walks with its back toward Heaven, then it is edible.
Lots of people in the South have eaten Raccoon, Possum,frog legs and other critters.
BTB Raccoon is much better than Possum IMHO.
I Really want to try guinea pig. Have seen a few episodes of Bizarre Food where Andrew Zimmer raves about it.

Motto for Boy Scout Troop 357 in Kenai, Alaska. "If it walks, swims, or flies....it dies. Then we eat it."

[mac66]

I ate porcupine once on a bet. It was very difficult to dress out and they smell horrible. Tried roasting, boiling, frying it. The meat was pretty gamey and tough. Pretty disgusting actually.

Maybe as a last resort but not worth the effort if there are other critters about.

[Angry Fist]

Originally Posted by Maine1

Eating a Coon makes perfect sense, same with beaver, porkies, ect When all about you are sticking to their picky "rabbits and squirrels" diets and start getting tuleremia or rabbit starvation, you'll be livin', high on the hawg, well fed and dressed in warm, coon skins. I had an AWESOME coon skin cap when i was a kid, made for me by my uncle who was a trapper, with a silver fox tail. awesome, warm hat. My coon dog Bandit chewed it up when he was a puppy.
I'll eat anything. If it makes me a hillbilly, that's OK, I like hillbillies. I really like city folk too, nice and tender. Only have to clean them a week or so in the pit before we can butcher them. We save the good lookin' females for breedin' even though they ain't kin.

Thanks dude...

[Mike2]

Racoon is actually very good when cooked correctly, I prefer to soak in buttermilk over night then dredge in flour with a little Tony Sachery's added in and a little red pepper then fry until almost done. Pull the 'coon out make a milk gravy with the oil and little tasty bits left in the pan cut up an onion and add to pan then put the coon back in and cook for a couple hours on simmer. Fall of the bone tender and really good with a pan of buttermilk biscuits!!! Yum yum!!! dont forget the black burns syrup and a glass of tea and you are good to go

[OMEGA5]

Originally Posted by kerbie18

A neighborhood close to mine has a TON of racoons. I've seen ten of them eating out of the same dumpster.

The thought occured to me...are they edible? I mean, if you were starving to death, and you cooked the hell out of it. I really don't see it happening, but I was just curious....

Tastes like dog but yes, coon's good eating when
you're hungry.
Dano

[Huntinfool]

Originally Posted by Mike2

Racoon is actually very good when cooked correctly, I prefer to soak in buttermilk over night then dredge in flour with a little Tony Sachery's added in and a little red pepper then fry until almost done. Pull the 'coon out make a milk gravy with the oil and little tasty bits left in the pan cut up an onion and add to pan then put the coon back in and cook for a couple hours on simmer. Fall of the bone tender and really good with a pan of buttermilk biscuits!!! Yum yum!!! dont forget the black burns syrup and a glass of tea and you are good to go

I tried possum once when I was real young and stupid! LOL!

I have eaten coon and loved it as well as groundhogs. If I ever am reduced to having to eat possum again. I will capture him alive and clean his system out with something besides garbage and carion. Then maybe I will be able to stand it!

Actually I found this whole thread kind of funny. My grandpaw was a coon hunter and I guess I've had coon and groundhod about everyway it can be fixed.

~HF~

[tlthe6th]

Nice! Its good to know this stuff if anyone ever has to, or wants to for that matter, eat small game like that. Me being new at living in the sticks have come to realize that I would only eat things like that out of necessity.. But "to each his/her own" when it comes to this issue.. Whoever wants to eat whatever I say God bless em..