Actually they aren't bad until you consider that you're eating a rat with a fuzzy tail.

Runs and hides.

Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion. Besides, the lawsuits from choking on enlarged testicles, alone, would bankrupt the industry.

Sliced SWEDE?!

Vegetarian--old Indian word for "lousy hunter".

They keep getting up on my bird feeders, and I've always resisted the urge to blast them.

Now I'll also have to resist the urge to cook them.

Fried 'tree rat' ain't bad, but it will take more than one to feed 1.5 people as the article suggests. More like an appitizer in my book.

I guess that makes me a pioneer in the Green movement.

I've been eating those little bastards for 30 years.

Squirrel and dumplings is quite the delicacy, actually. My father eats the brains and tongue with relish. Seriously. And the woods are just chock full of the little bastards- and it's perfectly legal to shoot 'em!

Squirrels aren't so good - they taste more like goldfish. Meat's real stringy.

/Pidgeons are good.
//Sometimes they come with notes attached.
///It's like a fortune cookie with wings.

Squirrel's good eat'n!

Forgot to mention, they are hard to skin.

used to eat the damn things, until he heard they were high in cholesterol

Inigo: Squirrels aren't so good - they taste more like goldfish. Meat's real stringy.

You gotta find a nest of young 'uns and make 'em in a batch, or else make a braise.

SQUIRRELS!....the old, now new... green meat

/waiting for the greenies to discover quail

Well, the thought of eating it makes me turn green.
/retches

le mew: Sliced SWEDE?!

AKA Rutabaga

Inigo: Squirrels aren't so good - they taste more like goldfish. Meat's real stringy.

You're doing it wrong. Oven-fried squirrel with cream gravy and biscuits is truly one of the foods of the gods. The only thing that beats it is oven-fried rabbit.

/rodent shmodent

Lamb is sweet? Since when?

I like muh squirrel with sweet sorghum syrup and a mess 'o fried taters.


/really

They may taste like pumpkin pie but I wouldn't know because I won't eat the filthy motherfarker.

Um, rabbit? More meat on them.

Squirrel is greasy and there's not enough meat on them for me to even want to bother.

It's one of the few creatures that I'd rather see alive than on my dinner plate. Though if one ended up there, I wouldn't pass it up.

JoeBagadonutz: Actually they aren't bad until you consider that you're eating a rat with a fuzzy tail.

You're not supposed to eat the tail.

They covered this on Gordon Ramsay's F-Word last year. Restaurant critic Giles Coren did the spot:

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xBodo99: Lamb is sweet? Since when?

Since...forever. Unless your lamb was a little tart.

/sheep is whores.

Vegetarianism is great for those who are willing to go that route. A good first step on everyone else's behalf would be the humane treatment of food animals. They don't need to summer in the hamptons, but the worst abuses should be abolished.

If the major religious authorities insist on blocking all discussion of global population control, even the rich will have less meat to eat... or 100 more africans will starve so Friday's can serve that steak. But hey, there're lots of people starving in africa, what's another hundred?

/eats meat
//but mostly poultry, it takes less resources to raise
///awaits the brutal onslaught of compassionless conservatives

Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

THIS.

I have always liked squirrels (as cute, furry animals) - and there is no way in hell I would eat one.

Fry it up with some eggs and potatoes, throw it on a tortilla with some pico de gallo and we'll eat it down here in south texas.

© Oh, served with beans, cheese, and rice would be an added bonus and we'll just call it the Number 7 special

Raging Thespian: They may taste like pumpkin pie but I wouldn't know because I won't eat the filthy motherfarker.

Do you eat pork? ...just sayin'

I've always wanted to be a squirrel wrangler.

Ridley reckons that patriotism also plays a part: 'Eat a grey and save a Red. That's the message.'


So new-age enviro-hippies eat woodrats because it will support Communism?

_{I knew they couldn't be trusted.}

Suicidal Writer: Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
~ Leonardo da Vinci


One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
~ Albert Einstein

Hey, look, it's the Vegan Bevets.

On the topic of eating squirrel, it's pretty good. Hardly "new" anything, though, us "back country" folk have ate it for generations.

As someone who grew up on squirrel, rabbit, etc, I'm really getting a kick out of this thread.

To the guys saying there ain't enough meat on them: go out to the woods and pop some of the big red farkers, not them scrawny little gray ones you see in the city. Some of the squirrels we have up on the rez are the size of a smallish cat. It ain't a deer by a long shot, but it's definitely more than an appetizer.

Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

How about pork and chicken?

Alternate Reality: Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

How about pork and chicken?

As someone who has raised chickens, once they get beyond the "meeping yellow fuzzball" stage, there is nothing cute about a chicken, at all.

Kumana Wanalaia: or 100 more africans will starve so Friday's can serve that steak. But hey, there're lots of people starving in africa, what's another hundred?

Starvation in Africa is largely a self-inflicted problem. If the governments would make even token efforts to move forward into the 18th century, or the people would overthrow their shiatty governments and/or move to where the food is, they wouldn't have that problem. Seriously, how farked up do you have to be to look backwards even compared to the Middle East?

Kumana Wanalaia: Vegetarianism is great for those who are willing to go that route. A good first step on everyone else's behalf would be the humane treatment of food animals. They don't need to summer in the hamptons, but the worst abuses should be abolished.

If the major religious authorities insist on blocking all discussion of global population control, even the rich will have less meat to eat... or 100 more africans will starve so Friday's can serve that steak. But hey, there're lots of people starving in africa, what's another hundred?

/eats meat
//but mostly poultry, it takes less resources to raise
///awaits the brutal onslaught of compassionless conservatives

Fair enough. Small farm life is relatively happy for animals until they become food. The real problems are the enormous agricorps, and there's not too horribly much that can be done about those until we get their money away from Congress.

i haven't shot them since i was a teenager and that was a long time ago. mom just threw them on a baking sheet in the oven and i remember they were very greasy and cleaning the things were time consuming.we'd sell the tails to a old man to help keep us supplied with ammo and fishing tackle. i didn't think wild duck was much better. wild turkey was good and deer for the win. god i love venison.

Would chipmunks be fast-food?

eeewwww! who would want to eat them?
have you seen what squirrels eat in nyc? and other big cities?

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/Mrs. Creepy Wierd-Mom approves.

ReisFlynn: As someone who has raised chickens, once they get beyond the "meeping yellow fuzzball" stage, there is nothing cute about a chicken, at all.

Absolutely. Once they turn into chickens, it's almost a chore NOT to kill the little bastids. Ducks are cool though.

ReisFlynn: Alternate Reality: Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

How about pork and chicken?

As someone who has raised chickens, once they get beyond the "meeping yellow fuzzball" stage, there is nothing cute about a chicken, at all.

chickens are indeed little noisy pecking sh][t machines.

Twisted Gods: Raging Thespian: They may taste like pumpkin pie but I wouldn't know because I won't eat the filthy motherfarker.

Do you eat pork? ...just sayin'

That was mostly from Pulp Fiction, and just because it seems relevant, that whole quote came about because the character was explaining why he won't eat pork.

Alternate Reality: Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

[image of ridiculously adorable pig]

How about pork and chicken?

that pig looks so cute I could eat him.

which I am.

/Pork chops and applesauce for dinner tonight
//rabbit tomorrow night

Kumana Wanalaia: If the major religious authorities insist on blocking all discussion of global population control, even the rich will have less meat to eat... or 100 more africans will starve so Friday's can serve that steak. But hey, there're lots of people starving in africa, what's another hundred?

Too bad starvation in Africa really has nothing to do with meat at this point. Has far more to do with the fact the country is a cluster-fark on an epic scale.

But please, go ahead and assume I'm a "compassionless conservative" instead of someone who doesn't buy into disproven bullshiat statistics designed to invoke emotional responses instead of logical ones.

ReisFlynn: As someone who has raised chickens, once they get beyond the "meeping yellow fuzzball" stage, there is nothing cute about a chicken, at all.

As someone else who has raised chickens, they remain adorable throughout their life.

re-elect_jimmy_carter: ReisFlynn: Alternate Reality: Skail: Nah, squirrels typically fall in the category of "too cute to eat," in my opinion.

How about pork and chicken?

As someone who has raised chickens, once they get beyond the "meeping yellow fuzzball" stage, there is nothing cute about a chicken, at all.

chickens are indeed little noisy pecking sh][t machines.

Worse is that they are self-destructivly stupid, and stubborn beyond belief.

Stay out in weather that kills them, despite having a warm coop to go into? Check.

Stick their head through the chicken wire fence, get stuck, then break their necks trying to free themselves? Check.

It's amazing how little a chicken needs its brain. The whole "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" metaphor is based on a very accurate event.