Has anyone here eaten squirrel?
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Derek 😢
lol
Go on then
Yeah, if your cook them right, they taste like barbecue sauce.
Does "right" include adding barbecue sauce? 🤔
Is that a sexual innuendo?…..because in that case, yes. I think so.
It was a very long time ago.
Still waiting
Yep, don’t recommend.
I will if Bitcoin goes to Zero
I ate a rabbit in front of my cat 😂
Yes but don't eat city squirrels.
If cooled quickly, and cleaned WELL, (as all game meat should be) it can be delicious. Especially when they lived among pecan trees.
Yep
To be fair, I ate guinea pig twice. Derek and I were talking about different kinds of protein…
Of course. Tree, not ground. You don't want ground.
Squirrel tacos have been on the menu.
Not once.
Yuck
Yes, once as part of thanksgiving dinner at my then girlfriend’s cousins house
My nanny said her family were camping and found a newly dead one and cooked it up. Brave IMO.
Yes it was terrible. Dad wanted to make a point about eating what you hunt, soooo
Yes, go on.. As you twice were saying... The story???
No, but I would like to try some.
In our region, people don't eat squirrels, but they do eat marmots—commonly known as tarbagans. These animals suffer from plague and can infect those who consume them. Therefore, during an epidemic in Mongolia and Buryatia, the authorities urge people not to eat them. Hunters enjoy hunting them because of the animals' carefulness. The fat from these animals is also valuable and used in folk medicine. 
Yes it was my job to keep the squirrel population down in my grandpa’s pecan orchard. That’s how I learned to clean and prepare game. Tasted like chicken like most smaller game.
No. But roughly 20 years ago I went to a campground in southern Minnesota and was told it was full. Being surprised at this, I asked why. The ranger said, “it’s squirrel hunting season, so the Asians all come out.”
Just leaving this as a real thing that I experienced.
Only in stew. It was good.
Yes. I used to cycle to work and collect ingredients for road kill stew (rabbit and pheasant). Henry the butcher in the local market would supply squirrel to order which I added. All was fine until the tasty stew was served on the very day our son’s new girlfriend came for lunch. She was vegetarian. Oops!
Happy ending: they married and now have two children.
Every reply here is a legit, honest answer with no bots or BS. Nostr and Bitcoin is winning…
Right? I love it.
Yeah, can be good
Squirrel and rabbit, browned and braised, are almost indistinguishable except for the squirrel’s tiny bones.
Squirrel hunting and squirrel stew are a thing in the Southern US.
yep
Important question is if she converted or not. From vegetarianism.
No
Hedgehog, yes
Not interested. I mean I would but I love these cute critters way too much alive to try their taste.
In college, Sunday morning watching a sermon with roommates in the living room, saw a squirrel just outside the patio door on the ground. Grabbed my .22 that they didn't know I had and swiftly opened the patio door and fired from inside the apartment at it as it ran from me. Bullet entered the hip and exited the shoulder. Dead immediately. We grilled it that afternoon... Tasted bad as the intestines were ripped open and rained the meat... But that is a memory!
once as a boy after a hunt
Of course
Warming! This will upset all of you that think meat comes from the grocery store. Learn to skin ‘em quick. Lay on stomach, cut underside of tail where it meets body carefully just through bone leaving as much hide as possible, step on hind legs and pull tail forward toward and over head and front feet to remove “jacket,” turn over, there will be an inverted “v” of hide on chest, holding head and front feet, grasp this “v” and pull toward and over hind feet to remove “pants.” With kitchen shears cut neck and all four feet for a cleanly skinned tree rabbit ready to gut!
I just watched a moose get skinned and yes I am mildly upset
I eat snakes and fight lions
Oh now there’s a concept. Surely people convert/are converted to a vegetarian diet and revert to an omnivorous one later.
To answer the question, yes - although it’s a very healthy diet with not much meat. They keep chickens.
It seems some readers are having difficulty skinning a squirrel while laying on their stomach, my bad.
Cut “Lay on stomach, cut underside of tail where it meets body …” and replace with, “Lay squirrel on its back and cut underside of tail where it meets body,” … “flip squirrel to stomach, … .” You get the idea. 😋
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