Have you ever eaten Squirrel?

I live in the hills of southern PA. I have had squirrel many times. Just skin it, wash it with salt and water and then let it soak in the fridge in salt water for an hour or so. Fry it up in a pan with some mushrooms, salt and pepper and it tastes a bit like dark meat chicken with a nice nutty flavor to it.

Not that I'm aware of. I say I'm not aware if I have because a great friend and former coworker used to bring in a bowl of stew for me when she made it. When I'd ask, after commenting that it tasted good, what all was in it, the reply was always "A little of this, a little of that." Which to me suggested that she didn't want to tell me.

And, after numerous days of deer hunts ruined by squirrels, I doubt I've any problem with killing and eating a squirrel. The only difficulty with me doing precisely that was the fact that I never remembered to take a small caliber rifle in addition to my deer hunting rifle, and there generally isn't enough left of the squirrel to gather up for cooking if you use a .30-06 rather than a more appropriate .22.

If you want just odd culinary traditions; a friend gave his sons BB rifles for Christmas presents with the firm understanding that they'd have to eat any live animals they killed with the air rifles. It didn't take long for them to do that; A large woodpecker, to be exact. He breasted it out, and grilled the meat over a pecan fire. He reports that it was rather tasty.

I may do a poll in his neighborhood to see if there's been a strange lack of woodpeckers of late.

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I have never eaten one. What does it taste like?

Here in Australia, people eat kangaroos, crocodiles, emus etc.

Rabbits are considered as pests and some people eat them, but not overly popular.

In Japan, people used to eat whales around wartime (not very common nowadays), horse etc.

Eating squirrel seems like another form of culinary adventure for some; I would love to try it!

As person who grew up in France I can tell you that poor people ate everything they could put their hands on including squirrels. Porcupine is one that many ate cooking it in the ground.

After World War II there was not any food available, rats, horses, dogs. As I said anything one could put his/her hands on.

My thoughts on this? When one is hungry enough one will eat anything. Many people know not what true hunger is therefore will be disgusted with these thoughts.

Many, many times. I also like pan fried squirrel, and squirrel makes a great stew meat. I've also eaten rabbit (and a host of other wild game), and I don't think rabbit is as flavorful as squirrel.

in Arkansas we have both gray and fox squirrels the later is about the size of small rabbit but I soak in salt water place in in a crock pot .the I add potatoes carrots onionand season to taste.-try that

I never have but it's not so unusual in the south. There was a cooking-travels show I saw in South America and they were selling grilled hamsters on skewers (really). I've eaten rabbit many times.

North Idaho squirrels are too small to realistically eat, but I'd like to try it. I see little difference in what animal you choose to eat.

No I haven't, we don't have squirrels here

H-man

Never eaten it & doubt i ever will. Apology accepted.