Squirrel, anyone? (other than po' trailer trash)
I'd eat it.
I haven't yet, but if I could afford to eat at that level of restaurant (ironic, huh?) I would.
Yumyum.
Richard Alexander, from the Spoon Cafe, said the animals, which are subject to a cull, have low air miles and are completely free range.
WTF?
Guess they ain't flying squirrels?
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I've et 'em. Tasty.
Late Grandmadigr's neighbor used to cook scrambled eggs with squirrel brains in 'em.:yum:
If you genuinely mean WTF Grav, I'll elucidate.
Being a maritime temperate climate (cool, lots of rain), but having a taste for exotic food partly fuelled by Colonialism, a lot of food is imported into the UK. There is a push to encourage people to simply eat seasonally, and only have overseas food as a treat.
For example don't buy strawberries in February, as they have to be flown in from ?Guatemala? For sure have the occasional avocado, as they are not grown here, but try to wait for your asparagus and buy British when it's in season.
It's especially powerful when it comes to meat; we import a lot of lamb (for example) from New Zealand, as their seasons are the exact opposite of ours. But it comes halfway round the world. Instead, try some meat from your doorstep. Or the roadside :)
Of course free-range animals will always be more expensive than those caged and/ or cultivated. Hence squirrel not being a cheap choice. Not much on the little critters either. But I'd rather eat a squirrel than have it incinerated. Mmmmm, nutty goodness.
A number of friends of mine who grew up in Vermont ate squirrel pretty regularly. Not now so much, especially since mom and dad aren't around to whup them if they don't clean their plates.
We call them 'tree rats'.
[SIZE="3"]Recipe for Burgoo Stew[/SIZE]
8 squirrel brains (scrambled)
1 lb. venison
½ gallon chicken broth
1 ½ cups of sautéed peppers and onions
¾ cup of potatoes
Pinch of salt
Mix in pot and let simmer for 3 hours.
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If you genuinely mean WTF Grav, I'll elucidate.
Being a maritime temperate climate (cool, lots of rain), but having a taste for exotic food partly fuelled by Colonialism, a lot of food is imported into the UK. There is a push to encourage people to simply eat seasonally, and only have overseas food as a treat.
For example don't buy strawberries in February, as they have to be flown in from ?Guatemala? For sure have the occasional avocado, as they are not grown here, but try to wait for your asparagus and buy British when it's in season.
It's especially powerful when it comes to meat; we import a lot of lamb (for example) from New Zealand, as their seasons are the exact opposite of ours. But it comes halfway round the world. Instead, try some meat from your doorstep. Or the roadside :)
Of course free-range animals will always be more expensive than those caged and/ or cultivated. Hence squirrel not being a cheap choice. Not much on the little critters either. But I'd rather eat a squirrel than have it incinerated. Mmmmm, nutty goodness.
I'll buy that. I wanted to think "they don't mean airmiles literally", but, I see that they did. I overthunk it.
Kthxbai.
I would give it a try. Like those wild squirrels, I'm game.
Coming from a true Cajun from Louisiana, the best thing you can do with a squirrel iis make squirrel & dumplin's... Delicious
Coming from a true Cajun from Louisiana, the best thing you can do with a squirrel iis make squirrel & dumplin's... Delicious
you do know that you can take the guts and make fish bait too right? land a spec or a drum and you've tripled your dinner plate!
skin, quarter & fry. save the drippings for gravy
I had squirrel just once. One of the girls in my grade school came from Kentucky. She had fried squirrel for lunch and offered me a piece. It was quite good. Not gamey at all.
But I'll eat most anything breaded and fried.
I had squirrel just once, too. My then husband used to slingshot pebbles at squirrels to keep them away from the bird feeder. One day he got a native Colorado Abert's black squirrel right between the eyes. We ate it, so its life wouldn't have been a "waste." :eek2: I was NOT impressed. And this was a "corn fed" squirrel at that.
When I told my Dad about the incident, he said that he would have to be at gun point to ever eat a squirrel again. Apparently, he and his older brother often shot squirrel back in Kentucky to put meat on the table during the Depression.
So leave poor squirell nutkin alone, y'all!
I wonder what the statute of limitations is on killing an endangered Abert?
Oh, believe me, we BOTH felt guilty as hell. My ex meant to scare the damn thing, NOT end up eating it. However, if you'd like to turn the ex in to Colorado Fish and Wildlife, pm me, and I'll send you his name and address. Heh!
I was once using a BB gun to scare a bird away so he would stop pecking holes in the house, but the BB went through his eye and killed him.
I was once using a BB gun to scare a bird away so he would stop pecking holes in the house, but the BB went through his eye and killed him.
Thank FSM you didn't use a PP gun :eek: That would have totally wanged that bird.
I was once using an M-80 to clear some dust out of an old desk drawer but it ended up blowing the desk to smithereens.
Once I tried to clean up my yard with a nuclear bomb and the whole freaking town disappeared. I didn't try THAT again. *chuckles* Silly girl. Good times, good times. Live and learn.
Once I tried to clean up my yard with a nuclear bomb and the whole freaking town disappeared. I didn't try THAT again. *chuckles* Silly girl. Good times, good times. Live and learn.
Way to bogart all the fun, IM. Jumping from M80 to nuclear bomb. :eyebrow:
What's in between? I'm sorely lacking in munitions knowledge.
Way to bogart all the fun, IM. Jumping from M80 to nuclear bomb. :eyebrow:
Yeah, now we'll have to bring up the time you missed taking the trash out so you made a small black hole to toss the bags into when no one was looking and well, one thing led to another and the entire universe, including time, itself, got sucked into the black hole.
'Member that Pete? You sure had some explaining to do that time.
'Member that Pete? You sure had some explaining to do that time.
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I would love me some squirrel but only if its crazy!
Just cut a squirrel out of a rattlesnake.
I would love me some squirrel but only if its crazy!
Great. We've barely got past Mad Cow Disease and you want to go messing with Crazy Squirrel Syndrome.
You're nuts.
It actually stunk to high heavens but my wife really wanted to see what it was. I kept telling her it had to be a tree rat. But no, she had to see it. So I opened it, the damm head of the thing pulled off and we both about puked from the smell. Now my trash can is stinking up an area of about 10 square miles around my house of death.
Yeah, now we'll have to bring up the time you missed taking the trash out so you made a small black hole to toss the bags into when no one was looking and well, one thing led to another and the entire universe, including time, itself, got sucked into the black hole.
'Member that Pete? You sure had some explaining to do that time.
Reminded me of
this.
Pleez not to be eetin muh sqwurls. Deez r mine.
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Dem is purty squirrels. :)
They look…
meaty.
Did I say "meaty"? I meant…
mighty tasty.
One mo.
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We have a rotating population of about 4-6 squirrels. Popdigr calls them all Arnold. As in Schwartzensquirrel.
Cuz they're all so--meaty.
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ETA: It had been many years since I'd seen those little ground squirrels, with the little black stripes down their back, probably ten years, and those were over at Land Between The Lakes, in western KY.
I've seen three here near home in the last two months.
My best friend went outside to look at the world the other morning, and found this little feller laying in the yard. Must've been blown outta the nest by the storm the night before. He took care of it for a few days, then remembered how much it entailed raising a babby squirrel. So he took it 'to show it to' his 9-10 year old god daughter. She fell in love instantly, and wasn't about to give it up. Mission accomplished. The girl's dad didn't mind much, but, her mama sure was giving him a mean look when he left...without the babby squirrel.
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Actually, it's a Rocky (sex unknown). I name all squirrels Rocky. And all squirrels have a British accent.
Really?
See now to me, red squirrels have a Scottich accent. But then that's because they live there mostly. They were driven out by the pesky American grey squirrels. No, really.
That said, I adore squirrels. Seeing one used to be enough to convince me I was going to have a good day.
Although I had to change that method of divination when I moved to Leicester; the whole of Limes Walk was heaving with them, and I walked down it to a job I hated every day.
A really lovely story, Grav.
Thanks.
(Hope the youngun' doesn't get bit. They can carry rabies you know.)
Just call me your Sundae Sunshine :)
Raising babby squirrels is kind of a rite of passage for the kids in my neck o' the woods.
I think it gives a small lesson in responsibility (and early exposure to death, in a lot of cases).
Well, kids raise the squirrel. To raise a babby squirrel to viability requires responsibility, feeding several times a day, making it a warm comfy place for it, just taking care of it in general.
And, quite often the squirrel dies anyway, and the kid learns just a bit about death and the acceptance of same.
Maybe it's more of an opportunity for the parents to explain death, and how it's part of life, to the child.
In my neck o' the woods, it's babby rabbits. The kids discover a nest with babbies. They're thrilled. I tell them the momma goes out foraging and leaves the babbies 'til sundown. I cross my fingers and hope hope hope she comes back.
She doesn't come back, having been picked off by one of the pair of hawks that nest in the big cottonwood by the creek.
So the kids cry and won't go to sleep and want to raise the babby rabbits ...
We did that more than once. It went the usual way: the runt died and the kids had to cope with the death; the others thrived, and the kids had to feed them multiple times a day and check on them constantly, etc., and finally release them into the woods behind our place.
Squirrels in PA are all black. In Ottawa, long ago, there were red, gray, AND black squirrels. More than I've ever seen, since. I've been disappointed in the mid-Atlantic squirrel census.
I had me a babby rabbit.
It's still pining for the fjords to this day.:sniff:
Owner Richard Alexander said the squirrel meat was free range, low fat and low on air miles.
From the original article of this thread. Can someone explain how 'air miles' refers to squirrels of the non-flying variety?
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Try this, Rich...
If you genuinely mean WTF Grav, I'll elucidate.
Being a maritime temperate climate (cool, lots of rain), but having a taste for exotic food partly fuelled by Colonialism, a lot of food is imported into the UK. There is a push to encourage people to simply eat seasonally, and only have overseas food as a treat.
For example don't buy strawberries in February, as they have to be flown in from ?Guatemala? For sure have the occasional avocado, as they are not grown here, but try to wait for your asparagus and buy British when it's in season.
It's especially powerful when it comes to meat; we import a lot of lamb (for example) from New Zealand, as their seasons are the exact opposite of ours. But it comes halfway round the world. Instead, try some meat from your doorstep. Or the roadside :)
Of course free-range animals will always be more expensive than those caged and/ or cultivated. Hence squirrel not being a cheap choice. Not much on the little critters either. But I'd rather eat a squirrel than have it incinerated. Mmmmm, nutty goodness.
I'll buy that. I wanted to think "they don't mean airmiles literally", but, I see that they did. I overthunk it.
Kthxbai.
Squirrels in PA are all black. In Ottawa, long ago, there were red, gray, AND black squirrels. More than I've ever seen, since. I've been disappointed in the mid-Atlantic squirrel census.
Round here (NEPA) we have grays, reds, and flying squirrels. No blacks.
I've been infusing mah squrls w/coconut via coconut cookies. Squrls ƒucking lurve coconut cookies.
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They will leave cracked corn to get these cookies.
I wish I could go hunting in your yard! They look plump and tasty
@Bruce ... :lol:
I didn't think anyone could make me lol tonight ;)
Oh Mr. DeMille...
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Glatt, rescued any babby squrls lately?
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She should be fine.Awww, baby squirrel. So cute.
Why is that cast three times as long as her leg? Immobilize it?
I think it's immobilized to it's extended length. Maybe?
Story says she suffered a broken ankle.
Not mah squrl:
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Round here (NEPA) we have grays, reds, and flying squirrels. No blacks.
Popdigr had some trail cams out, and caught some flying squirrels. A few in the act! He said he hadn't seen a flying squirrel since he was a teenager...He's 73.
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OMG, I didn't know those evil beasts had an air force. :eek:
The ones in Twil's backyard are too fat to fly. I'd've taken a picture of them, but I don't have a wide angle lens. Positively convex.
Tis the season. One of my salesmen orders a turkey club sandwich every day for lunch. He doesn't eat the fries that come with it.
Saw a black squirrel in Norristown today
...but I'm not racist
Princeton is famous for black squirrels. Illegal Immigrant? Got over the wall??
Yeadon, PA, has them too. Probably jumped ship in Philly and snuck up Cobbs Creek. I think they speak Sicilian. :unsure:
Seen em in DE also as well as my neck of the woods. Perhaps they are migratory.
It's a genetic thing. They spread. Because if a gray and black squirrel mate, the offspring is black. They are easy pickings for predators though, and that keeps their numbers in check.
Incidentally, both gray colored squirrels and black colored squirrels are "gray squirrels" by classification.
Lots of literature on this.
Because if a gray and black squirrel mate, the offspring is black.
against with the racist
They are easy pickings for predators
FUCK DA POLICE! BLACK SQUIRREL LIVES MATTER
Yeadon, PA
I live just up the road from Yeadon (West Yorks)!
No black squirrels there that I'm aware of. Just babbits.
(Yes, the occasional black rabbit).
I believe the proper term is African-American squirrel...you racist bastidges.
Are squirrels stealing your fries, Bunky?
Stand up for your lunch, punch those bastids in the incisors.
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Damn, squrl, you is one gruesome sumbitch.How is worse than any other carnivore? I've seen people sloppier than that, sometimes in the mirror. :lol:
He was all content until he started chowing down on the large intestine. It was pretty full too.
Yes, the pate should be eaten first.
The national heart association would beg to differ. Remember, Ronald is playing the long game. ;)
The national heart association would beg to differ.
What? They think hamburgers are healthy?
What? They think hamburgers are healthy?
never mind, I thought the I killed more people than you was the scary clown.
Between this and the diabetes is a form of arthritis, I think I need some sleep.
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Please not to be eatin' m'three-legged squrl.
Here, Squirrely, Squirrely!
Come get some yummy treats!
What are you going to do with it once you catch it?
Here, Squirrely, Squirrely!
Come get some yummy treats!
How'd you know we was having fried squirrel brains for lunch Monday? I had a helluva time getting enough squirrels for pickled eyeballs. Eat them with a toothpick.
Here, Squirrely, Squirrely!
Run, squrly,
run!!Fucker decided to take up residence in the roof over my porch. I wanted to do him with the blow gun, but i might just injure him with that.
He gon' die.
Aw, man. Why kill him? Ya got a live trap there. Take him to a park or something.
He was born free, he should live, and die, free.
You kill that squrl and I'll report you to a game warden for hunting squrls out of season. You'd be a poacher. A felony perhaps. And a murderer.
Set him loose, somewhere else.
Besides, I'm not sure you can hunt squrls over bait.
Want him to mail it to you?
Do some research on relocation of squirrels
Same as cats, they'll be home before you will.
So wait, are squirrels rare enough there that you have just one on your porch and it's the only one you see on a daily basis? I'd guess I see maybe 50-100 squirrels a day, here*. There are currently 2 chasing each other in my backyard, probably a couple more up in the trees that I can't see.
*also counting dead ones on the road
Do some research on relocation of squirrels
Well, I'll be damned. Jim done learnt me something today.
I still wouldn't kill the squrl.
What would you do? There's wires in that place he's renovating. He could burn the house down.
Evictions are sad, but we are a nation of laws and everyone, including squirrels, must follow them... except rich people and politicians. :yesnod:
Personally, I would drive him out of the space by tossing a couple ammonia drenched rags up into the spot where he is nesting, and then after I know he's out, I would nail or staple chicken wire or hardware cloth over the opening.
I've got no real problem with killing him though, it's just that I am cheap and don't own a trap, but I have all that other stuff on hand in my junk filled basement.
Remember Jim went through this shit in the old house when they invaded his attic. :eyebrow:
What would you do? There's wires in that place he's renovating. He could burn the house down.
I understand your dilemma exact. The eaves of Gravdigr House are covered in a fine, stout wire screen. I just like squirrels. I don't know why I've taken issue with this situation, I've shot, killed, and eaten my body weight in squirrels over the years. It's kinda strange.
Take him ten miles away, it costs a couple of bucks.
Or kill it. How ya gonna do it?
Want him to mail it to you?
I'm picturing mayhem at every post office the package stops in.:p:
Chicken of the trees.... Yum...
should be served with broccoli florets to taunt the poor bastard in the afterlife....
Hmm... no meat should be served with broccoli, meat should be served broccoli.
Do some research on relocation of squirrels
... such as your cat
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... or have them to relocate one another
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But that would be like eating Lassie, or Trigger, or Rin Tin Tin.
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Save him, save him, save him... for lunch. :beer:
Game over
Nice!
But are you sure that's the correct one?
So...
How'd did you kill him?
Does NJ require a permit to trap wild animals?
Ya gonna make a hat, or what?
I drowned him. and it was definitely a him. Who knew squirrels had such big balls?
Worst part is.... about an hour later, Amanda saw another squirrel go up the post and into the roof. I think we either got the wrong squirrel, or more than one is living in there....
One day last week we came out, and the peanut butter was gone, the tray outside the trap, and lots of fur caught in the wires. We figured he either got out somehow, or the trap didn't close fully.....
either way, a week had gone by since then and I was about to give up and remove the trap.... thinking that he was smart enough to stay clear of it since that happened. Then this morning.... got him! but maybe not so much. I don't want to kill EVERY squirrel in my area. Maybe I'll get lucky and see him in blow gun range.
Well, that was humane...Like a little squrl Gitmo going on up there.
Being Jersey, I figured two behind the ear, and a one way ride to the Barrens.
Got another this morning. I remember this getting harder each time. I really hope this is the last one
You sure your last name ain't Soprano?:eyebrow:
What recipe are you using?
ha. we actually talked about that. When I was young, my buddy, Dan used to hunt them. I've eaten fried squirrel. Kind of gross, but we were being manly. There was a little tuft of hair on the leg I ate. ick.
squirrel burgers be the way to go.... Squrgers?
Squirgers. I like it. Made with squirrel, squid and squash. Serve with squiracha sauce and...
thank you.
my brain just couldn't do it
Squrl pee?
Squrl pee.
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One of the quirks of my new camera is that it doesn't like to shoot through multiple panes of filthy glass. If I use auto-focus I find that the area of focus is consistently 6-8 feet closer to the camera than I'm going for. I've been assuming this is caused by shooting through a filthy triple-pane window, on a downward angle.
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I larfed waaaay too hard at that. And Idk why. It's not that funny.
I thought it was funny. Reminds me of people feeding bears out the trunk of their cars in the Smokies. They run out of food and close the trunk. The bear opens the trunk back up and doesn't need a key.lol.
Good to hear from you Tarheel!
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1974 - Ted Nugent won a national squirrel-shooting contest after picking off a squirrel at 150 yards.
Look. At. The. Size. Of. His. Front. Legs.:3_eyes::eek:
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And before ya start...
Not mah squrl. Other side of the county, even.
Do you know why the Avengers had such a problem with Thanos?
Because they didn't have
Squirrel Girl.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Cellar, behold:
The Squirrel King
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Saw that; thought of you
Glad you posted it.
Prince Charles is 'infatuated' with squirrels, keeps 'nuts in his pockets'
He’s nuts for them!
Prince William has revealed that his father, Prince Charles, is absolutely obsessed with a certain type of squirrel.
“He is completely infatuated by the red squirrels that live around the [Birkhall] estate in Scotland,” Prince William told Country Life in a special edition of the British weekly guest-edited by Prince Charles himself.
He added that the Prince of Whales likes them, “to the extent that he’s given them names and is allowing them into the house.”
I tried to watch the whole thing before posting it, massive fail. Here ya go. SCF. Ya been warned.
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I have a huge grin on my face now
I've never tried it, but I'd be interesting to try it one day.
Good Morning Larenstop, Where are you from? What brought you Here? Don't mind me i'm KRAZY!!!
Welcome to the cellar.