DHEC catches Columbia area grocery store selling raccoon. (Greenville, Lexington: home, eat)

[g-man430]

Grab your opposums: Health Officials: Raccoon Meat Found At SC Grocery Store - Greenville News Story - WYFF Greenville

[Woodlands]

Damn now where am I going to go to get my coon on a cob....

[g-man430]

Originally Posted by Woodlands

Damn now where am I going to go to get my coon on a cob....

Eat opposum or squirrel instead. They kinda taste the same.

[LexingtonDad]

Raccoon. The other dark meat.

[gsupstate]

Originally Posted by g-man430

Grab your opposums: Health Officials: Raccoon Meat Found At SC Grocery Store - Greenville News Story - WYFF Greenville

This is absolutely sick.
The State has an article about this as well and it is shocking to see how many people commented defending the grocery store.

No raccoon meat in cooler, DHEC tells store - Local / Metro - TheState.com (http://www.thestate.com/2011/03/30/1756367/no-racoon-meat-in-cooler-dhec.html - broken link)

[Charlestondata]

We Columbians and others from the Midlands - we'll eat anything and defend to our deaths the right to do so, no matter who sells it.

[LexingtonDad]

In all seriousness my grandparents ate raccoon, possum, and squirrel pretty regularly in their day. I can see where there could still be a demand for it. And if you don't have the opportunity to hunt it yourself what options do you have?

I'd only be upset if the guy was selling it as something else. Like grinding it up into the hamburger or calling it tree pork and trying to sell it to yankee tourists.

[waccamatt]

Originally Posted by LexingtonDad

In all seriousness my grandparents ate raccoon, possum, and squirrel pretty regularly in their day. I can see where there could still be a demand for it. And if you don't have the opportunity to hunt it yourself what options do you have?

I'd only be upset if the guy was selling it as something else. Like grinding it up into the hamburger or calling it tree pork and trying to sell it to yankee tourists.

I don't think too many tourists make it to Gadsden.

[Palmetto_Guy]

Any true, born-and-bred South Carolinian knows that 'coon is a delicacy here. After all, we are home to the Great American Coon Hunt!

[Brandon Hoffman]

Just when I thought I'd heard it all...