Do you really eat Coon?

[GayleTX]

I learned about sweetbreads (thymus glands) when working in the Ag Dept Meat Lab at Texas Tech....we'd sometimes get leftovers when they were using a carcass for research. Couldn't stand to touch them or cook them, but that didn't keep me from eating them after hubby cooked them. Don't suppose there is anywhere you can buy them....never have seen them in a meatmarket anyhow.

[bostoner]

Originally Posted by GayleTX

I learned about sweetbreads (thymus glands) when working in the Ag Dept Meat Lab at Texas Tech....we'd sometimes get leftovers when they were using a carcass for research.

Between this and the gopher snake *** dinner incident above, this has been a most enlightening thread...

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by CherryMagic

Everything tastes like chicken!

Rabbit - squirrel - frog legs
Rattlesnake to me is kind of bland - so is alligator.

When I lived in Northern Louisiana I tried squirrel brains -cooked in a heavy gravy - head and all - that had to be some of the weirdest &^%$ I have ever seen & ate. You take their little jaw, break it back - pull out the tongue - you get the picture. Break open the skull...it was rather sickening. But the gravy was really tasty, I still make it to this day.

Eat a racoon? OMG - I would never!

No, coon is better than chicken, I love it barbecued yum yum.

[case44]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

No, coon is better than chicken, I love it barbecued yum yum.

And you can toss in some onion rings on the side.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by case44

And you can toss in some onion rings on the side.

Of course, onion rings go with everything

[TexaCo Mom]

Originally Posted by GayleTX

I learned about sweetbreads (thymus glands) when working in the Ag Dept Meat Lab at Texas Tech....we'd sometimes get leftovers when they were using a carcass for research. Couldn't stand to touch them or cook them, but that didn't keep me from eating them after hubby cooked them. Don't suppose there is anywhere you can buy them....never have seen them in a meatmarket anyhow.

You should be able to find them just about anywhere in Texas. I would ask the butcher at your local HEB about them.

[TX_AGGIE13]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

LOL. Yeah, you are probably right, there!

Thanks for the info. I didn't realize one had to be a property owner though.

He is on the money above. I know that seasons can be opened at anytime in Texas by Texas Parks and Wildlife. These are not yearly occourances though. The license I believe is called a GAINS license, I could be off, but if I remember right. I lived around Lake Livingston, and had a body of water that come off of it and flowed through our ranch as a kid, and my father had a license at once. I don't wanna incriminate myself, but many people hunt them without licenses. I wakeboard year round, and so does the local Game Warden from my home county. A few years back gators were becoming a neusance on White Rock where we ski, so he actually went out with us one night spotlighting them. I wouldn't suggest this by any means though...lol.