[AZgarden]

Is this true?? I just saw this on the news this AM and it seems to be some type of festival or something with everyone cooking squirrels and making different dishes. Sorta like a contest.

It seems like some people would object to this but they all seemed very happy, eating their squirrel food.
Not a dish I would ever try, for sure. LOL

[jim9251]

I saw that on CBS Sunday morning show also. Squirrel is good cooked properly, and at a time was a mainstay of food for poor southerners. When I lived there I spent many a day squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle. Kids learned hunting basic squirrel hunting. Give them a .22 or a .410 shotgun and let them loose to bring home supper. Coat the squirrel with flour and deep fry. Tasty. I don't remember the National Squirrel Festival, they must have started it after I moved away.


Looks like fun.

[Hollynla]

I was born and raised in south Louisiana and squirrel is a common food to hunt and cook there too. Maybe it's not common everywhere though. My husband and sons like to hunt squirrel and I cook them in a large pot, sort of like a stew. I don't really care for the taste myself.

[Gunluvver2]

Originally Posted by PhxBarb

Is this true?? I just saw this on the news this AM and it seems to be some type of festival or something with everyone cooking squirrels and making different dishes. Sorta like a contest.

It seems like some people would object to this but they all seemed very happy, eating their squirrel food.
Not a dish I would ever try, for sure. LOL

You have to be from the city. Believe me when I tell you that when fixed correctly young rabbit, squirrel, pheasant,quail etc is some of the be eating on the Planet.

[jim9251]

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[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by PhxBarb

Is this true?? I just saw this on the news this AM and it seems to be some type of festival or something with everyone cooking squirrels and making different dishes. Sorta like a contest.

It seems like some people would object to this but they all seemed very happy, eating their squirrel food.
Not a dish I would ever try, for sure. LOL

I've had it several times here in Oklahoma. You have to shoot a mess of 'em to get enough meat though.

It tastes very good. Not "gamey" at all. Fried squirrel really does taste like fried chicken, just saltier and a tad slicker.

[Rock Climber]

The event is sort of a "we get the hillbilly jokes" type of event.

Bentonville has several fine restaurants. Squirrel is not on the menu.



And for the record, when I was a kid, I shot a squirrel with a bb gun, and built a "campfire" to put it on a spit and BBQ it. I did the same a few times when I caught perch. Only time I've ever had squirrel!!

[2nd trick op]

From 1952, presented without comment:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IGhyPB0NAw

[Normashirley]

Don't knock it 'til ya try it.

I will say it takes a lot more talent to make wild game tasty than it does to fix up a good dish of domestic meat.

Squirrel is great when it's fixed right.

Rattlesnake tastes a good bit like chicken.

I was raised in the north. Back when I was a kid, folks that hunted actually ate what they shot because money was scarce to put food on the table.

The only trophy hunters we heard about were the city slickers who looked like they had just stepped out of "Field and Stream"; a hunting/fishing magazine that's been around since Moby Dick was a minnow

Sorry folks but the thread title stuck out like a sore thumb and I just had to comment. I will now go back to my retirement corner in Middle Tennessee

[Linda_d]

When we were kids, we frequently had squirrel or rabbit because my dad hunted. This was in rural Upstate NY. I definitely prefer squirrel or rabbit to venison, but none of my friends or relatives bother to hunt small game; they're all deer, turkey or varmint hunters.