Well, there's one less raccoon in my barn today!

Raccoons taste nasty. I'll never eat another raccoon. Yuck.

Wow, you've really eaten raccoon? I can't tell if you're kidding or not.

I've never eaten raccoon. Taste like chicken?

Me neither. Taste like road-kill?

I've eaten the following animals:

Cow (both beef & veal)
Pig
Chicken
Goose (yuck)
Duck (yuck)
Quail (yum)
Dove (yum)
Squab (yum) (pigeon)
Rabbit (yum!)
Rattlesnake (bbq'd, baked, & deep fried)
Venison (both buck & doe) (deer)
Elk (both bull & cow)
Antelope (buck)
Bear (yuck)
Raccoon (yuck)
Goat (yuck)
Lamb (meh)
Shark (lemon shark was so-so)
Clam
Blue crab
Octopus
Squid
Catfish
Bass
Trout
Turtle (yuck)
Cricket / ants (chocolate covered)
Grasshopper (fried)

I refuse to eat aquatic things any more - I just won't. So if I said I've eaten it, means I've really eaten it. I may have eaten other things as I ate a lot of Vietnamese / Korean food as a youngster (yum!).

I have eaten raccoon, years ago when I lived up North, there was a tavern that had a "coon" feed every fall. I don't know how they prepared it, but it was really good. Tasted a lot like pork, but not as greasy. I remember them saying that one had to trim all of the fat from it. Anyone ever eaten porcupine? I have, and now that is nasty! More like chewing on a block of wood bark. Never tried possom, don't think I want to either. Used to eat gray squirl, rough grouse, woodcock, and most of the wild game available in the woods. Dad was a good hunter, and money was scarce, we often lived off the land. Often if we didn't have wild game, there would be no meat on the table. Funny how things have changed.

Oh damn, forgot squirrel. Haven't had squirrel in about 30 years. Father was also a very good hunter and he loved dragging me out away from my cartoons to go dove/quail/rabbit hunting. I didn't mind that much as I knew that it would mean a nommy dinner that night. Never tried possom or porcupine. Dunno if you can actually eat porcupine. I'd imagine that it would definitely taste like wood bark. Never tried beaver, either.. wrong part of the country when I was a kid. Wild turkey always tastes nasty to me, like juniper berries. We raised a couple of piggies when I was a teen and, for the last month of their lives, they ate lots of canned corn, corn mash, & yogurt (we were friends with a food wholesaler, so any food that was past date, we got. Those pigs ate like kings! Ice cream, cheese, yogurt, even a 5gal bucket of bavarian cream for donuts!)

We would raise a pair of pigs now and then to butcher. My dad would bring home a couple of milk cans full of whey from the cheese factory every few days. They sure liked it. My mom would mix some ground pork with the ground venison. Made really good burgers!

On the 'not the run of the mill' food list, I've had moose (purple meat and way to much of it), antelope (sweet), venison, snipe (half a bite), frogs legs ( DO NOT taste like chicken), woodchuck (not something I'd ever recommend), squirrel, duck, goose, wild turkey that had been eating out of a corn crib - very nice, pheasant (very nice). The first time Stan came over for a family dinner, my mother decided to clean out all of the little critters my brothers had been stuffing in the freezer. It was a very odd meal and I said, "Mom, he's going to think we're poor!" and she said, "We are!" We all survived, his folks were farmers, too.

What's snipe? I haven't heard of it. Father claims that moose is the most nommy meat, but you're not gonna see too many moose in NM. Same with woodchucks (besides, they're too cute to eat), and pheasant. Mom loves frogs' legs, but I'm not one for eating amphibians. It's not about being poor, it's about having an open mind about trying new things. We were not rich growing up, too, but that didn't mean we were "poor" 'cuz I had far more life experiences than most kids in my school! Damned proud to be from the 'wrong side of the tracks'.

I had a few different items also, Rattlesnake ( Like) Buffalo ( Like) Venison ( Nope) Snipe ( too chewey) Ostridge ( was OK) And
unknowingly had Kangaroo ( good)

Shannon - did you have kangaroo from Jack in the Box? I remember a big stink when I was a kid that they were accidentally selling burgers made of kangaroo meat rather than beef. I can't afford ostridge the few times I've ever seen it... always like over $10/lb. I have tried bison, but I didn't like it at all & all I tried was just a tiny sample.

What is snipe?

I love frog legs, haven't had them in a while, as you don't see them on menus down here, but up North very common. Buffalo is sold in my grocery store here in town, it's not bad, I've had ostrich in a restaurant, there were a bunch of us who wanted to try it, so we ordered one steak and shared it just so we could taste it. It was very much like beef steak in flavor. I live near the second largest pheasant farm in the US. I love pheasant with a current/whiskey sause. MMMMMMMMM guess I have to make that one of these days. Can you tell, I'm hungry and haven't had dinner yet?

I have eaten squab (young pigeon), deer, moose, quail, frogs legs, pheasant, (wild) bear, rabbit, cougar, duck, Canada goose, prairie oysters (weird), eel, snails,(disliked) and bison.

Would like to try ostrich.

Haven't you ever been snipe hunting, Toni?

PPal - if I knew what a snipe *was*.... but no, I don't think so. Only rabbit/dove/quail/deer. I was the fisherman of the family.

snipe hunting is a big joke for the uninitiated...... the jokers take someone out snipe hunting, usually give them a big bag to hold and they're supposed to catch the snipe as the other run it their way .... way in the woods.... leave them there and all go back to town. Leave the newbie literally 'holding the bag' and a long walk back to town. :)

I was lucky in that my sister was 4 years older and she fell for it hook line and sinker so I heard her whole story. When I got a bit older I was no way falling for that one!

(I did, however, go door to door at one point in a scavenger hunt asking for a Sky Hook) :D

snipe are little wading birds that live on the verges of swamps, like the big one we had down at the bottom of the hill. They are about the size of squab. Forgot that I'd eaten buffalo burger, it was amazingly tough.

I had Kangaroo not knowingly. A resturant in Jersey was selling it as Filet, they were closed down for
a short time BUT,re-opened and had a line just waiting for more Roo steaks LOL

Snipe hunting