Does Anyone Eat Raccoon
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OneInTheBoiler
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I don't but my friend does, he says nothing better than a Groundhog.
It's been a few years since I ate raccoon but I liked it. It reminded me of muskrat a bit, very dark meat and quite fat, much finer grain but kind of like black bear in the dark color. I'd trim off all of the fat that I could before cooking, which we did as I recall. We ususally baked/roasted it in a nest of potatoes and carrots, but we fried up some young raccoon once, like squirrel.
It is probably one of the only meats that nobody will describe as, "It's kind of like chicken."
It is probably one of the only meats that nobody will describe as, "It's kind of like chicken."
rangerider7
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There was an old man I met at the Waxahachie Gun Show that has a standing order of 40 raccoons for a super bowl party every year in the old project area off Singleton Ave in Dallas. The black guy throwing the party gives him $5.00 a piece for them. He shoots them in a secret place on the Trinity River bottom. I ate coon at my grandad's when I was little. He was a trapper and didn't like to spend money on meat at the food store. I guess it was alright, but I didn't know what I was eating till later.
Two-0-four
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When I was a kid we ate coon all the time. We always had a few in the freezer. Roast it in the oven over potatoes similar to a pork roast and near the end of cooking time turn up the heat so the what fat is on it gets crispy. I never ate a strong tasting one so I'm not sure about the boar or sow thing. They all tasted fine to me. The only reason we stopped eating them was because of a big rabies epidemic where I lived in the 70's and the old timer that used to take me along coon hunting died in that time frame also.
Don't knock until you try it. If they can eat bugs, slugs and roaches on those reality shows then whats wrong with trying a little coon meat?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
Don't knock until you try it. If they can eat bugs, slugs and roaches on those reality shows then whats wrong with trying a little coon meat?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
coonhounds will /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif might have to fight'em for it if you want it that bad. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif I prefer the grocery store.
Although "cajun coon special" almost sounds do'able. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
There are probaly some jokes that could come from this.
I don't drink cheap beer, I don't date fat women and I don't eat coon
Show me the beef,........ It's 2006 not 1706.
Although "cajun coon special" almost sounds do'able. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
There are probaly some jokes that could come from this.
I don't drink cheap beer, I don't date fat women and I don't eat coon
Show me the beef,........ It's 2006 not 1706.
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racoons are on a different rung of the food chain than I am accustomed to eating off of.
Accustomed is the operative word here. I'm in general agreement with the list but what my palette is accustomed to has nothing to do with how good or bad the culinary qualities of things that I don't eat. The mountain men rated cougar as the best meat in N. America, better than buffalo, elk or wild sheep. I'd have to agree though I've never totally gotten over a brain quirk once in awhile when I remember that I'm eating cat.
As to others on the list, marmot is superb, though I've only eaten golden marmot and not the hoary. Muskrats are very good to my taste as are groundhogs and various larger ground squirrels. (Added later: I think the correct name is yellow bellied marmot rather than golden. Indians considered them top eating.)
Of snakes, I've only eaten rattlesnakes and they are very good tasting meat if it weren't for all of the bones. Like frog meat on a long chicken neck.
For a lot of these,it is just good to know what we could fall back on if needed.
racoons are on a different rung of the food chain than I am accustomed to eating off of.
Accustomed is the operative word here. I'm in general agreement with the list but what my palette is accustomed to has nothing to do with how good or bad the culinary qualities of things that I don't eat. The mountain men rated cougar as the best meat in N. America, better than buffalo, elk or wild sheep. I'd have to agree though I've never totally gotten over a brain quirk once in awhile when I remember that I'm eating cat.
As to others on the list, marmot is superb, though I've only eaten golden marmot and not the hoary. Muskrats are very good to my taste as are groundhogs and various larger ground squirrels. (Added later: I think the correct name is yellow bellied marmot rather than golden. Indians considered them top eating.)
Of snakes, I've only eaten rattlesnakes and they are very good tasting meat if it weren't for all of the bones. Like frog meat on a long chicken neck.
For a lot of these,it is just good to know what we could fall back on if needed.
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trashcan
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In the early eighties we employed an older gentleman from south of the border and when we would go spotlighting he would help us skin the nights take and then bbq the coon carcasses. It wasn't half bad but I needed mine pretty salted up. He told us that he survived the walk north (he was from deeeep mexico) by eating coons, possums, and cats. He also taught me and my brother how to make handmade tortillas (lard and flour, no preservitaves) that were better than any store bought tortilla. He was a pretty cool old dude, especially to a 14 year old kid.
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Ridge Runner
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my grandma used to roast them on occasion, they were pretty good but they have worms bad now, kinda takes the fun out of it.
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