Racoon ?

[superdown]

Does anybody eat it ? 

[CP]

 

[Curly]

I think Longtatlaw does.

[runamuk]

yes people eat it and I hear its good...I also thought eww gross but I also for some reason think of city coons and trash eating.....they eat a diet much like a bear so would have to guess they might be ok eating...and I am a brave girl so eventually will try it.... and people eat raw slimy oysters and call them good 

[Curly]

eww.......raw oysters.......

[superdown]

how would you cook it ?

[Curly]

how would you cook it ?

I don't know, but it would have to be very well done to get rid of any trichinosis.

[Curly]

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zracoon.html

[runamuk]

would cook it same as pork or bear or cougar well done 170 degrees temp internally....all omnivores and carnivores can carry trichinosis

[buckhorn2]

One thing I would do is make sure and cook it at somebody elses house.

[Curly]

Did you see this recipe from that link I posted? :

Roasted Raccoon and Yams


~ 1 raccoon, dressed
~ 2 red pepper pods
~ 1 tsp salt
~ 1/4 tsp pepper
~ 1/8 tsp sage
~ 2 tbsp lemon juice
~ 4 large yams, peeled and quartered
~ 1/4 cup brown sugar
~ 1/2 cinnamon
~ 1/8 tsp ginger

Place the raccoon in a large pot with the peppers. Cover with water, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.

Remove raccoon from the pot and place on a rack in a roasting pan.

Pour the lemon juice on the raccoon. Sprinkle on the salt, pepper and sage.

Place the yams in the pan around the raccoon. Add 1 cup of water.

Mix together the brown sugar, cinnamon and ginger.
Sprinkle on the yams.

Cover and bake at 325 degrees for 2 hours or until the meat is crisp and brown.

Transfer to a serving platter.

Serve and Enjoy!

I thought I'd get to the end and it would say to eat the yams and throw away the rest.  



Actually, it does sound pretty good.  I'd probably try it.  It is funny how a person can get something in their head like how gross raccoon would be to eat, and yet it probably really is good if given a chance.  (Now I wish I hadn't blasted that coon in my yard 3-times with the 12 ga.)  

[superdown]

doesn't sound to bad.

[wapiti hunter2]

Dam things eat my chickens for food.  How bad could they taste?

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Dam things eat my chickens for food.  How bad could they taste?

[superdown]

Dam things eat my chickens for food.  How bad could they taste?

[carpsniperg2]

  racoon

[klickitat]

When I was a kid, we were quite poor. My dad was a trapper and on several occasions we ate the catch of the day.

We had raccoon a few times. The ones that had been eating apples were pretty good. The ones caught on the creeks would gag a maggot.

I will never eat an opossum again unless starving to death.

Now beaver was the best Thanksgiving dinner I ever ate or at least the most memorable one.

Cougar by far and away was the best of any of it and every year I do not get a cougar, my wife gets upset. We got some cougar meat from her uncle one year and now she is hooked.

[jdb]

Now beaver was the best Thanksgiving dinner I ever ate or at least the most memorable one..

I ve enjoyed beaver on many occasions

[Curly]

 

[270Shooter]

Now beaver was the best Thanksgiving dinner I ever ate or at least the most memorable one..

I ve enjoyed beaver on many occasions

[carpsniperg2]

were they the brazilan beaver or the north american bald beaver

[ICEMAN]

 

[saylean]

I got one right now sleeping up in a tree in front of my house with a blue jay going ape chit over it....

wish I lived in the country...

coonskin cap time!

[mhadix]

BBQ raccoon is good. ate it quite a few times.

[Austrian Hunter]

Did anyone see double survivor last night, they cooked up a porcupine, it looked pretty good, I would eat it!

[CastleRocker]

I've eaten racoon, it tasted like strong bear.  We tried a porcupine one time, it tasted like a really strong, greasy bear.  Don't think I'd go out of my way to eat either again.

However, now that I think about it; I'm sure we all have eaten deer and elk, that were so strong or tough, that if that was our only taste of it, we would probably not want it again either.  So maybe I should give it another chance...

Is it 'coon season right now?

[JackOfAllTrades]

It's always coon and beaver season! 

-Steve

[NRA4LIFE]

I've eaten it at least a dozen times.  The trick is in the cleaning.  They have some foul glands in their legs that have to be removed before cooking them or they WILL be nasty.  My dad roasts them until tender and then removes all the bones and adds barbeque sauce for sandwiches.  Not bad.  Every year at the deer camp in Wisconsin, we had roast coon with sauerkraut and dumplings one night.  Very tasty.