Racoon ?

[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.