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Rizak the Really Horrible

Mmmmm, them's good eatin'!

This one's for Rafael. He knows why.

Raccoon back on the menu at fundraiser
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HIBERNIA, Ind. (AP) - After a four-year absence, raccoon is back on the menu for the Hibernia Community Building's annual fundraiser.

LaVeran Lorenz, 86, has agreed to resume cooking duties for the March 24 event - with a little help with the cleaning. "It's not like cleaning a chicken, I'll tell you that," said Dina Woods, one of Lorenz's neighbors who agreed to learn how to clean raccoons for cooking.

Allus Franklin and other hunters in the town on Hibernia Road off Indiana 62 about 20 miles north of Louisville, Ky., have bagged 103 raccoons for the event. "When they told us, we'd already caught 40," he said.

"It's the biggest day in Hibernia, I think," Woods said.

However, Lorenz, who had handled much of the raccoon cooking duty for every fundraiser since the early 1950s, begged off after the 2002 event. The 21 members of the Owen Township Homemakers since have prepared chili and ham and beans for fundraisers, but people have pleaded with the cook to bring raccoon back to the table.

Helen Sue Sneed, a daughter of Lorenz's, said she wasn't surprised her mother agreed.

"It's what keeps her going," Sneed said. "She enjoys being around people. That's a big part of it."

Turkey will also be served for those who don't have a taste for the wild meat, along with dressing and gravy, parsley potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans and rolls.

Franklin said raccoon meat's flavor is similar to pork.

"You'd be surprised," he said. "People like them."
Cab

We don't get raccoons over here. But eating squirrel is getting more popular (link below not for the feint hearted)

http://www.downsizer.net/Projects...Preparing_a_Squirrel_for_the_Pot/
Rafael

That poor squirrel...

(As a general rule, I don't like racoons, though I pity that poor animal as well...)

No idea why I usually have no objection eating pork or chicken, though...
Cab

If the animal lived happily then I'll eat it; sooner a squirrel that had a good life in the wild or a rabbit that lived in a field than anything out of a factory farm. Squirrel tastes great, and grey squirrels are such a pest in some forestry plantations in the UK that they're shot in huge numbers. Mostly they're just thrown away, which I rekon is a shame.
Rafael

So, how do they taste? :smt001
Cab

Like rabbit, but they're more tender and sweeter. Very tasty.
VAN

I think I'll call the animalists! How can people eat these poor animals? [smilie=pdt_aliboronz_22.gif] :idiot2:
Cab

VAN wrote:
I think I'll call the animalists! How can people eat these poor animals? [smilie=pdt_aliboronz_22.gif] :idiot2:


Usually I use a knife and fork
Rafael

LOL!

I plan a trip to England next year... Maybe I'll try some squirrel then...
Rhuvein

Well, I've heard squirrel pie is good too.

But alas, I think I'll forgo this weird "food" and stick to good vittles like . . . lobster, oysters, snails, shrimp, gator, crawdads, octopus, squid, mussels, dolphin, shark fin soup, etc.! Now that's excellent cuisine - seriously!!

Cab

Rafael wrote:

I plan a trip to England next year... Maybe I'll try some squirrel then...


Regrettably, while squirrels are culled quite regularly in some places, its still hard to get squirrel to eat. You have to know someone who shoots, which means that thousands of the critters just get shot and wasted. Shame, eh?
Rafael

Hehehe... Gues sno squirrel on my plate, then...
Havard

Cab wrote:
Regrettably, while squirrels are culled quite regularly in some places, its still hard to get squirrel to eat. You have to know someone who shoots, which means that thousands of the critters just get shot and wasted. Shame, eh?


Shoot squirrels? Buh-but they are so cute!

Bah, give me a decent Whale steak any day!

Havard
Rizak the Really Horrible

I tried giraffe once, but found its taste too similar to tiger for my liking.

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