Eating Squirrels and Bugs--?

[onecent]

mealworm cookies!

... like they say in Texas...EL Paso!

 

[Tuffoldhen]

We have a gun squirrel hunting season here in WV. DH and all our families have been squirrel hunters since they were little. Always have a mess of squirrel acouple times a year from the freezer. Pressure cooked and rolled in seasoned flour and fried. Biscuits and gravy, yum!


Sorry no bug eating here

 

[Lyddz]

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Yeah, I know, I know, I keep telling my grandpa that, but if it's not books it's decorative baskets, if it's not decorative baskets it's linen placemats. He's a regular at auctions of all kinds so they give him all kinds of free/leftover stuff, which he usually burns. He's not a fan of my "Use Everything or Give It Away" motto, and I'm TOTALLY NOT a fan of "If It's Flammable..." one

Honestly, I was looking more at crickets and grasshoppers than mealworms and caterpillars, but there's gotta be at least one dish out there to persuade me... On a related topic, what about frogs?

 

[thaiturkey]

Bugs are a delicacy in Thailand but I won't go anywhere near them. One supermarket in our Provincial city has cooked bug stalls outside its entrance - enough to put me off shopping there for proper food.

Here's a website for anyone in the US interested in good Thai food. The link page is information about Thai bugs dishes but look at the rest of the website too. I doubt whether they offer bugs for sale in the US!

http://importfood.com/thai_insects.html

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Squirrels are great eatin'. The best are the young ones. Good fried, in dumplings, stews or just cooked over a spit on an open fire.

Bugs taste like... well, bugs. They are full of protein and are good for you, but the only ones I've ate that actually tasted good are a few kinds of ants (Taste sorta like nuts). Grasshoppers, crickets and such are MUCH improved by frying. Grubs are nasty no matter how you fix them.

Yeah, I know. I'm nuts.

 

[dewey]

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Yeah, I know, I know, I keep telling my grandpa that, but if it's not books it's decorative baskets, if it's not decorative baskets it's linen placemats. He's a regular at auctions of all kinds so they give him all kinds of free/leftover stuff, which he usually burns. He's not a fan of my "Use Everything or Give It Away" motto, and I'm TOTALLY NOT a fan of "If It's Flammable..." one

Honestly, I was looking more at crickets and grasshoppers than mealworms and caterpillars, but there's gotta be at least one dish out there to persuade me... On a related topic, what about frogs?

Frog giggin was a weekly thing when possible and frog legs were always raved over. Don't care for the flavor myself unless it's really, really, deep battered and deep fried to oblivion...then it tastes just like chicken, lol, same as snake and so many other things that have more batter than meat.

 

[gryeyes]

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Check with your hunting friends that go where the squirrels are in fall/winter hunting season...maybe they'd spare ya a couple from their freezer.

Hmm. Don't have many of those. Most folks around here are grocery store foodies. And I think if I posted something on CraigsList - "Looking for squirrel meat or skinned/cleaned squirrels for eating" - I might just get banned.

But I really would like to try some.

 

[Fleabuskitty]

Squirrels are deicious

My mom's boyfriend hunts and we get a lot of the meat from deer and pigs he kills. Fried squirrel taste just like fried chicken to me, only smaller. There's barely any meat on them, so you need multiple squirrels for an actual meal.
I remember one time my mom told me she was on the phone with her boyfriend and asked him what he was doing. His reply? "Frying a squirrel and a rabbit for dinner."

About the crickets, I keep crickets for my two lizards and I'm planning on giving some to my chickens when I get them in April.
They actually sell chocolate covered crickets and mealworms at a lot of places, my little sister and my aunt love them, but I won't eat them

. I leave the cricket eating to the lizards