eating squirrels

I was browsing some recipies off a newspaper and what do I see?
Two squirrel recipies!
I don't know how I would feel eating a squirrel...my children play with them all the time.
Have you ever tasted one before?

 

I haven't eaten squirrel Miraflores, but I hear they are very nice - a bit like chicken.
We have red squirrels round here so don't think we would get away with eating them.

 

Cant think why you would want to, most of the ones I see are really skinny, might make a reasonable squirrel stock if boiled long enough.

But unless your one of those very strange, "live off the land", type people I cant see the point.

 

If I recall, the gypsies used to eat roast hedgehogs. Wrapped in mud and placed in the embers of a fire. When cooked the prickles would come off with the mud leaving a nice little roast!

 

Have not over here. But heard its more bones than meat.

 

So, would you eat rat?:D

 

I watched a children's program last week I think on Sunday morning called 'Gastronauts'. Its a science program aimed at children to introduce them to where our REAL food comes from and why it is better than the fast food rubbish.

Last week there was a section all about eating the tree climbing rats and how for our native red squirrels to once again inhabit all our forests and park lands it is a good thing if British people begin chowing down on this vermin.

 

I was under the impression that red squirrels prefer confers to broad leaved habitats.

Perhaps I'm wrong.

But if that is the case I dont think there would be many living in my area, so I'm just wondering if all the bad press about the grey squirrel, regarding running out the red, is really founded.

I dont say its not happening in certain places, but perhaps slightly overstated????

 

We have Red squirrels on Brown Sea Island just off the coast from me. They are very very tame and I think this could have some thing to do with there demise?

I was cleaning windows on the castle and one ran up my leg! I did get a photo on my phone at the time but the phone is long dead with the photo so only the memory left.

 

was that inside the trousers or outside:D

 

lol out side of course. No room inside mine

 

well I've heard they do it with ferrets