A matter of taste and tradition

I saw Mike Huckabbe on the MSNBC news talk about cooking squirrel in a popcorn popper in his dorm room in college. The reporter was amazed and believed Huckabee was telling tall tails. They went so far as to contact his room mate to check his story. The room mate confirmed that Mike was truthful. When ask about the taste of fried squirrel he couldn’t give an answer, he said I can tell you it does not taste like chicken.
Being a southern country girl I can tell you exactly what fried squirrel taste like. Squirrel taste like mama’s cooking, nothing ever tastes better.
If you are lucky and kill young squirrels you roll them in flour and fry them in hog lard now if the squirrel is older you put them in a pot and boil away for several hours making a soft dough mixed with a little hog lard and drop the dough in the rich broth continue cooking until the dough balls have soaked up the rich broth and they are cooked through and through.
The reporter said. Squirrels are rodents, how could you eat a rodent? Squirrels only eat nuts and grain so if they are rodents they are a clean rodent.
I have seen reports about Huckabee eating horse meat. To my knowledge I have never tasted horse buggers but our friends to the north do eat horse meat I am told.
This photo of a squirrel was snapped by my friend in Georgia. Dot gave me permission to use it.
If Huckabee fails in his run for the white house, as I believe he will he can always come home to Arkansas and live off the land! possible living a better life. I have heard stories of the strange eating habits in DC.
Talking about eating habits, have you heard about blood pudden?
My father’s friend told us story years ago about taking dinner with an old German couple. Jack said the lady had a delicious dinner prepared and the hit of the dinner delights was a dish of some sort of pudden. Jack ate every spoonful and when finished he was ask, Mr. Robertson would you like another helping of blood pudding? Jack gulped and replied no, I think I am finished.