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"Outside of the higher elevations in the Green Mountains and Northeast Kingdom, . . ."
Vermont has a kingdom? Who's the king?
(someone post a squirrel with a crown)
Posted by: bonmot | August 31, 2009 at 09:34 AM
As Granny Clampett would say, "squirrels are good eatin'."
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 31, 2009 at 09:37 AM
You'll all be sorry when they've been hunted to near extinction.
Posted by: Clankazoid | August 31, 2009 at 09:47 AM
sqirrels IS good eatin'... wait. i've never et em. dont wanna. feh.
but i shore would love to kill the little bastids. maybe hang em on the utility wires like an old pr of sneakers.
Posted by: queensbee | August 31, 2009 at 09:47 AM
Spoken like a true New Yorker, queensbee.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | August 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Tree rats, if you ask me....
Posted by: Coconuts | August 31, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Squirrel season opens Tuesday? Maybe I should get my little plastic squirrel out of the flower bed. I will admit that I have seen Brunswick stew made with squirrel. I did not eat it.
Posted by: nursecindy | August 31, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Saw an article written by an outdoorsman who said growing up, breakfast sometimes would include a bowl of fried squirrel heads. Said his dad would crack them open with the back of a knife and smear the brains on his eggs.
Good times.
Posted by: bonmot | August 31, 2009 at 11:56 AM
Squirrel BE good eatin'. I used to hunt them all the time in East Texas, but the police frown on the practice in the big city. The meat is excellent. My dad used to eat the brains, but I never could.
Posted by: philinTexas | August 31, 2009 at 01:48 PM
Nothing wrong with squirrel; I grew up in the Ozarks, and as a child hunted and "et" plenty of them.
Fried squirrel with fried potatoes and squirrel gravy...mmmmm.
Although this is the first time I've heard of "fried squirrel heads" and cracking them open to get the brains. We always discarded the heads and brains with the rest of the offal; for that matter, when hunting we always aimed for the head where possible so as to avoid damage to the edible bits.
My grandparents also had recipes for such critters as raccoon (which I've had) crawdads (blecch) and groundhog (which I've luckily missed out on).
Posted by: Wes S. | August 31, 2009 at 02:00 PM
My brother-in-law used to hunt squirrels with a shotgun because he said they could out-run a .22. He said you just had to be careful when eating them to spit out the shot.
'course, I never found out. There's a heap of difference between hunting and bagging.
Posted by: Steve | August 31, 2009 at 05:19 PM
Be sure to watch POV's "Nutkin's Last Stand" on PBS. (Check program listings for broadcasts in your area.) or watch online, and get Famous Wild Boar Hotel's Chef Marc Sanders' recipe for poached squirrel roll.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | August 31, 2009 at 05:37 PM
Julia Child would be impressed.
Posted by: Loudmouth | August 31, 2009 at 09:53 PM