Ya I work with a colored feller from Mississippi that says coons are good.... And that's not a pun....
Was up to camp with my grandpa 60 years or so ago and he was cooking a coon my uncle had shot. He parboiled it for an hour at least to boil some of the fat off of it, then popped it into a covered turkey roasting pan with a pile of onions (and a dose of his home brew, IIRC). He roasted that bad boy in the oven of his wood-burning cook stove until the meat just slid off the bones. When he piled up a plate for me, I admit I was a little wary. I asked him what raccoon tasted like, and he answered, “Well it doesn’t taste like beef, and it doesn’t taste like chicken. It just tastes like coon!” Indeed it did! I ate a couple of platefuls.
