Starling breast, pigeon, woodchuck, squirrel, muskrat, raccoon, beaver, mtn lion - (thanks Bob Burrows), alligator, rattle snake, python, honey bee larva, cottontail and snowshoe rabbit, possum, turtle, frog legs, fish worms, grasshopper, porcupine. Ate a chunk o skunk once at a church game dinner. Managed to swallow and keep it down. When eating skunk you KNOW what you are eating! You probably also know who prepared it.
Things I'd rather not eat again - Raccoon, fish worm, skunk.
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I have eaten beaver (cue the jokes). It was pretty good. I haven't tried it yet but I have heard that porcupine is good. The worst thing that I have tried was lake trout. I had heard that they were not great to eat but I gave it a try. I was surprised to find it inedible.
Funny, I have eaten quite a bit of lake trout and find it delicious!! We are picky about trimming away the dark meat. We used to go to Lake Ontario each year for salmon and lake trout, and we would get quite a bit of fish that way!
That's interesting. I generally like fish so I was surprised how distasteful I found it. It was about a 28" fish (5 or 6 pounds maybe?). I have heard that the smaller ones are better. I like salmon but after since then, I release all of the lake trout that I catch.
4winds: Indeed I have eaten Rock Chuck, Porcupine, Cougar and wild Beaver. And as an aside when I was a young man I had a new neighbor that was an Arkansas native. He wanted me to keep some of the large Carp I was bow Hunting out of Lake Sammamish out in Washington state, for him to eat! I did so and he kept urging me to eat some with him. Finally I did and by golly that fresh water Carp tasted pretty good! I had heard all my life that Carp were not fit to eat. I don't know what he brined and battered those Carp in but they tasted pretty good to me. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
A few of the local restaurants around Kentucky and Barclay Lakes have been serving up those Asian Carp that have inundated both lakes. Reports are that it's very good to eat but it's very bony.
In China the Asian Carp has been domesticated for consumption. But they prefer those which are wild. This place ships all it can handle.
Bristoe: Thanks for that information. Where I come from most all people considered Carp Varmints - and when they were captured they were often chopped up and buried in Rose beds as fertilizer. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
When I was young,the caretaker who allowed me to hunt his property for ground hogs, requested that I leave them on his back porch.He told me they were good to eat.I took his word for this because they didn't look good to me.
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my squirrel dogs treed a groundhog while in high school. shot him out, and he fell in the creek. dogs dragged him out and finished him off.
grandmom cooked him. ugh, he must have been feasting on kudzu for a spell. it wasn't to my liking or anyone elses. not sure about the dogs.
have eaten any number of perfectly delicious possums that granddad caught in rabbit traps or with his dog ol jigs, the do it all farm dog, a brindle plott.
he'd (the possum) git put in a round barrel with a lid on top. he'd be fed cornbread and water for a spell, then the barrel would be moved to a new spot of dirt.
after fattening him up, grandma would do the deed in the wood stove oven after grandpa got the hair off in a pot of hot water. gutted him and into the baker he went.
sweet potatoes and oven roasted possum don't hardly get no better.
my great uncle, a machine gunner on a tank in WW1 would eat crow as necessary.
he came home unemployed, not much going on in that part of appalacia, so he hunted & fished.
he said crow was a red meat, and if not cooked for a spell it tended to be chewy and tough. not much fat.
Have never ate a varmint, and have no desire to. Have seen too many possums eating dead animals, and I don't see any difference between them and a buzzard. Having said that, both hogs and chickens will eat other dead animals, and no one seems to have a problem with them.
‘Cept we never called ‘em Field Larks! 😉🤣
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