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The bald eagles seem to like them.

I guess a woodchuck is the same thing as a groundhog?

I saw a news video on it years ago... how it was Appalachia food back in rough times and still eaten today. In that video they did like 3 types / levels of cooking it if I recall correctly. Ended up as stew after a lengthy process. You might be able to find the video if you search for it.

Never ate it myself. My grandpa ate everything back in the day. He told me young ones weren’t bad but old fat ones were just about too much. He was not squeamish about food but clearly had no desire to eat it again. It made me not bother to try one. Groundhog fit into the category of food that made him say, “it beats a snowball.”

Hearing how tough they had it when he was coming up always gave me an appreciation for how fortunate I am.

I wonder how much woodchuck a woodchuck eater would chuck up.

yea i still eat them , throw them in the crock pot ..grew up in West Virginia in the late 60's- early 80's eating them granpa and dad would shoot them and granma would roll in flour fry it . when i was old enough to shoot them mom would par boil them ,then bake them with ketchup and ramps on top.... Ramps another Appalachian delicacy yum yum .

I remember trying it years ago at a game dinner and I think it was prepared primarily like a stew. It was okay.

I was wondering about eating them yesterday and spotted a rock chuck on my way home. Wondered what that would be like!

Growing up on a farm where we raised soybeans, woodchucks were vermin. We killed them anyway we could. Dad didn't let me have a 22 so shotgun, shovel, hoe whatever was handy. And we never even thought about eating one even though we ate rabbits and pheasants. Deer if Dad got one.

Years later I married a southern gal. Her family ate those groundhogs. Mother in law wanted to fry up some young ones that I shot at home. I didn't really want to but I skinned them and she pan fried them. The first couple of bites I had to choke down, but after I tasted them, they were good. Not much different than a rabbit. They always baked the old ones, and as someone said, glands under the front legs had to be removed.

I would but never got around to trying one, but know some that have eaten them many times. All the folks I've ever heard talk about them agree that the old ones aren't worth fooling with, hard times only. But would readily prepare & eat young ones when given the opportunity.

He would chuck up as much woodchuck as a woodchuck eater could chuck up, if a woodchuck eater could chuck up woodchuck.