# Groundhog Day (mild)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-mild/287989>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 2, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-mild/287989 "2005-02-02T15:43:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-mild/287989/21 "2005-02-03T11:23:20Z")

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I’m just a few miles away from Gobbler’s Knob.

Sounds like something else is really going on there with a name like that, don’t you think?

The guys in the hats are just local bigwigs.

Oh, and groundhog tastes like chicken. My uncle Ted used to hunt them on his farm, and he stewed them. No one else would eat it, but I tried some. It was better than squirrel.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-day-mild/287989/22 "2005-02-03T23:36:45Z")

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> [@Wile E](#):
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> A roving gang of groundhogs once bit my sister … and stole her purse.

Was she carving her initials intø them with a tøøthbrush?

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