Can’t eat gold.
Before the 2000 date change happened, and everyone thought the sky was gonna fall, my father bought myself and my brother 10,000 rounds of .22 LR. That’s something you can trade. Or, if you have a squirrel cook book you can eat.
Actually a good idea on my fathers part. But of course the sky did not fall. I knew it would not.
Lot better than gold though.
How long did it last?
Make absolutely certain you know how to prepare the squirrels properly. My grandfather shot squirrels as vermin, and so as not to let them go to waste, gave some to my mom for cat food. Her cooking those squirrels raised the most God-awful stench I’ve ever smelled. It was gag-inducing from a block away.
I think that there’s some sort of gland you need to remove. I don’t know how to do it right. But I do know that you do NOT want to do it wrong.
The old edition of Joy of Cooking had a lovely illustration of skinning the squirrel and a description of how to de-gland it.
That’s been my response to any doomsday hypotheticals whenever they come up. If I have to invest in metals ahead of the apocalypse, I’d rather invest in lead than gold.
So…you can poop gold
It’s gold at both ends, Jerry! Gold, I tell ya!
I knew someone with one of those Joy of Cooking books that was old enough to have all kinds of descriptions on how to cook game.
I have a paperback copy printed in 1974 that my mom gave me. It’s got diagrams in it on how to skin and prepare rabbits and squirrels.
My copy is from 1981. it still has the wild game section.
Anyone up for some porcupine or muskrat? Maybe a nice stuffed boar’s head?
When my dad was a kid, he would shoot squirrels and my grandmother would prepare them. The problem with squirrel is that it’s lot of work for not much meat.
The way I understand it, some of the gold ends up in you bloodstream. That is a thing you probably do not want. If you eat too much gold-decorated food, well, just fail to do that. It is a high-density metal, which means that the gold that gets into your blood will land in the lower bend of your kidney ducts and camp out. Granted, you would have to eat a whole lot of that stuff for it to build up and be a problem, so, luckily, those dishes are expensive.
The Boar’s Head Carol.
That was the subject of a House, MD episode [2m 49s]:
I remember that episode
Just don’t rely on only squirrel meat. A diet solely consisting of lean game can give you fatal diarrhea. Hopefully you’re near a fishing hole.
Yeah, just saying that bullets are better than bullion in an end of the world scenario. Could also, to a degree, defend yourself and use them to barter.
Now I’m picturing myself, wandering through a post-apocolyptic wasteland, a few radioactive zombies shuffling by…
And me, I’m strolling happily along, munching on a big ol’ Cadbury bar…