I’ve heard of eating squirrel. In fact, in high school there was a kit who frequently brought deep fried squirrel for lunch.
Then again, his given name was “Boeing,” he wore the same jean jacket in perpetuity, and he was an outcast even among us outcasts, so make of that what you will.
This all reminds me of that excellent series, Steve, Don’t Eat It!, wherein several of those items featured in Kookyfood (among others) are consumed and described for the benefit of all mankind.
Are fish balls anything like gefilte fish?
I like gefilte fish.
I love fishballs in seafood laksas drool
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squirrel stew 
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Hey, I’ve had rattlesnake before . . . and it was pretty good! Caught it, decapitated ‘n’ skinned it, coiled it on a stick, and roasted it over a campfire. A little salty, but otherwise good eatin’!
That same trip, I was also offered and tried two different meats I can only speculate on. For matters of decorum (especially in front of housepets), I will politely defer on openly speculating.
Tripler
You can usually eat anything with six legs or less.
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Tripler
You can usually eat anything with six legs or less.
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And why are you discriminating against calamari??? 
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And why are you discriminating against calamari???
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Crabs and lobsters ain’t so bad either. Hell, I like octopus.
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Offspring’s fav snack is dried squid. Nuthin’ wrong with that but we left him in the car with the heater running and a bag of them. We came out, got in the car and were overwhelmed by the eye watering stench. I thought a tuna had been left in the trunk for a week or so.
The squid and kid have been quarentined to his room.
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My roommates cat hated me. Then I ate dried octopus. He then became my best friend. 
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Fishballs /snerk/. Someone seriously tripped over in the translation department :rolleyes:
Seriously, thats the fish equivalent to meatballs. About the size of large eggs, served with white sauce, curry-powder, potates and grated raw carrots. Looks something like this .
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Am I the only to have seen Good Morning, Vietnam!?
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Squirrel brains. My paternal grandfather loved them. I’d be eating squirrel stew, find a skull, and Pop would snatch it from me and crack it open.
::Bleh::
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Holy shit!! :eek:
You eat squirrels?
[QUOTE=chowder]
Holy shit!! :eek:
You eat squirrels?
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You don’t? :eek:
We ate squirrel a lot growing up on the farm, brains and all.
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You don’t? :eek:
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No we most certainly do not.
Ye gods, the thought of scranning down on Mr Fluffy Tail makes me feel quite ill
Squirrel schmirrel, its just a rodent 
Apart from fishballs, we do also eat someting else which in my eyes is much more gross, and that is smalahove , which simply put is roasted sheeps head, cut in half and served. Yum? :dubious:
Picunurse, fishballs as shown in my link probably does not taste like your gefilte fish, bt we have other ways of making fishballs, by just grounding fish meat and mixing it with potatoe flour, putting a piece of pork fat in the middle, which might have a similar consistency.
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No we most certainly do not.
Ye gods, the thought of scranning down on Mr Fluffy Tail makes me feel quite ill
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IIRC, our grey squirrels which have been imported to your fair isle are presently kicking the shit out of your timid little red squirrels (WTF is up with that, anyway? You Brits are damned tough blokes, so I’d think that your squirrels would be too.). Perhaps you guys could even the odds by eating the greys?
No joke, squirrels are tasty buggers. I’ve only eaten them once, but I can assure you that they don’t taste like shoe leather or anything. (Oh wait, you’re British, you’d probably like it if they tasted like shoe leather. ;))
I don’t remember all the details, but there was a flap in Kentucky a few years back concerning eating squirrel brains. Supposedly they might carry a variant of the mad cow disease.
Other than that, squirrels are good eating with the caveat that the squirrels come from the wild and are not the garbage chewing city slicker type.
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I don’t remember all the details, but there was a flap in Kentucky a few years back concerning eating squirrel brains. Supposedly they might carry a variant of the mad cow disease.
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Ah yes, “mad squirrel disease.”
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Holy shit!! :eek:
You eat squirrels?
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Not anymore. There’s a great 12-step program for quiting.
I grew up in rural Louisiana, outside of Baton Rouge. (Its not so rural anymore.) Keep in mind, this is a part of the country that takes a fierce pride in its unusual food. Common things I ate: Boiled peanuts, crawfish, cornbread - once the grubs were removed from the corn meal ::bleh::, guinea fowl, wild turkey (the animal, not the beverage), head cheese (more brains - usually pig), and potted meat. We were frying turkeys looong before everyone else. I was eight when we did it for the first time - I’m 30 now. (Completely useless fact: the turkey frying kits sold around the country now are dead common in Louisiana. They can be used for frying, and for boiling water to cook crawfish or to remove feathers/pig stubble.)
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Ah yes, “mad squirrel disease.”
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My grandfather was a cantankerous old coot. Maybe this explains it.
A few years ago, there was a big craze for eating deep fried tarantula spiders! God knows why anybody wants to eat a spider! but anyway-do large scorpions taste like lobster? And, most insects are rather small-is eating them worth the bother?