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coachk64
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Cube it up and grill it, mash it up and mix with some Miracle Whip and a little horseradish, fold in a boiled egg, that'll make you a fine sandwich spread.
Give Flattop44 a can of that with a couple of biscuits and a RC Cola and a Moon Pie and he will be one happy man!
Wow. My grandpa had a guy from Missouri that lived across the street from him. This was when I was about 14 YO or so. This guy, grandpa called him 'Charley' had kind of unique tastes for Sioux Falls, SD in the mid '60s. We once found a very large snapping turtle on the way to grandpa's house. This was near the river, and the turtle had been shot in the shell by some idiot. We went on and told grandpa and he jumped in his pickup and we went to get the turtle. This thing was huge, when we thought we could give him a branch to chew on whilst we hoisted him up into the pickup, he bit right through it. I don't remember how, but dad and grandpa got it in the truck and we took it to Charley. Then we heard about grandpa and grandma going to Charley's for turtle. He also was big on squirrels, and grandpa, my brother and I spent significant time together shooting squirrels for Charley. Grandpa would tell stories about Charley eating squirrel brains. I don't think grandma was very impressed.
Yep I have had fried snapping turtle and turtle soup that my grandmother fixed. It was a really BIG deal to be able to get a big enough snapper to eat.
My Dad loved to squirrel hunt, and I would go with him a lot. My mother hated frying them she said they looked to much like rats.
My Dad loved to squirrel hunt, and I would go with him a lot. My mother hated frying them she said they looked to much like rats.
One of Dad's Army buddies lived in northeast Arkansas just below the Missouri bootheel. That man loved squirrel but didn't have a place to hunt nor was he physically able to be out much by the time I knew him. One year in early summer, Dad told me this friend was coming to visit and I was tasked with 'collecting' squirrels for the guy to take home. He nearly cried when he saw the pile of cleaned and frozen squirrels. He died a couple years later but I was proud to have made at least some short period of his final time something special. 
I bet anything that Squirrel Spam would be better than the regular stuff....
My Dad loved to squirrel hunt, and I would go with him a lot. My mother hated frying them she said they looked to much like rats.
Squirrels are just rats in formal attire.
akbluz
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Somebody (Wendy maybe?) said squirrels were "Chicken of the Tree".
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Yeah, but does it have the squirrel brains in there? That's the best part.
Limb bacon, yum!
Limb bacon, yum!
Grew up hunting squirrels and rabbits, fine eating. I am going to have to get some of that canned squirrel and gravy, yum, yum. Uh, I am from Alabama. 
FT44
FT44
That is what I have always heard and called it! Tasty, fried squirrel and gravy with mashed potatoes and cornbread has been more than one Thanksgiving supper.
I truly enjoy some breaded & fried tender young squirrel, BUT...If an eatin' size, fresh (clean) water snapper should present itself...I'll take that any day! 
I bet it would be good with a gravy over top fresh biscuits or toast.
My favorite way to eat tree rats is quartered and made like chicken wings.
As for snappers....cut up and fry in cast iron just like you would chicken or deep fry in a beer batter.......YUM!
My favorite way to eat tree rats is quartered and made like chicken wings.
As for snappers....cut up and fry in cast iron just like you would chicken or deep fry in a beer batter.......YUM!
I wish this was a real Hormel offering.....and I wish they also would make rattlesnake spam.....let them debone the things! 
Anything breaded right and then fried, especially in bacon grease, is good. The best I ever ate was rattlesnake.
Rattlesnake is fantastic deep fried in a beer batter. I hated boning them. A buddy was great at it. He could have that spine and pulled out in one piece lickity split. One thing about rattlesnake though.....I would never eat snake I didn't see killed/skinned/deboned with my own eyes. Worst stomach cramps I ever had in my life were after eating rattlesnake somebody from mags brought in for the grill at the range. I have a feeling it was killed by a rock. Myself, Chief, and two other instructors were down for the count shortly after that lunch. 
"Tree rats" around here.
