‘Cutting Edge Pest Control’ includes Mom being a deadly shot with an MIB -issued pistol.
The week the burglar broke in, _everyone_ got tired of chilli..
Hey, never underestimate the abilities of a squirrel. Who esle do you know that can run full speed up & down a tree with its nuts in its mouth?
0.o
Seriously though, check out how awesome squrrils are with a pair of BBC documentaries, named Daylight Robbery & Daylight Robbery 2. You’d be surprised what they’re capable of.
In my youth we used to bring home three to five squirrels and Grandma would fry them like chicken, cutting them up and breading them and then frying them in lard. Gravy and Mashed potatoes, or sometimes country fries. Better than rabbit or quail.
“Be sure to remove the two small glands found in the small of the back and under each foreleg, between the ribs and the shoulders.
Stuff and roast squirrels as for Pigeons, page 475, barding them, or use them in Brunswick Stew, page 470, or prepare as for Braised Chicken, page 467. Season the gravy with:
Walnut catsup
and serve with:
Polenta, page 177”
From the “How Poor Are You” cookbook, which includes all sorts of recipes for things like beaver tails, possum, bear (nasty meat!), coon, and many others.
HEY! Bear can be tasty or nasty depending on what its been eating. Bears being omnivores well they will eat trash. Trash bears are nasty Bears that have been eating a lot of fish tend to be oily and smelly and gamy tasting. Bears that have been fed up on berrys and nuts and such. are tasty.
Just remember not to eat the liver or other fatty, filtering organs. Top level predators tend to carry a lot of fat soluble vitamins and for large enough animals the accumulation can be toxic to humans.
Could be a regional thing. In some areas and subcultures, there’s still a distinction. “Dinner” can refer to the main meal of the day, even if it’s at noon, with “supper” bring a lighter meal in the evening. Or, the term “dinner” can be reserved for a formal meal, while “supper” is a simpler, casual affair. In this case the later distinction might be the one in play.
In either case, Pickle probably picked it up from Katherine, and I don’t think we know where in the country she was raised. The dialect map shows a region of dialect distinction in the upper Midwest, so she (or Paul?) has roots in that area?
Squirrel is good eating, though City Squirrel have issues notably being crackheads and Junkies… (this may be only a local thing but the squirrels in Baltimore regularly test positive for cocaine and crack and heroin.)
where I live you have to define that better. Nutria also has a fuzzy tail. So you have to define as Tree Rat or River Rat. (Muskrat has a hairless tail so cannot be defined as having a fuzzy tail)
I’ve noticed that when someone says something is ‘state of the art’ they almost never say what the art is…
Also I’ve received a message from the Chicken Liberation Front: “Eat More Squirrel.”
Squirrel soup.
As I understand it, squirrel is best for stewing.
‘Cutting Edge Pest Control’ includes Mom being a deadly shot with an MIB -issued pistol.
The week the burglar broke in, _everyone_ got tired of chilli..
Katherine does >not< need the pistol. The squirrel is proving that the dumbest of a species is not equipped to survive a dangerous situation.
Hey, never underestimate the abilities of a squirrel. Who esle do you know that can run full speed up & down a tree with its nuts in its mouth?
0.o
Seriously though, check out how awesome squrrils are with a pair of BBC documentaries, named Daylight Robbery & Daylight Robbery 2. You’d be surprised what they’re capable of.
Love those shows!
Tree rat chili.
Oh man, I hope it’s no one Scarlett knew!
It’s good to know that some things never change.
Kath never struck me as being the Brunswick stew type.
Kath: 2
Squirrels: 0
Hey! it was raised on Organic Vegetables, is completely Gluten Free, and, as near as I know Non-G.M.O.
Now, as to being humanely killed …
Flattening it’s skull still counts as “humane” if it’s done quickly, right?
It does with humans, at least…
@Sean Murphy
🙄
Only if said human wasn’t expecting to have his head flattened 😵💫
Although I would think there was a possibility of a pet squirrel. At least she does not waste a kill.
Pet Squirrel were actually very common in the early 20th century. into the 1960s.
Apparently that’s what this kid had in mind before paying a visit to his grandmother’s “First Self Righteous Church” 😏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU 🤣
You could have given the squirrel a name, would have only had the one entry, but still. Maybe Stuart?
El? And them make it a squire?
/flrrd/
Pass the burgoo.
Relevant
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/
Yeah! I dimly remembered that. So Aussie was right – Squirrels 0, Kath 2
I would’ve thought it Kath: 3. Or did the first time “only counts as one!” (Sorry, couldn’t resist the LOTR reference….)
It’s even better to begin back a few strips to add to the relevancy:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/bettersociallifethanme/
Katherine wasn’t as … shapely then as she became after adopting Atsali & Castela 🙄
Really the best thing to do with squirrel is to make burgers.
One squirrel does not make enough burgers for two.
Stew is really the only viable option.
In my youth we used to bring home three to five squirrels and Grandma would fry them like chicken, cutting them up and breading them and then frying them in lard. Gravy and Mashed potatoes, or sometimes country fries. Better than rabbit or quail.
Squirrel does NOT taste like chicken. That’s what the big boys tell me.
they are right. nothing tastes like chicken.. it’s the fact that chicken tastes like everything else….
“Be sure to remove the two small glands found in the small of the back and under each foreleg, between the ribs and the shoulders.
Stuff and roast squirrels as for Pigeons, page 475, barding them, or use them in Brunswick Stew, page 470, or prepare as for Braised Chicken, page 467. Season the gravy with:
Walnut catsup
and serve with:
Polenta, page 177”
From the “How Poor Are You” cookbook, which includes all sorts of recipes for things like beaver tails, possum, bear (nasty meat!), coon, and many others.
HEY! Bear can be tasty or nasty depending on what its been eating. Bears being omnivores well they will eat trash. Trash bears are nasty Bears that have been eating a lot of fish tend to be oily and smelly and gamy tasting. Bears that have been fed up on berrys and nuts and such. are tasty.
Just remember not to eat the liver or other fatty, filtering organs. Top level predators tend to carry a lot of fat soluble vitamins and for large enough animals the accumulation can be toxic to humans.
Not only that- Bear meat can kill you. Be sure to cook it ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
No Bear tartar, not even Rare Bear…
Hmm… I don’t have that one. I do have a collection of ‘varmint’-type cookbooks/recipes. Squirrel is surprisingly easy to prepare.
Tastes like chicken.
In case you were wondering about that reference:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/
(link is in name above)
Fricassee that suckah!
Roof rabbit. But that dish usually makes meow before.
Tree rat.
Well, the squirrel ate her plants, and now her plant is eating the squirrel.
Good one!
Excellent! Bravo!
She’s even got the same narrow-eyed look of annoyance she had last time this happened…
As previously seen on Wapsi:
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/tasteslikechicken/
… why do I get the feeling that Kath is plotting squirrel genocide?
Brunswick stew. That’s what’s for dinner.
What’s Brunswick stew?
Hush and eat your squ…dinner.
https://www.grit.com/food/recipes/squirrel-brunswick-stew-recipe-zerz1502zcwil
Why is it surprisng me that you, of all people, would wind up here too…
😉
Calling it “supper” rather than “dinner” is interesting.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/Map%20supper1.jpg
Could be a regional thing. In some areas and subcultures, there’s still a distinction. “Dinner” can refer to the main meal of the day, even if it’s at noon, with “supper” bring a lighter meal in the evening. Or, the term “dinner” can be reserved for a formal meal, while “supper” is a simpler, casual affair. In this case the later distinction might be the one in play.
In either case, Pickle probably picked it up from Katherine, and I don’t think we know where in the country she was raised. The dialect map shows a region of dialect distinction in the upper Midwest, so she (or Paul?) has roots in that area?
potatoes, taters, spuds or tubers from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum. all the same.. just put it on the table so I can eat.
P.S> Pickle has “roots” when ever and where ever she wants to. she really good at roots.
It’s a regional thing. Friends of mine from Alberta always call it “supper”.
Great Lakes region gets both, kinda.
Supper or dinner for the evening meal, dinner being a bit more formal.
Noonish meal is usually called lunch, but might be called “dinner” if a formal event.
And then there’s my friend who refers to any meal mid-afternoon as “lupper” (in the style of brunch).
Crunchy flufftails. /licks chops/
Squirrel is good eating, though City Squirrel have issues notably being crackheads and Junkies… (this may be only a local thing but the squirrels in Baltimore regularly test positive for cocaine and crack and heroin.)
A garden is just a salad bar to these creatures.
“Want some varmint?”
Squirrell, it’s what’s for dinner…
Bushy-Tailed Rat Stew
where I live you have to define that better. Nutria also has a fuzzy tail. So you have to define as Tree Rat or River Rat. (Muskrat has a hairless tail so cannot be defined as having a fuzzy tail)
Squirrel–it’s what’s for supper. ©The Squirrel Industry Council
What’s for supper? Tacos Sciuridae with Rodentia sauce
Skwerl chitatap! Hinna hinna!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAszCSoO1s
I wonder what that squirrel, in th third panel, is eating 🤔
His last meal apparently…
I’ve noticed that when someone says something is ‘state of the art’ they almost never say what the art is…
Also I’ve received a message from the Chicken Liberation Front: “Eat More Squirrel.”