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I have a recipe for crow from a book published by Field and Stream magazine in the early 1960s. The breasts end up in a casserole pan in the oven, cooking in sour kraut. No, I have never tried it, and can’t think of a single good reason to attempt that, now. The same book suggests that opossums are tolerable if you capture them and get them on a diet of persimmons for a month or so, before the attempt of turning them into table fare.
I’ve never been that hungry.
As a kid, we tried to eat a lessor Canada goose, that I suspect had a strong preference for mollusks, or some other nasty creature that lives in mud. The oven stunk up the kitchen, and, when it was over, the dog wouldn’t eat it.
Best,
Ted there is an old in the south about eating "a mess of possum and irish potatoes"...
"it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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I feel like i'd willingly eat stray cats before opossums. I feel the same about canadian geese, really nasty to cook even harder to eat
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I have a recipe for Crow also.
Bring to a boil in a pot with root vegetables and a river stone.
When the stone is fork tender it’s time to eat.
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Possum gravy can't be beat
And oh I like those chicken feet.
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I feel like i'd willingly eat stray cats before opossums. I feel the same about canadian geese, really nasty to cook even harder to eat Cats are suposed to be very good. Canada geese can be too. This one was easy to cook and great to eat. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/i8Nyur1.jpg)
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/ ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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I’m not inclined to try Puffin hunting…..or eating! Fifty years ago I worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the western Aleutians and one of my colleagues was studying puffin ecology. He shot quite a few to analyze stomach contents and we ate the breasts. Very rich, similar to liver, and quite tasty.
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I could not in a million years have predicted where this thread would end up!
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I’ve had really good goose, like that featured by BrentD. I’ve also really bad goose that had the texture and taste of shoe leather. Grain fed birds are the best, but I would not attempt to eat a suburban golf course resident. On our annual Boy Scout wild game hike, a fellow scout master would cook goose burgers. Some beef tallow and spices added to ground goose breast. Fantastic
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