When it comes to new taste sensations. I was not aware that the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife Department have issued free publications complete with recipes for enjoying nature’s bounty. Merely contact them and soon you too will have recipes at your fingertips featuring squirrel chowder, stew, and even…yum, barbecue. Squirrel, it’s not just fried for breakfast anymore!
If you eat one of those little bushy tailed creatures, you’d better be a lot hungrier than the average New Jersey Native, and wily. Just ask any bird lover how very clever and inventive squirrels are. They may not describe it as “clever”, but you’ll get the idea. Absolutely nothing stands between them and the coveted bird food you’ve lovingly set out in order to watch birds. Along comes a family of squirrels doing a high wire act, complete with unicycle, miniature parasol , grappling hooks and gymnastics to be envied at the Olympics just to get to your bird food.
I would have remained blissfully unaware of their potential as a snack had an earlier advisory from the Environmental Protection Agency not been issued . The EPA warned those who favor squirrels not to eat more than two per week.
It seems that the samples they picked up near a toxic water waste dump in the Ringwood area had tested much higher than your minimum daily requirement for lead.
Fear no more, and eat ‘em if ya got ‘em! The villain in this story turns out to be a blender used to process the tissues into usable samples, which was defective and was definitively identified as the source of lead contamination, stated the EPA on Monday. You may be relieved to know that the EPA is once again describing squirrel as “good table fare.”
I must wonder if they truly are that tasty, or we have people trying to feed their families with what I’m told are very bony little dudes with little flesh. I knew it didn’t bode well when Newt and his cronies advocated for “Workfare, four years and you’re off “– though I had not envisioned hunting squirrels or competing for squirrel burger flipping jobs with your grandma. AFP 10/31/07