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[varmint]

i am about one generation removed from kentucky hill folk. and yes, i have been coon hunting. but going back through living memory i don't think any us ever ate one.


LA Health Officials Take Action After Local Supermarket Sells Raccoons As Food

TEMPLE CITY (CBSLA.com) — The Health Department has taken action after a local supermarket’s frozen foods section featured an unusual item.
Inspectors from the LA County Health Department visited the Metro Supermarket in Temple City on Tuesday, after being informed that the market was selling raccoons as food.
Employees at the market declined to appear on camera, but did show entire raccoons, frozen, bagged, and selling for $9.99 per pound. The employees say raccoon is considered a delicacy in China.
Customer Christina Dow was at the market, and upon seeing the frozen raccoons, filmed the scene on her cell phone. She shared the video on social media.
“The way it’s packaged in the store, it’s so real, and it’s so fresh, and you don’t see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,” Dow said.
Dow also went on to contact the LA County Health Department, who says that selling raccoons as food may indeed be perfectly legal, depending on the origins of the meat.
The market has ceased selling raccoons, since the department’s visit, until it and be reviewed and officially approved.
CBS2 contacted a number of local agencies, including the LA County District Attorney’s office. However, none of them were immediately able to say whether selling raccoons as food was legal or not.
Store employees say they’ve been selling raccoons for years, and never experienced any issues until now.


LA Health Officials Take Action After Local Supermarket Sells Raccoons As Food « CBS Los Angeles

[bivenator]

Coon and possum was never served on my Arkansas deep woods relatives table. (that I know of)

Some guys got arrested here in Houston a while back that were selling raccoon meat out of an ice chest at a car wash. I think the cops found some drugs and weapons as well. Maybe coon meat is a hot commodity on the black market.

[GH85Carrera]

I lived in Alabama and my first job was at a place with an older black man. He invited me to share in his favorite meal, possum. I tasted it and it does NOT taste like chicken. Very greasy. He refused to eat coon as they tasted real bad he said. He would eat just about anything, except coon.

He was a interesting man. I learned many things from him.

[aigel]

This doesn't have to be a big deal if these are from a proper source. You can buy all sorts of wild game legally which is either market hunted in a state where it is legal or comes form game ranches. I have never had coon but would not hesitate to try if I ever get a young one out in the boonies where they don't roam through household trash ...

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[Craig T]

Hey, chicken, rabbit, pig, cow, lamb, raccoon...Whats the different? We are opportunistic carnivores after all.

My father grew up back-country Kentucky before moving to Los Angeles at 10. They ate squirrel, opossum, and raccoon. He said squirrel was good, and opossum is the worst, but raccoon was a close second.

The Chinese eat carp, chicken feet, and even eat sea cucumbers. That's like chewing on an old race tire.

[Nostril Cheese]

Id consider eating game outside of LA County.

Opossums are mean bastards..

[sammyg2]

Never tasted it but iffn I got hungry enough you bet I would.

I ate a sidewinder once just on a single dare, no double dog or anything.

[creaturecat]

Polecat?
How does that one taste? Chicken-like?

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Never tasted it but iffn I got hungry enough you bet I would.

I ate a sidewinder once just on a single dare, no double dog or anything.

My dad caught a rattlesnake up at Indian Dunes, skinned it and cooked it. I dont remember what it tasted like.

[Craig T]

Originally Posted by Nostril Cheese

My dad caught a rattlesnake up at Indian Dunes, skinned it and cooked it. I dont remember what it tasted like.

Chicken! I've eaten rattlesnake many times. I fried one up I caught in my avocado orchard with some scrambled eggs just last spring. It's a little gamier/oilier than chicken, but not much.

[MBAtarga]

Racoon I've had tasted like dark turkey meat - very moist and just a little greasy.

[BK911]

Dude I work with keeps a flat shovel in his trunk.
Any road kill he sees on his way home that wasn't there in the morning becomes TN chili.

[2porscheguy]

Originally Posted by BK911

Dude I work with keeps a flat shovel in his trunk.
Any road kill he sees on his way home that wasn't there in the morning becomes TN chili.

Schitt!...can't stop laughing!

I remember back when I was a teen hunting grey partridge with my dad and older brother. We would be driving our old Dodge wagon on some backcountry roads in northern Quebec. It was raining and we were all too cold to walk with our .410 shotguns. AND so....we would run them down with the old Dodge...roadkill huntin' at it's best! It was surprisingly effective!

Don't tell the SPCA...or my wife!

[gshase]

Years ago a friend served up some racoon and it tasted like dark turkey meat.

[Jolly Amaranto]

[M.D. Holloway]

Anything that eats anything will taste suspect...

[aigel]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

Anything that eats anything will taste suspect...

The opposite is the case. I find omnivores much better tasting than herbivores. Strong examples are wild pigs and black bear as well as CRAB and lobster. I mean, CRAB has to be one of the best tasting animals on the planet and they are the garbage disposal of the sea! You should see what I put in my crab traps!

Now, like stated above, you don't want to eat a coon or bear that goes through garbage - only truly wild animals will be the tasty stuff.

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[vonsmog]

From what I have heard, is you catch the raccoon live, cage and feed it corn for two-three weeks. Then eat it, takes away the game taste.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Back in the 70's, I went to a wild game supper at a VFW hall in Wallis, Texas. About anything you have ever seen as road kill was prepared there. I sampled coon, possum, skunk, armadillo, feral hog, squirrel, rattle snake, as well as more traditional fare like goose and deer. The armadillo was the best tasting of the smaller critters.