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'In a few years' time, it's going to become like rabbit,' said Andrew Thornton, who introduced squirrel meat into his branch of the Budgens supermarket in north London this year.
'Squirrel is a very sustainable form of meat,' he told AFP on Thursday, explaining that while it takes 15 tons of grain to produce one ton of beef, 'squirrels feed from nature -- there are too many of them around.'
Squirrel meat was once a common feature of the British diet and in recent years has returned, being sold by speciality game dealers and restaurants and endorsed by celebrity chefs, who have cooked up recipes for squirrel ragout and squirrel offal skewers."
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I miss Larry and the Darryls. (It's about the only thing that made that show worth watching.)
Jeff
Hey, I liked Miss Stephanie, too.
Some of us old-timers grew up eating squirrel meat. Nothing sportier to hunt, nothing tastier to eat.
There's nothing better than fried squirrel(or rabbit for that matter), a big bowl of gravy made from the drippings, and a pan of homemade biscuits for breakfast.
That was a delicacy looked forward to when we were growing up.
But them I am almost sixty-one.
I had to have a family of squirrels removed from my attic by a trapper several years ago. He said he'd eat squirrel if he had to, but whenever he caught him a nutria, he knew what he'd be having for dinner that night!
A rat with a busy tail. NTTAWWT.
I never saw more than a couple of episodes of "Sex and the City", but in one of them Carrie described a squirrel as "just a rat with a cuter outfit". I suspect she was right.
Gordon Ramsay had a piece on his British TV series "The F Word" a couple of years back. Apparently the North American Grey Squirrel is squeezing out the domestic Red Squirrel, the type that everyone knows from "Tales of Beatrix Potter." The Grey Squirrel is increasingly being seen as an unwelcome invader. Ramsay (or rather the person doing the piece on his show) thought it was quite tasty, as did the people on the street that he had sampling it.
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