Who else remembers that flavour's brief period of popularity in the early 80s?I do..tasted a bit like...
This is a story told by my father who is a long term member if the Hampsire Wildlife Trust.
Picture yourself at a winter evening meeting at a village hall in the New Forest, attending an illustrated lecture on the life, times and problems faced by Erinaceus europaeus. At the end of the talk the meeting is opened to the floor.....
The conversation moves onto cooking and eating Mrs Tiggywinkle. The inevitable question is raised 'what does hegehog taste like then?
The presenter is nonplussed and asks for if anyone has ever eaten a hedgehog....
...after a pause an old boy says....... 'oi.. as.. eaten.... 'egehog'...
'well what does it taste like then please?'
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.......'well... thinkin 'bout it.......actu'lly..e.. tastes much like squirrel! .....
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I've trapped and eaten squirrel. If it wasn't for the smallness of the bones, you'd be hard put to distinguish it from rabbit, although it's possibly slightly oilier.
I used to give the skin (with an intact head) to the ferrets as food/entertainment. They would somehow manage to remove all the head-contents (skull and flesh) leaving a skin with a little hoodie attached. A very sick individual might then dress the smallest ferret in this squirrel costume... :-[ :demon: