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 Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: T Bird]
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04/21/25 03:27 PM
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Mo
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My grandma would eat them. I liked fried squirrel and squirrel dumplings. My folks and grandfolks also ate calf brains and scrambled eggs,
I pass on eating any brains.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: T Bird]
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04/21/25 03:53 PM
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I’ll try almost anything once.Animals brains is on the do not try list.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: T Bird]
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04/21/25 06:53 PM
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thrashfish
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A guy that i worked with in Georgia loved BBQ squirrel heads.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: T Bird]
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04/21/25 07:32 PM
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leethefishking
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I just can’t imagine enough meat there to eat. Also I always shot them in the head. What did they do, gutshoot em to save the brains?
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Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: leethefishking]
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04/21/25 09:40 PM
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Jim Ford
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I just can’t imagine enough meat there to eat. Also I always shot them in the head. What did they do, gutshoot em to save the brains? Shotgun. My buddy's mom (that served the brains) used to rag on me for headshooting them with a .22; said I was ruining the best part of the squirrel. So I took a shotgun up that weekend to hunt 'em like they did. Bad mistake..........
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/21/25 10:25 PM
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Grew up in TN. We killed our own hogs every year.
Brains and eggs the next morning was a delicacy.
Big no on squirrels though
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/21/25 10:34 PM
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I never ate them but my brothers best friends family did so he ate them when they cooked them. They would cook them like the OP said then eat the brains and tongues.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/21/25 10:41 PM
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I don't remember a squirrel that wasn't a pain to skin. Trying to keep the entire carcass in one piece. Vicegrips hung by a string. Cedar tree. I've eaten my fair share. It's a white meat. Any recipe for chicken, I tried with squirrel.
It's true, it's excellent with a gravy. It's an all organic, shot free, free range, tree rat.
Never once did I ever think of cracking it's head open. I'm guessing it'd be like cracking a thick egg(?). Having to dig the brain out. You have to be really into, 'exotic meat' to do all that.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/21/25 10:54 PM
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/22/25 12:26 PM
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Squirrels have brains? With all the ways I see them tempting death in my neighborhood, I woulda never thunk it
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Re: Squirrel Brains
[Re: leethefishking]
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04/22/25 12:38 PM
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I just can’t imagine enough meat there to eat. Also I always shot them in the head. What did they do, gutshoot em to save the brains? It’s like the size of a quail egg…
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/22/25 09:51 PM
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My Grandpa loved squirrel brains- fried. I’d hunt squirrel just for him.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/22/25 10:06 PM
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JIM SR.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/22/25 10:16 PM
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RayBob
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I don't remember a squirrel that wasn't a pain to skin. Trying to keep the entire carcass in one piece. Vicegrips hung by a string. Cedar tree. I've eaten my fair share. It's a white meat. Any recipe for chicken, I tried with squirrel.
It's true, it's excellent with a gravy. It's an all organic, shot free, free range, tree rat.
Never once did I ever think of cracking it's head open. I'm guessing it'd be like cracking a thick egg(?). Having to dig the brain out. You have to be really into, 'exotic meat' to do all that. Skinning is no problem. I could gut and skin 10 squirrels in less than 30 minutes. Don't know about vice-grips and such. Never used anything but an Old Timer.
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Re: Squirrel Brains
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04/23/25 12:40 AM
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