Roadkill stew is yummy!

 

When I see them , I hit the gas!!

 

I hate squirrels,,,,,,,,
squirrels carry nuts,,,
ya find nuts in brownies..
and I HATE that!!!!

 

I dont avoid squirrels, they are all over the mountain. Not worth dropping the bike over.

 

Be careful, the squirrels are in training.

 

glad to hear you and the bike are OK

Next time just cream the squirrel

 

Anybody hit an Armadillo yet? Movin' to Texas and plan on using them as speed bumps if they get in the way. They squish real easy right?

 

In England we are being encouraged to eat Grey Squirrels. They are a growing pest and it would be a good way of controlling them. One member of parliment recently proposed feeding them to school children who eat school meals. Quite a few butcher sell them in my part of the country and there are a lot of recipes for them. I've never eaten squirrel myself but people who have tell me they're very succulent. I'd like to try squirrel pancakes. You need damsons, which I grow in my garden. Here is the recipe that was shown on a recent TV programme. It looks really good:

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/596133

You cannot eat our native red squirrel because they are protected and they have a foul gland next to the kidney which ruins its taste

Over here it's pheasants that are the problem when riding a bike. People breed them to shoot and they also make good eating. They are everywhere and they are the most stupid birds imaginable. They love to commit suicide by standing in the middle of the road and waiting until you are too close to avoid them before flying straight at you. A friend of mine was riding with a bloke that hit one with his head and it snapped his neck. He was dead before he hit the road.

I was driving home from work one day on a narrow road through some woods. As I drove round a tight bend there was a woman in a 4x4 with a group of kids in the back who had stopped to let a flock of about 10 young pheasants walk across the road.

I was doing about 60 mph and I had nowhere to swerve so I ploughed into the pheasants. I looked into the rearview mirror to see a cloud of blood and feathers and a car full of screaming kids. They were probably traumatised for life. It took me hours to clean the guts out of the car and I had to buy a new grill which was shattered. It took weeks to get rid of the smell.

We used to eat a lot of them when I was a kid. Nowadays I only eat it about three times a year. My father was a fish merchant but he used to sell pheasants and rabbits out of the back of a van. I used to sit on the step of his van ringing a bell and people used to come out of their houses and buy stuff. Me and my brother used to earn a little money by plucking pheasants and skinning rabbits in the evenings. We used to spend it at the saturday morning cinema which was the highlight of our existance. That was in the mid 60s. Life was so much easier then.

Pheasants have a very strong gamey taste and have to be hung for a couple of weeks before you can eat them otherwise they are too tough. Some people hang them by the head until the body drops off but by then they are too strong for me.

It's all good protein and better than a greasy burger.

 

Squirrel dead in the oncoming lane was being eaten by a buzzard hawk the other day.The SUV in that lane decided to run over me instead of the hawk. Thank goodness I was already in a defensive riding position in case the hawk came towards me as he took off. The SUV waas still in my lane as he passed me and I was off the rode stopped.

If I had the guys address I would send him a note letting him know the hawk and I are doing fine due to his great driving skills.

 

oh yeah the reason for the above post ..... if you run over the squirrel make sure you cook it or at least move it to the side of the road so other scavengers will not be your next problem.