Comments on: Why Google should make room for raccoon recipes

Google's Marisa Mayer declares at Crunchies that more people are now googling for recipes than restaurants. Here's why Google shouldn't forget raccoons' fine taste.

[bobledrew]

Now, when I saw "raccoon recipes," I thought you were talking about recipes that raccoons could prepare. For example, this raccoon could certainly use some help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT0URcM_fc4

[Remo_Williams]

Augment this with pigeon and goose recipes, and we're done. Why we aren't knocking off the geese and providing food for the homeless, I just can't understand.

-R

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Remo,

Pigeons and geese? Yes, there are million of those around, aren't there? And pigeons really are flying raccoons.

Would you eat rat?

Chris

[RainCaster]

Chris- you forgot about the Nutria recipes. These tasty little creatures can feed Grandma for two days if refrigerated. BTW, racoons can be very tasty when smoked too. Mesquite chips in your smoker can add a nice tang, especially with a garlic/pepper based brine solution.

I'm gettin' hungry just thankin bout it.

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Ah, yes, RainCaster. Coypu and fries with a little mustard, perhaps?

You sound like someone with considerable rodent-roasting experience. I am envious.

Chris

[t8]

In Australia we eat kangaroos. Just about no fat and there is an abundance of supply. In addition, kangaroos are better for the environment than cattle and sheep so they are better for farming.

[ChrisMatyszczyk]

Hmm, t8,

How are 'roos better for the environment? Do they pass less wind?

Don't you like just a little fat on the meat you eat?

I mean, isn't the best part of a chicken the fatty skin?

Chris

[alegr]

Chris,

Kangaroos reportedly don't fart methane (which is a greenhouse gas, even worse than CO2).

[t8]

Kangaroos don't loosen the top soil like cattle and consequently there are less dust storms which blow valuable top soil into the ocean. You can see a remarkable difference to the environment if you have cattle on one side of the fence and native fauna on the other,

[Remo_Williams]

I *know* there are goose/squab recipes, I'm suggesting a compendium of recipes that cull the herd, so to speak, of these animals which have lost their natural predators. I'd also try to get the deer processed for food as well. We have enough unemployed people to open up render-for-food shops. Hot sauce + venison = delicious.

I probably would not eat rat, since I've been to Peru and eaten cuy, and didn't like it. But I can say I tried it, so I'm one-up on most.

-R

[Rhodon]

I worked in the Andes as a field geologist and loved cuy (a.k.a guinea pig to most) -- like the most delicate rabbit. Delicately roasted or lightly stewed (not cooked to death)... mmmmm! My driver/aide and I even had a small business of buying cuy locally (raised on farms in our area) at 13,000 ft and driving them to the nearest city market at sea-level... sold them off in the open market parking lotl in 10 minutes. Good investment for my driver and for me. (We also "ran" cabbages, onions, adn squash back uphill, too...)

[Rhodon]

Chris & all,
I'm seriously staring at 4 too-fat ***** scarfing my goldfish and anything else. As a not-quite-developed Good Ol' Boy hunter type, I'm trolling for recipes and that famous diagram of dissection.BTW, I'm a confirmed Joy user since the dark ages (<1970), even with the other cookbooks.
Keep'em comin!
I like restaurants but I like other great food, too, that you can't get there, like squirrel and rabbit. We need all the info!