Syracuse.com - I'm open to eating a wide variety of wild game

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I'd like to hear from readers who dine on possum, woodchuck, raccoon, muskrat, beaver, turtle, bullfrog and crow. Tell me about your experiences and send me your best recipes.

I used to be a picky eater.

Up until eighth grade, I used to irritate my mother by refusing to eat spaghetti with spaghetti sauce on it, preferring butter and salt instead. In fact, she used to stick a fork in my meatballs and wash the sauce off in the sink before putting them on my plate.

College, hard times and maturity changed all that. These days, I’ll try most anything — once.

Last week’s story that I wrote about squirrel hunting generated a variety of comments online, in the mail and from persons I ran into this past week. Many I talked to looked down their noses at eating squirrel, which I have sampled. Frankly, it’s not bad.

From what readers told me, there’s a wide variety of wild game recipes out there that are routinely being served on the tables of Central New York residents. In fact, I’ve heard from readers who say they never go to the grocery store for meat, eating only what they shoot in the woods or fields, or catch fishing.

Most hunters I’ve talked to eat the deer, rabbit, pheasant, duck or goose that they shoot. A smaller number, though, consume other, less popular game.

I’d like to hear from readers who dine on possum, woodchuck, raccoon, muskrat, beaver, turtle, bullfrog and crow. Tell me about your experiences and send me your best recipes.

I also wouldn’t mind sampling any of these dishes — once. My mother would be proud.

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