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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:23:30 PM EDT
[#1]
Dunno if he's still around, but used to be a raccoon bbq guy in Detroit.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:28:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:30:06 PM EDT
[#3]
I have had it cooked in a pressure cooker
and then bbq'ed for sammiches. Good stuff. 
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:31:28 PM EDT
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It used to be a common Christmas dish in the US up until the 30s or 40s I believe. You can find recipes in old Betty Crocker cookbooks. that being said, I wouldn't eat one.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:33:58 PM EDT
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We grew up poor, my mother cooked many.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:34:25 PM EDT
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Dad said they used to buy them from the old black guy down the street. Common to insist the feet were left on so's you could tell what you were eating.
Slow cooked. Kinda greasy. But good. So said Dad. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:34:56 PM EDT
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I did when I was a kid.
If I remember right it was a dark meat and kind of oily. Or maybe I am confusing that with a goose that tastes like shit at least too me. But yes I have eaten a coon and more than once. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:35:00 PM EDT
[#8]
I'd try it.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:36:30 PM EDT
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Ate some years back. It was smoked and tasted about like other smoked meat.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:36:54 PM EDT
[#10]
Nothing better than some genuine Boone county spoke spun racoon meat. You just have to scoop them up before they cool off.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:37:38 PM EDT
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Parboil the fat off in salted water. OUTSIDE.
Take the parboiled carcass and put it in a dutch oven or roasting pan with some salt, pepper, and sweet potatoes. Roast covered for 3 hours at 325* It will be falling off the bone tender and tasty |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:37:52 PM EDT
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I have had it and it can tend to be tough and stringy. Pressure cookers, crock pots and smokers yield the best results.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:37:53 PM EDT
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Mom and her siblings had to eat junk like that and pigeons back in the 1930s. I have tried it, but will stick with chicken, pork and beef until/unless times get reeeeeal lean.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:38:29 PM EDT
[#14]
I just finished getting my rabies shots thanks to one, so no way
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:39:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:41:11 PM EDT
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I just finished getting my rabies shots thanks to one, so no way Really?? At first I laughed when I read your reply but apologize now if you had to go through that shit. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:42:39 PM EDT
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I just finished getting my rabies shots thanks to one, so no way I was wondering how that turned out. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:47:47 PM EDT
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Where is the pic of Woody and Buzz Light Year with the caption 'Rabies, Rabies Everywhere"
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:50:18 PM EDT
[#19]
Yup. Smoked it, but it was still kinda stringy. I'd have to be real damn hungry to eat another one.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:50:32 PM EDT
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I ate a little bit of bbq'ed coon years ago. Then I started thinking about how similar they are to cats and tossed it back up.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:50:52 PM EDT
[#21]
thats not wasting meat bubba |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:52:14 PM EDT
[#22]
Wanted too but couln't find any on my trip to FL.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:52:19 PM EDT
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Realistically, I will see more of them this deer season than deer (always do) - and they will probably eat more corn. +I don't like them. ++Will be hunting a some suppressed. +++Want to do some night hunting this year. Oh, and my chickens don't like them either. I just hate wasting meat. So anyone actually try it? At least it does not carry leprosy like dillo can. I have the same problem you do I shoot them and make tooth picks out of their peckers |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:55:04 PM EDT
[#24]
Sure we do.
Low boil for a few hours, then put whole coon into a crockpot or pressure cooker with vegetables and potatoes. Save the penis for a toothpick. 
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:55:53 PM EDT
[#25]
This must be one of those things suburban kids with trucks and fake drawls do to show each other how "redneck" they are....
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:56:47 PM EDT
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I have, and I generally eat all sorts of critters that most people would scoff at, but raccoons carry a nasty parasite:
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-27261--,00.html http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/baylisascaris/gen_info/faqs.html |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:58:38 PM EDT
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I have the same problem you do I shoot them and make tooth picks out of their peckers Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Realistically, I will see more of them this deer season than deer (always do) - and they will probably eat more corn. +I don't like them. ++Will be hunting a some suppressed. +++Want to do some night hunting this year. Oh, and my chickens don't like them either. I just hate wasting meat. So anyone actually try it? At least it does not carry leprosy like dillo can. I have the same problem you do I shoot them and make tooth picks out of their peckers Ha, yup, they have an actual bone in their wiener. You can actually buy them on eBay, I shit you not. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:58:39 PM EDT
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This must be one of those things suburban kids with trucks and fake drawls do to show each other how "redneck" they are.... Are you seriously surprised people eat coon?
Ever had it? It's good and free meat whenever you please. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:59:19 PM EDT
[#29]
My father used to cook them all the time, slow cooked in the oven smothered in bar-b-que sauce they were delicious
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Posted: 10/22/2014 4:59:33 PM EDT
[#30]
A guy that works for me traps them to sell to the black folks.
Have to keep the paws on, so they don't think it's a skinned cat.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:00:17 PM EDT
[#31]
I've had cooked in bbq sauce in the crock pot, wasn't bad at all.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:03:22 PM EDT
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Are you seriously surprised people eat coon?
Ever had it? It's good and free meat whenever you please. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This must be one of those things suburban kids with trucks and fake drawls do to show each other how "redneck" they are.... Are you seriously surprised people eat coon?
Ever had it? It's good and free meat whenever you please. Not. Because, GD. No I have not. I can buy cheap beef or chicken. Why do I want free Shitcat?
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:03:28 PM EDT
[#33]
I've had it and liked it, but not well enough to keep at it. Now I have (black) clients who LOVE them so I give the carcasses to them. It scores me major "loyalty points" with them, so it's good for business.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:14:40 PM EDT
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Honestly I can only say I don't think I have had any - but it might have been on my plate w/o my knowing it. Father's family occasionally cooked stuff up just because (I recall lots of frogs, some turtles, and a dillo - plus delicacies like brain, head cheese, and sweetbreads). My mom's family was more rural/urban. They did not ranch, but were frugal as hell - they raised chicken and rabbits, and enjoyed river seining and squirrel hunting. Beef was rarely on the menu (honestly I don't recall it at all except at annual 4th BBQ's).
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:18:41 PM EDT
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Save the penis for a toothpick. Only in Texas. 
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:19:30 PM EDT
[#36]
No. I don't like the taste of rabies.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:22:03 PM EDT
[#37]
Make sure you buy them with the feet still on. Round here some people shoot dogs, skin em, and sell them as coons.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:22:09 PM EDT
[#38]
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Only in Texas.
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Save the penis for a toothpick. Only in Texas.
I've posted a pic before--I have a whole collection of them. Google it--"coon dick bone" and you will see. They are a long-time novelty. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:24:33 PM EDT
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Ha, yup, they have an actual bone in their wiener. You can actually buy them on eBay, I shit you not. for whatever reason they are cheaper to buy in bulk... had a friend that wanted a coon dick toothpick and found out its almost as cheap to buy 20 as it is just one 
so naturally I decided they would make great gifts for random friends <~still has a bunch of coon dicks in his kitchen cabinets 
as for the taste of raccoon... its just one of those things where it has to be cooked by somebody with experience just like Gar fish. I once had some fried raccoon that tasted like it was marinated in swamp water
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:25:58 PM EDT
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I've posted a pic before--I have a whole collection of them. Google it--"coon dick bone" and you will see. They are a long-time novelty. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Save the penis for a toothpick. Only in Texas.
I've posted a pic before--I have a whole collection of them. Google it--"coon dick bone" and you will see. They are a long-time novelty. its called an Os Baculum. OP- ole man back home used to say that coon tastes about the same as bobcat. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:26:12 PM EDT
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A guy that works for me traps them to sell to the black folks. Have to keep the paws on, so they don't think it's a skinned cat. Geeeeezus!!!!!! 
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:29:27 PM EDT
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Only in Texas.
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Save the penis for a toothpick. Only in Texas.
not a Texas thing... probably not accurate but supposedly started in TN also heard it started in AR I do know all moonshine made by Popcorn Sutton ran off the end of a coon dick coming out the pipe
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:41:28 PM EDT
[#43]
I have had it. I have also had beaver. I found both of them to be greasy and strong tasting. But I was able to eat them. If I was hungry I would eat them again... if nothing else was available.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:44:38 PM EDT
[#44]
Like rabies OP?
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:44:55 PM EDT
[#45]
Classified as an 'unclean' animal for a reason; so, no.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:47:27 PM EDT
[#46]
Tastes great barbequed.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 5:52:30 PM EDT
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I have had it cooked in a pressure cooker and then bbq'ed for sammiches. Good stuff. Same here. I highly recommend it. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 6:01:44 PM EDT
[#48]
Nope, but grandpa used to sell them to people that did.
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Posted: 10/22/2014 6:04:07 PM EDT
[#49]
I killed lots of them for a friend's parents who board horses. They were breaking into the tack room & scaring the horse ladies.
I never ate one, but I would give them to the Mexicans that cleaned out the stalls & they loved them. |
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Posted: 10/22/2014 6:05:40 PM EDT
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Only in Texas.
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Save the penis for a toothpick. Only in Texas.
I'm from Wyoming and my godfather had the baculum (i.e., "penis bone" to you city folk) from a grizzly bear he shot silver plated. He used it as a swizzle stick in drinks for folks from California and the east. It kept them from drinking too much of his booze. |
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