Eat Skunk?

[jon lynn]

I put this on outdoor cooking........but it's not that kind of question, so I put it here too..............

Skunk stew???

Before I left Germany, my daughter and I were watching an old re-run of Happy Days. The one where the Cunninghams help run the dude-ranch. Richie starts out rambeling about the fact that pioneers used to eat skunk........."Yeah, that's right bucko, I said P-U skunk!" When the guest were moaning that the food was beans, again, because Al couldn't get the steer roasted.

Funny..............I thought.

But my daughter looked at me and simply asked, "Really?"

I quickly said , "No way."

But was I a liar? Has a brave soul found a way to munch the smelly animals without, some how, setting off the stink? I really doubt it, but as y'all know, I am wrong from time to time.

Jon

[muledeer]

Here ya go
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,skunk,FF.html
muledeer

[Dan Morris]

Interesting....when ya see one road killed, look a few days later. Even the scavengers leave it...think I will too! Course, I have never been accused of being a gourmet.
Dan

[skeet]

But I have a friend that did. He said it tasted fine and was mostly whiter type of meat. I do know he baked it in an oven. I also know it was a pretty young one. I tried eating an old ground hog once and even though the flavor was good..it was tougher than whipleather. Young coons are ok too. Possum is kinda greasy(well... very greasy) and muskrat(pronounced mus-rat) is ok if ya get the musk glands off the back of 'em. Snappin turkle is pretty good and eel is really good if ya like white meat fish. I never ate rattlesnake but have seen it cooked. I ate a little cobra one time in S E Asia. Was ok once ya got past the snake idea. Them people eat almost everything. I also got to taste some pot bellied pig cooked in a pit over there. It was older and a little strong flavored but not a whole lot different than reglar hog...cept the hog cooked here had some really fine bbq sauce slathered all over it mmmm- mmmm

[PJgunner]

I think the point would be to kill it without triggering off it's squat gun. Then it would probabbly nothing more than skinning, gutting and cooking, but I hold that in theory only. Would I eat one? probably, I ate a lot worse in some of my survival courses in the military.
Paul B.

[jon lynn]

I started surfing the subject more, and the only reasonable answer I could find to dispatch the little stink bombs is to drown them.



It recomends a old box trap, with a long line on it to drag the creature to it's watery death. Kinda cold blooded in my opinion, just to see if you can eat a less than desirable animal.



So I will just keep telling my daughter "No way."

[skeet]

I dispatched everything with a 22 short to the head. Only had one skunk ever spray when I did it. And i caught lots of 'em. I got almost as much for a prime skunk fur as a musrat. But I still didn't eat 'em. I sold all the musrat and coon carcasses as I could catch and a possum ever now and then! I sold every snapping turkle I caught too. I remember getting 75 cents for a musrat or a coon. The hides were much higher. I even got up to 3 bucks for a skunk and 4.50 for a black musrat. Lot of money to a 9-12 yr old kid!!

[Rapier]

Do not know about eating one, but, a big skunk makes a fine hat.
Ed

[TreeDoc]

After watching the TV program "My Big Redneck Wedding" the other night, nothing surprises me and I bet there's a bunch of Skunk consumed by folk of the same like!