ground hog table fare

[vayotehowler]

May seem like an odd question. my granfather told me ground hogs are great eating ?? anyone ever try em??

[slagmaker]

HELL YES!!!!!

The young ones are mighty tasty. They are good as B-B-Q, made into sausage, make a stew, grilled. There are many ways to make young whistle pig.

[FinsnFur]

Surely you jest 

[slagmaker]

No I am not jesting.

I have killed more than one yearling ground hog with a shovel so I could take it in to grandma. Now when they get older DONT use a shovel to try to kill them, you will most likley end up with a pissed off ground hog. That can be a little interesting.

[LORDDAL]

Im with Slagmaker on this darn good eatin specially with some BBQ on em  so is coon

[alscalls]

Young ones are best.....Puts me in mind of eating a large squirrel.......

[slagmaker]

I have been told you can use the older ones for things like sausage but I dont know of anyone actually using an older post pig for anything but target practice.

Coon.... Oh yeah many a meal with barbeque coon. Secret to them is boiling all the grease out. drain the water, debone then mix in your sauce and slow cook it. My grandpa used to take his coons "after skinning" down to a barbeque place just outside of Evansville. That guy was more than happy to take them off my grampa. He had a lot of happy coustomers.

[alscalls]

 

[HaMeR]

What slag said.    Mom used to fry the legs in butter & onions.  The young of the year are the best eating.

Jimbo-- I'm sure you've eaten venison & beef before. Same diet. 

[slagmaker]

Yeah, my grandma told us how to take a older ground hog "not real old" and put him in a brazer. You would gather the drippings and use them for makeing saulves and ointments and even use it in a babys milk to cure diffrent ailments. All the drippings had all the good stuff in it that the ground hog had ben eating. Vitamins and minerals and stuff. They are strickt vegaterians ya know. Unlike a squirell that will eat meat heck even deer will eat youg birds right out of the nest.

[FinsnFur]

Jimbo-- I'm sure you've eaten venison & beef before. Same diet. 

Yeah I have, but I can't imagine eating a rodent though. The possible scenarios of what the thing had been into is staggering.

[HuntnCarve]

Jim, I'm sure HaMer and I can rustle up a few pasture grizzlies for your dining fare.   No need to thank us!

[slagmaker]

Yeah I have, but I can't imagine eating a rodent though.  

You have eaten rabbit and squirrel aint ya? They are rodents.

[pitw]

  The possible scenarios of what the thing had been into is staggering.

Think Ham 

[slagmaker]

Good point PITW

[msmith]

I knowa fellow that used to feed dead sheep to his hogs. Ill take a young groundhog any day.

[pitw]

I knowa fellow that used to feed dead sheep to his hogs. Ill take a young groundhog any day.

There was a fellow over near Okanagan that fed ladies to the hogs.. 

[vayotehowler]

thnaks for the ideas guys, had plenty of rabbit and squrrel just no ground hogs, no judgement just dont wanna eat a coon

[KySongDog]

i'm not eating a coon either (unless I am starving).  Those things are full of worms.  A coon is probably OK if cooked well (like any game animal I suppose) but I have no desire to eat one.

[FinsnFur]

Think ham,  :roflmao:

Ok..good point. I'll take the breaded groundhog fillet please