When it comes to eating wild game, you've got your glamour animals....deer, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, various fowl.....then you have those animals that don't quite measure up to the romantic, urbanized idea of "eating off the land":
Muskrat, raccoon, young possums, suckers and carp, turtles......my grand parents didn't bother trying to differentiate, it was food and that's all that mattered. As a boy I ate most of it too. By the time I was old enough to believe I should care about such things, times weren't as harsh as they once were, and life was different. But I still have a few family members who continue the practice, and although my grandparents are long gone, their 9 children get together once a year to remember those days by preparing a wild game "feast".....and while I never cared for everything on the menu, some of the more unusual items are pretty doggone tasty.
