Topic #8-Random food interest

I saw an episode where he tries squirrel while experiencing Uganda culture. I immediately thought of an old hunting friend of mine, Ian, who could if need be live in the forest without aid from the modern world. I say this because to this day he will kill and eat just about everything including squirrel and porcupine. He actually is really good at getting porcupines because he can sell the quills to Native American Indians for about twenty cents per quill. To top it off I was talking to my Grandpa about Ian’s hunting abilities, and he said that squirrel was actually pretty good when breaded and fried, almost like chicken. When I asked him where he had acquired this knowledge, he said that squirrel used to be his Sunday dinner when he was little due to the great depression. He said they would get whatever fish they could from a local river during the week, but on the weekend they would look for those big reddish squirrels and typically they would always be able to get one. He said a couple times they tried possums but their meat was really greasy and not as good as the squirrels. So I guess some seemingly foreign ideas are closer to home than you think. Foreign unusual diets do seem odd to me, but if that is what you have to work with I guess it can be good too.