Having Muskrat for dinner on Thursay
 

I picked up 5 from a local trapper today, my neighbors wife is going to cook them for us tomorrow, cant wait, yum yum,,,,

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That is funny, on my local radio station today they were having "redneck wars" and one of the questions was "what is the tenderest part of a muskrat"

Your going to have to tell me how the tenderloins are because that was the answer of course

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It's all good, this is my third muskrat dinner this year...

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ive never even thought of eating muskrat, doesnt sound good

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young gun they were delicious . If I said we had marsh rabbits would that have mor e appeal..

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wow. dont think i would think of eatin them either. yuck......

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i have shot, trapped, and skinned way too many to ever consider eating them.....but Ron whatever floats your boat bud.......

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They will float my boat if they are cooked right.

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they are good.but possum is better
radical

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I've never had possum

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I usually get my rats from road kill in the summer so they are pre cooked. Just kidding what ever floats your boat. In fact if siomeone was to cook them I would try it.

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Probably not as good as armadillo.:D

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Had it again on Mon nite, this time it was the best yet, those hind quarters were really big , about 70 people there at this sitting...

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That just isn't right!

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......just don't say it tastes like chicken !!!! [:'(][:'(][:'(]

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whats a musk rat? do they look like otters? how big do they get? im just curious because i dont think we have them down here and i dont think ive ever seen one and i sure as heck havent eaten one.

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I believe they're like your nutria. Although I've never eaten nutria.

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nutria look like a beaver with no tail, so basiclly they`re a big rat?

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Well now you know what a muskrat looks like.:D
http://www.holoweb.com/cannon/muskrat.htm
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/mamma...ts/muskrat.htm

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it does look like a beaver or a nutria its not really something id look at and say "i wonder what it taste like? Lets cook it."

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Muskrat, nutria, groundhog, possum, racoon, beaver(the kind that lives on the water)...
I have been a professional chef for over 27 years and can make almost anything taste good, but these animals are just outside what I consider a good starting point for a meal.
If I got really desperate, I may try the groundhog, only because they have a decent diet being vegetarians. Their meat most probably won't taste like marsh mud.
I don't know how you could eat that meat. But when I watch "Fear Factor", I couldn't eat a lot of what those folks put into their mouth either. To me, muskrat would fall into this catagory.[:'(]

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Groundhog aint bad if you trim alot of the fat off of it. Same with coon.

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[:o] Ohhh, I do not even want to imagine it[:'(]. I think I would rather eat a dozen hamsters, but skinning those little things would drive me nuts:D