My new neighbors next door seem like pretty nice people when I've been
forced to interact with them. But sometimes I'll be in the hallway and
a strange smell emanates from their apartment. It smells like they are
cooking something — if the thing they are cooking is skunk. Because
the smell is pretty much like skunk.
I would have thought that maybe somebody had tracked in some skunky
smell from the outside. But the smell comes and goes. And it particularly
seems to be there around dinner hour.
Anyway, I started wondering if there were any members of our own species
who eat skunk. I've heard of people eating some pretty strange things
sometimes, so you never can tell. I decided to do a search on the internet
and find out about eating skunk.
Here was one recipe I found:
ROAST SKUNK
1 skunk, scent bag removed
2 sliced carrots
1 c. clear soup
1 tsp. onion juice
Dissolve 1 bouillon cube in 1 cup hot water. Skin, clean, and remove
scent bag from skunk. Parboil in salted water 15 minutes. Drain off
water. Then place meat in fresh water and steam until tender, about 1
hour. Transfer to roasting pan and put in oven at 375 degrees. Add 1
cup of clear soup, 2 sliced carrots and 1 teaspoon of onion juice and
cook uncovered for 2 hours.
I also found one for skunk french fries.
You would think there would be a recipe for barbecue skunk. Especially
mesquite barbecued skunk. Mesquite smoke pretty much makes any meat
taste like formaldehyde anyway, so you think it would be the perfect
combination.
Here's another recipe from the same link as the above Roast Skunk:
BAKED SKUNK
1 fat skunk
2 lbs. salt
1 flat board
4 nails
Carefully clean and prepare fat skunk. Soak in salt water for 3 days.
Select a flat board of green oak, less than 1 inch thick. Carefully
stretch skunk on board and nail down legs. Place skunk on board in
preheated oven at 375 degrees for 1-1/2 hours. After cooking time is
up, take skunk and board out of oven. Carefully take nails out of board.
Cautiously take the skunk off the board and discard the skunk. Then eat
the board.
I would say that one is the most sensible recipe yet.
Incidentally I did a Google search for "barbacue skunk" (a typo) and got
one of those nifty Google search suggestions back…
"Did you mean: barbecue skunk?" it asked.
I think it should have been more like "Did you mean: barbecue SKUNK?"
Laugh my ass off.
Oh yeah I remember. The best tree post ever! (At least on my blog.)
do you remember the tree you took last year and I added the roots of a tree ?? that was a great tree at the park! 🙂
PS did take a few photos. Of a tree. :p
Speaking of white meat, that picture of Miss Love Hewitt sort of reminds me of the floating mountains of Pandora.
Definitely no skunks in Germany. Ok, there are some politicians who are probably skunks or will at least reincarnate as skunks. But we got raccoons here, pirates of the trash cans. They are living in Hessen and in the Eifel.
Don't wish such a thing on the skunks. Skunks are good guys. Politicians return as dung beetles and maggots.
Ed, are your neighbours perhaps from Ceylon? These folks' kitchen is very intensive smelling at least for my experience.
Well from other sources than my own it seems that the culture of the Valley People is intensively centered around shopping malls, bad restaurants, and crystal meth. UPDATE: New info that has come my way indicates that my neighbors were originally from down near Tri-Cities. If this proves to be correct I will have let you know.
Not much is known about the culture of the Spokane Valley-people. Perhaps you could do some investigations about them and promovate 🙂
No, I don't think so. I think they are from that mysterious entity known as the "Spokane Valley." 😆
Tri-Cities? Tripolis!
Barbecued tripe. Yum. :yes:
Sure. That's like snipe, isn't it?I went on some snipe hunts when I was in Boy Scouts. Never did catch one though. They are elusive little devils!:)
TRIPE???!!!! :no: :down:
I have eaten tripe one time. Never again.