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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:21:34 JST Pissed Hippo
   I'm srs though that the eaten pets/park animals thing is probably both true and like one person out of tens of thousands
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:25:02 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     Dinner gets very local for squirrel-eating Seattleite

     Squirrels came to her stove top thanks to an angry neighbor, old cookbook and quirky cuisine of the United Kingdom, she says.

     Sciurus carolinensis had long been a nuisance around her house, crawling into the eaves and making a mess. She demanded that her husband “repatriate” the cute critters. He’d trap and then release them at nearby Cowen Park. Until, that is, an outraged man cursed at Herrera for dumping his bushy-tailed problems on neighbors.

     Vorass had read about the British appetite for squirrels. In England, eating nonnative gray squirrels has been viewed as a way to save the indigenous red squirrel. Following a “Save a red, eat a gray!” campaign, some of London’s finest restaurants started serving up the Yank transplants, according to The New York Times.

     While leafing through “Joy of Cooking,” Vorass spotted a squirrel recipe. If they were going to exterminate the varmints, she told Herrera, they were going to try eating them.

     #Seattle

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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:26:35 JST Pissed Hippo

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @tk yeah people do eat squirrels although if you got caught in a park catching them to eat people would be pretty pissed
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     fiat volvntas tva (scathach@stereophonic.space)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 08:03:48 JST fiat volvntas tva

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @sun @tk My last uni had HUGE squirrels and during covid I bought a book on trapping figuring that if things got really bad I could bug in and survive on the local squirrels long enough for people to die/flee enough to safely hitch-hike home
     
     Probably not a practical plan but stealthy small mammal hunting seems like a useful skill in general
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     bonifartius (bonifartius@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 08:25:07 JST bonifartius

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     • fiat volvntas tva

     @scathach @tk @sun cook well, squirrels often carry leprosy iirc 😬

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