Me too

Always meatballs fondued deep fried

Guy who used to work with me grew up in the inner city in Cleveland and ate it regularly. I agreed to gut a few carcasses for him when he heard i trapped because he hadnt had it for so long. He was spose to cook me some bbq coon but his deep freeze went out while he was gone for a weekend. I was lookin fwd to it

I wont try it myself. Nothing against those who have but every critter that I shoot or trap the carcass goes in the backyard in the woods. Coyotes drag off and eat everything but coon. The bugs will eat it down to the ground but coyotes wont touch em. Figured they must know something I don’t.

A gun club that I belong to has a muskrat and coon dinner every year as a fundraiser. This has been a tradition for 30+ years. We sell out of tickets early and still have people that want to come eat. We have a black fella come in and do the cooking using a family recipe. We prepare fresh greens, hominy, slaw and home made corn bread. Of course alcohol is provided as well.

In this area muskrat and coon dinners are the norm for fraternal organizations and churches. We were getting anywhere from $6-$8 for the coon meat. Unfortunately, this year is very different due to the CHINESE FLU. We had to cancel our dinner because of state restrictions and our buyer was'nt taking any extra coon meat. Thus we aren't trapping coons this year.

Ate it few times. Tried just about every critter when I was young. In the 80's I'd get 3dollars a piece for them if they were good and fresh. The people I sold em to said I didn't know what I missing. Oh I did! but I had pork chops to eat

I have tried it (BBQ) didn't really like it.

Sold a few hundred of them to people who did eat them though.

Yep, my crazy uncle wanted ever fresh 8- 12 lb coon I trapped as a kid. He would cook them up on a Sunday. All the wild outdoor boys like myself, other cousins were always there to eat the wild game Uncle Jr. would cook up for us. He drank plenty of Pabst Blue Ribbon all us boys would be drinking Hires Root Beer While the coons were roasting we heard old hunting fishing stories, learn knots, teach us how to set snares for rabbits. his version of birds and bees, the positives of "big girls" how to make apple jack. Yeah the cousins and I still talk about our crazy Uncle Jr. when we get together.

I think all kids would be better off if they had grown up with a crazy uncle jr .

I ate a BBQ coon once. It was edible but I couldn't get it out of my mind what I was eating. It would be good if a person was hungry. Most folks here have never been really hungry.
In the depression my Dad would get fledgling pigeons from the nests in the barn and they'd have pigeon pie. Sometimes you eat what you got!

The good life.

I’ve never been that hungry. Yet.

When my Dad and uncles were kids a neighbor asked them if they caught a coon and had a extra carcass, he’d like one to cook and eat. So they caught a Red Fox, skinned it, cut off the head and tail and gave the neighbor the carcass. A few days later, my Dad asked the neighbor how the coon was ? The neighbor replied, “ a little stringy , but not bad.”

At Wild Game dinners they have it

I was thinking the same thing!

Years ago.

Hahaha!

Used too eat it. Taste buds now prefer deer and walleye.

Barbecued coon is pretty good and baked possum with cornbread is also good.

Rickey

Illegal to sell here in Georgia as stated before, but I’ve seen $20 donations and $5 donations for possums. They can also get you turkey rights as long as the landowner gets to keep the coons and possums, lol.

I really enjoyed the story of crazy Uncle Jr. Good days for sure