Racoon sliders?

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I just received a text message from Adam Lee at Siduri, that I have to share the tail end of.

“…am in South Carolina and just had one of our pinots with racoon sliders, seriously.”

Anyone else ever eat racoon?

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Not knowingly…

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I’ll be in South Carolina next week…I’ll report back

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No, but we did have a beef tongue pizza last night

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Cause Georgia is far too civilized for such cuisine. [rolleyes.gif]

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Mel-

That pizza looks pretty tasty. What kind of cheese did you use?

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Well, in the city anyways…

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We were at a Kosta Browne / Jemrose winery dinner in Chicago and
the pizza was a special request as a gag present for one of the guest
(the guy has the palate of a yak and no yak avail.)
BUT it was really good. I have no idea what cheese was used, sorry!

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Beef tongue is absolutely delicious if cooked properly…

yummmmm

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Yes, one of my favorite dishes when we are in Brasil is Lingua de Vaca à Mineira (Minas Gerais style tongue stew). Also, here is a pic of a low end wine shop in Rio Centro with a sign advertising smoked tongue:

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Peter,
Too much rabies in Raccoons here in ATL to eat them.
Greasy meat. Probably makes for great sliders!
Beef tongue rocks BTW. One of my favorite colder dishes at Tasty China right now.
Don

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We need to head back to Tasty soon.

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When I was a little kid, as the oldest I always got the odd jobs while butchering. One of my jobs with beef was cleaning the tripe as well as removing the tongue and brain. (We no longer eat the brain.)

My favorite way to eat tongue is boiled and minced in a cold salad, with shaved onion, parsley, celery, salt, pepper and vinegar n oil. It’s my mom’s recipe from the Veneto.

For some reason, the thought of eating varmints doesn’t agree with me at all. Have you ever smelled a racoon or possum? If I was hungry enough though…?

Having grown up with horses as an American, the thought of eating horse is not only repulsive but given the role of horse in our culture, to me is despicable and unloyal. But in Europe horse and donkey is a favored meat. Curiously, given his druthers a mountain lion favors horse over beef as well.

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Gopher is not a varmint?

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Bryan Harrington is headed to South Carolina soon. I asked him to bring back the recipe, Peter, so we can have some with you, JT, and Brian L next time I’m down your way…maybe one of your Syrahs would go well with them? [cheers.gif]


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Must have been FreakMount. According to Manlin, he has the palate of a yak.

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Horse is YUMMY! We eat it all the time in the Veneto. I know, horses are noble and beautiful and all but, since a smart horse compared to a retarded pig is STILL dumb as rocks, I have no qualms at all about it. I also love Seppia (cuttlefish) and there’s a marine biologist in Monterey who thinks they are smarter than dolphins.

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The hard or soft palate?

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We talking just burgers here, or does oral sex count?

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