Raccoon - the other dark meat

[jeffrey]

He rolls into the parking lot of Leon's Thriftway in an old maroon Impala with a trunk full of frozen meat.

Raccoon - the other dark meat.

In five minutes, Montrose, Mo., trapper Larry Brownsberger is sold out in the lot at 39th Street and Kensington Avenue. Word has gotten around about how clean his frozen coon carcasses are. How nicely they're tucked up in their brown butcher paper. How they almost look like a trussed turkey ... or something.

Raccoons go for $3 to $7 - each, not per pound - and will feed about five adults. Four, if they're really hungry...

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[Tree0164]

Yuck I think I have totally lost my appetite

[SnoopyCool]

I don't know if I've consumed coon, but I've had turtle, squirrel, rabbit, deer, and frog legs.

It all tastes like chicken

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Heck, no, it doesn't all taste like chicken. None of those things taste like chicken.
I have yet to eat raccoon, but would try it if served by someone who was not just experimenting. It would have to be someone for whom it was not a novelty, so that they would know what they were doing.

As far as frugality goes, though, I think we can do better than $3-7 per pound for a protein food.

[SnoopyCool]

It was $3-7 each. I don't know the average weight of a racoon, but my neighbor once had a pet racoon that weighed 80 pounds. So that would be $0.09 per pound, max.

[GREENBACK]

I ate some at a wild game dinner this past weekend. It's okay. Kind of like rabbit but slightly gamey. It's not legal to sell any game meat in Ohio So they ask for a donation(church). I guess it is in MO.