“Save a Red! Eat a Grey!”

red squirrel living on the edgeSnacking on squirrels has become chic in certain circles in the U.K., according to today’s New York Times:

With literally millions of squirrels rampaging throughout England, Scotland and Wales at any given time, squirrels need to be controlled by culls. This means that hunters, gamekeepers, trappers and the Forestry Commission (the British equivalent of forest rangers) provide a regular supply of the meat to British butchers, restaurants, pâté and pasty makers and so forth.

Limeys weren’t exactly clamo(u?)ring for squirrel and hazelnut pate until recently, but the Save Our Squirrels campaign–which pits North American invading grey squirrels against Beatrix Potter’s traditional British red squirrels–has seized the popular imagination, and made that same delicacy a favorite at patchwork-pate.co.uk.

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  • G
    Put them in zoos?! What are you on?! Reds were here first, it's the native species. Anyway, if we killed all the greys in England they wouldn't be 'extinct' - North America's full of them!
  • Yes saving reds are just right because their specie is threatened. But eat a grey? Why not just just preserve them by putting them in zoos?
  • eating squirrels how did they come up with it?? those cute little things, as what you had mentioned its meat is delicious but you should watch out for it or else this poor little creature might get extinct
  • I love squirrels cause they are really cute. I don't like to eat the meat of a squirrel. I have no guts.
  • Ok. But not too much, because we don't want to endanger their species. Poor squirrels, I had one for a pet when I was a child. That's why I don't have the courage to eat its meat. No matter how scrumptious it looks.
  • Jessica Lee
    The first edition of The Joy of Cooking, which I have, has recipes for squirrel.
  • teqjack
  • teqjack
    OK, no squirrels (unless "squirrelly" counts) - but bacon martini? Indeed, candied bacon martini?
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