Food for thought

[tickranch]

I know some folks on here are "adventurous" with your diets.  Here is something for you to try.  Personally, I think I'll pass, but I know there are a lot of people who like them.

[segsarge]

Sounds interesting,I wonder what armadillo tastes like though.

[krank]

Looking at road kill and bullet trauma, its a strange pink. There was a warning out that armadillos can carry leprosy.
Years ago, I posted a recipe for skunk sandwich spread. It was for real and I got it out of a trapper magazine.

[Walleye Joe]

I'm not that hungry yet. Y'all can let me know how it tastes!!!

[krank]

Possum on the half shell.

[tickranch]

With all of the road kill armadillos I've seen beside the road here lately, it's a prime opportunity to taste test that recipe! LOL

[bigjohn]

Every year they are moving a little farther north. Just another varmint we don't need.

[krank]

When I was mushroom hunting, their digs were everywhere. 20 years ago, they claimed they were coming up on produce trucks and that they couldnt survive a winter up here. Wrong. Then they said they couldnt cross the Missouri. Wrong again. They float like a ball until they land on a beach. Shoot one sometime and watch them take off like a kangaroo bouncing 3 ft like a basketball. For the last 5 years, I have shot them while deer hunting.

[tickranch]

Don't know how true it is, but I've been told it doesn't make any difference where you shoot one, as they'll die anyway, because their blood doesn't clot. I kind of find that hard to believe, but I'm not an expert!

[segsarge]

First live ones I ever saw was when I was in the Army stationed down in Georgia. Years later, I started seeing them here in the summer. Now they're here year round. I heard the same thing about them carrying leprosy,some biologists claimed it isn't true but why chance it.
Hadn't heard that their blood doesn't clot, but I've never shot one so who knows? I do know they can disable a Dept of Corrections inmate transport van.

[krank]

I remember Sarges adventure with the armadillo breaking the gas tank. My mechanic says not to try to run over one because they jump straight up at the last second and go through your radiator like a cannon ball. They scream to. I shot one with a pistol that was hiding under my tractor and it screamed and my son was shocked by it. He said "What in the world is that?"

[tickranch]

I was trying to find out if their blood will clot and found this, thought it was kind of funny?

In many parts of the world, including the United States, you might find armadillo meat on the menu. During the Great Depression of the 1920’s, armadillos were nicknamed “Hoover Hogs” by the people who ate them. The name was a bitter jab at President Herbert Hoover, who had promised “a chicken in every pot” but had instead presided over a collapse of the US economy following World War I

[krank]

They had Hoover Pie and Hoover Soup and Hoover Pudding. All poor substitutes for the real thing.