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Used to go Squirrel hunting with my Dad. I got good enough to bark a squirrel with one shot. Basically you place the shot on the branch or tree close enough to the head so the bark does the damage and not the bullet.

Good eating.
 
Flatiowa said:
My grandmother was the same, I just always thought she was nutz growing up (she loved scrambled eggs and “shortbreads” ). When ever we would butcher a pig, sheep or goat she would be there (lived a mile down the road and my dad would let her know) to make sure the put down shot was at the joint of the spine to the skull instead of the customary cross point made from the eyes to the ears so she could harvest the brain. Never did try eating it but she sure seemed to go out of her way to get it, so it might be darn delicious.
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For those unaware, prions are not living cells. In fact, they are not cells at all. They are simply short segments of a weird protein that under some conditions can change its shape. Weirdly, this shape change induces other prion molecules to undergo the same shape change and cause spongiform encephalitis. In humans the disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease after the unfortunate man in which it was first identified. In cows it is called Mad Cow Disease, and in sheep and goats it is called Scrapie. Also weird is the disease is transmissible by eating or inhaling infected brain tissue. Virtually all mammals are susceptible. One of my wife's mentors died from Scrapie after he helped a neighbor dispatch a flock of sheep by shooting them in the head. Brain tissue must have been volatilized and he inhaled it.

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Alarmingly, the prion is quite heat stable, so cooking with scrambled eggs does not deactivate it.
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Stability of BSE infectivity towards heat treatment even after proteolytic removal of prion protein - Veterinary Research

The unconventional infectious agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are prions. Their infectivity co-appears with PrPSc, aberrant depositions of the host’s cellular prion protein (PrPC). Successive heat treatment in the presence of detergent and proteolysis by a keratinase...
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I would NEVER eat brain tissue of ANY animal.

Sweetbreads are a general term for various organ meats, particularly thymus and pancreas. In the past it also included brain, but due to prion disease it seems to have dropped from the vernacular.
 
I don't think he's trying to copy. I think he's trying to look down her shirt.
 
Dana said:
Squirrels are actually pretty tasty. The standard joke is "tastes like chicken", but they don't... they taste more like a Cornish Hen.
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There's little better fun to be had in the woods than squirrel hunting with a 22 - As for recipes, I substitute the chicken for squirrel in this tamale pie recipe - https://pinchofyum.com/chicken-tamale-pie
 
They are great in a jambalaya too. Parboil them a little, bread and fry, throw them in rice cooker with the rice.
 
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a friend's husband had a car that he left of the street for a little while, with the key in the ignition. I noticed the key and let him know about. His reply was that no one was likely to know how to start that antique car or even drive it (sorry, I don't recall what it was, but it was a rare one from the very early 1900s).
 
Bob Noel said:
a friend's husband had a car that he left of the street for a little while, with the key in the ignition. I noticed the key and let him know about. His reply was that no one was likely to know how to start that antique car or even drive it (sorry, I don't recall what it was, but it was a rare one from the very early 1900s).
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It won't be long before you can leave the keys in any car with a manual transmission without worry.
 
My daughter bought a Smart Car with a manual transmission specifically so her friends couldn’t borrow it!

-Skip
 
Skip Miller said:
My daughter bought a Smart Car with a manual transmission specifically so her friends couldn’t borrow it!

-Skip
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I was asked by a family member recently if they could drive my old VW Beetle. I said "no." That was not because they couldn't drive a standard but that old car takes a real driver as it doesn't have PS, PB (no anti-lock), PW, PDL, key fob, etc. Plus they would have been lost trying to start that old carburated car ...
 
No, that's an abacus. An arborist is actually a person who is an expert at heraldry.
 
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Confused? The joke is that this is an actual Lifetime movie.
 
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