Who eats it? How do you prepare it? I'm hungry!

Not very many people eat em, at least not to my knowledge

I tried it, battered and fried, it was very greasy. I would not suggest it.

https://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/1997/fall/raccoon.shtml

Yeah, I know that hogs and deer carry many diseases as well but not nearly as many as racoons.

People bbq them and cook um in crock pots. Never had it myself. Hear its a very greasy meat. If its anything like their hides I beleive it.

All my family in LA makes squirrel and coon sauce piquante every Christmas. Usually 4 squirrels for each coon in the pot. Not bad at all.

Its meat. There's a reason people raise cows, don't go into it thinking its gonna be a ribeye but its not bad. I don't think white tail is that good but I eat it because I kill them. Just like anything there's good ways and bad to cook it. I don't stock my freezer with coon but it'll eat.

Baked a young one, thought it was good!

None of which holds a candle to the pathogens on industrial-processed chickens and sometimes in the meat of a thousand ground-up cattle. Doubt the OP was about to whip up a nice dinner of raccoon tartare, anyway.
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Back home, they boil em first, then bake on a bed of sliced sweet potatoes, covered with more sweet potato slices. If you don't bake it too long and dry it out, its quite good. Where I grew up coon is a rare delicacy.

Cook them well done. Coons carry a brain worm that humans can contract. It's is very unpleasant from what I have read. You do not have to eat the brain to contract them either. That is false if you read it.

Boil the coon to get tender, then bake in over surrounded by irish potatoes or sweet potatoes, tabasco peppers and drizzled with a little of the pepper sauce if you like. One of my favorites from my Grandma's cooking arsenal.

Fisherman's Pride, in Trinity, sells dressed coon...I do not know the price though.

its funny a mexican guy here at work just ask me if i would bring him a coon. He grew up in Mexico and he said his mom would make chili Colorado out of coon. he told me it was great.I think i will get him one just to taste it

Hunted them with dogs in my younger years and sold their pelts. Never ate one though.

do it man... and report back!!

Why would you?

Two guys are standing next to a split rail fence looking out at a pasture full of Holstein's. One of tbe fellas looks at the other and says "I'll go out there and wrestle one of those beasts down and squeeze that disgusting looking growth under its belly, if you'll drink whatever comes out."

Imagine if that guy's reply had been "Why would you?"


Chupa

Lathered in bbq sauce and put on the smoker. They ain't bad, but it ain't steak either. I always try to kill at least one each trip to my lease so I can eat one, but I don't go out of my way and momma said it ain't coming home.

I had a neighbor from Mississippi who prepared coons the same exact way. She wanted every coon I killed and kept her freezer full with them. Sadly she passed away a couple of years ago. I would never eat one but she treated coon meat like ribeyes.


Reggie