I grew up virtually (actually!) dirt poor in the Piney Woods of east Texas, in and around Jefferson. I remember that Mother always cooked or rendered the coons outside over an open flame. I also remember the meat being greasy, but my mom and dad "returning grace" at every meal, even if the main course was coon. So I've been there and eaten that, and have no intention of trying it again! Having said that, if the SHTF and if we find ourselves living off the grid and chowing down on whatever we can scrounge up, you can betcha that I'll be serving up coon and hard tack if that's what it takes. I will cook it outside and downwind from where we're living! :-)

I had a local guy offer to cook a coon if I’d supply the coon. I supplied it and he cooked it with his Mama’d recipe and brought it over. It seems he cooked it like hook n line outlined. He had veggies in there also. It was pretty good, and didn’t seem greasy.

Anybody here eaten Armadillo?

Yep. Grandma called them 'Hoover hogs';. There was a saying with my dad's work crew. "Things are looking up around here. I just saw an armadillo cross the road and nobody was chasing it."

If coon hide prices went back to $20, most of our coon problems would go away. When I was growing up, we hunted them on foot, horseback and with dogs. Good times. It sure kept us out of a lot of trouble in town.