Diners go nuts for squirrel pie
 

Pub customers in York are going nuts for their local pub's latest special - squirrel pie and mash.
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Andy and Stephanie Cross, of the Black Swan, were already keen on serving game, reports the York Press.

Rabbit, pigeon and hare were already on the menu - and now they have been joined by squirrel.

"It has had a great response - people were calling especially to see if we had it on," said Mr Cross.

"It tastes like a strong rabbit - just a more meaty taste."

Mr Cross said it was his wife who came up with the idea: "She read something about it and then unearthed some recipes," he added.

The squirrel pie was put on the specials menu and proved so popular that the pub has run out and is now waiting for more supplies.

The grey squirrels come from butchers who are supplied by gamekeepers who trap grey squirrels to try to protect Britain's declining native red squirrels. ewwwwwww :helpme

i've had squirrel stew, its very nice. My mate who cooked it left the squirrels nuts in the stew and who ever got served them had to eat them, luckily it wasn't me :)

mmmm...goes well with a nice bubonic bundt cake for desert

I don't think I can eat that.

is that a gay game :helpme :1orglaugh

I've eaten all sorts of weird things and game (boar, rattle snake, venison, rabbit) But I dont think I could do that.

i'll try just about anything once. hell, i've drank snakes blood in bangkok, and eaten dog in cambodia.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh ozzie tour?? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

"She read something about it and then unearthed some recipes"

Maybe the recipe had been buried for a reason, lol.

Nah, I guess whatever people want. People eat squab all the time without knowing it's just pigeon, right?

Hmmm....now if they would like Rat pie, I think we could kill two birds with one stone...

Where in Bangkok please? I want to try.

rabbit is not weird - it's tasty as hell and I make the best rabbit stew on the planet

on the other hand I've eaten frog legs, ostrich and lots of pussy

guess it's not so bad. if im hungry i will eat it.

I've had squirrel before. It's not good at all. Pretty gross actually.

maybe ill visit the park and get a few and make a pie any recipes??

My grandmother use to fry squirrel meat in a frying pan just like you do chicken with flour on it. It is not bad, but then again anything fried is usually ok ;-) ...

thats is true i might smother it in onions :)

ok i snagged a couple fat ones because they were the slowest runners. im skinning them now ill add carrots and taters and onion

hmm tasted like squirrel maybe like dark meat part of chicken

I actually am cooking rabbit pot pie right now :)

I tried raccoon for the first time this past Christmas. It tastes like a flavorful roast. I think the nastiest thing I have ever tried was opossum. :Oh crap

mine was just a joke :helpme :1orglaugh

It's lunch time here, WHY OH WHY did I open this thread!!???!! :Oh crap

Same, I really do enjoy squirrel stew. Tasty stuff. Apparently squirrel cheek is a delicacy.