Mike Huckabee’s Squirrel Recipe

By John Farrier in Everything Else, Food & Drink on Mar 16, 2008 at 5:42 pm

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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee told reporters that when he was in college, he and his friends used to cook squirrels in a popcorn popper — because that was the only appliance they were allowed to use. Slate V‘s Samantha Henig headed to Central Park intent on discovering whether or not one really could cook a squirrel successfully in a popcorn popper.

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  1. MrPumpernickel
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    When were home popcorn poppers invented anyway? Were they around while he was in college? Or did they perhaps have an industrial sized popcorn popper at his college, if so why?

    This all sounds too suspect for me, even though it can be safely assumed that squirrels are good eats.

  2. sandy
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    this movie would be a lot better if they actually tried the recipe with squirrel. F***ing new yorkers.

  3. Alex
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    Should’ve used a catapult instead.

  4. Nastia
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    gross, their school food must’ve been really bad… I am so glad my school’s is rated #1

  5. Verlier
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    it looks awful cooked that way, I don’t think a squirrel would look better, and anyway, squirrels are cute, why kill them?, let’s eat ugly animals only.

  6. Eater
    Mar 16th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    But, but, the cute animals are the tastiest!

  7. M.S.P.
    Mar 17th, 2008 at 12:16 am

    When were popcorn poppers invented? I don’t think the hot-air ones are more than 20 or 25 years old, but I had a popper in the 70s that looked kinda like a curved double boiler, with electrical coils between the two pans (It didn’t look anything like the popper in that video; I’ve never seen one of those). You put the popcorn in it, and some oil, and plugged it in, and it popped them. I guess you could probably fry something up in one.

    As for eating squirrel, that was nothing unusual back in my native east Texas, at least not a few decades back. The start of squirrel season in the fall used to be the biggest outdoor event of the year. It kinda compares to what I’ve read about moose season in Sweden. Everyone, rich and poor, used to head out to hunt squirrels (deer were extremely rare until conservation efforts brought them back in the 60s). There were ‘squirrel camps’ all over. Fried squirrel with gravy was the main dish, but there were many variations. Personally, I don’t get the culinary attraction. Squirrel is very gamey. But hunting them is fun.

  8. ted
    Mar 17th, 2008 at 6:22 am

    I hear that’s how the Plague started.

  9. Jacques
    Mar 17th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    Huckabee must have eaten a lot of Squirrel brains, that would explain a lot. I almost feel sorry for him now. NOT. Idiot.

    Rabbit would have been a better replacement for squirrel than chicken. Think about it.

  10. Mr. Awesome
    Feb 3rd, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    Skin and field dress them and toss them in a pot of chicken stock and boil until the meat falls off the bone.

    Remove bones and add potatoes, carrots, onion, salt, pepper and some corn starch

    Mmm mmm mmm squirrel stew.

  11. Troddles
    Feb 4th, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    Why eat the ugly animals? They’re the useful ones.
    Eat the cute ones, they don’t do anything.


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