Back in 2008, when everyone thought Mike Huckabee was kinda normal, Blatherwatch brought this up:
Huck-A-Bee told Joe Scarborough today: "When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels ... in the dorm room."
Oops. There went Huckabee's normal. Or did it?
Today we live in the age of the Ramen noodle and the gas station bearclaw. Most of us don't know if squirrel eating means you're hillbilly or just mentally ill. But there's still a crucial section of the population who can dig it. Maybe, for them, it wasn't eating varmints that dinged Huckabee's electability... he just wasn't trying hard enough. Was Huckabee out-varminted by Sarah Palin and her Valkyrian slaying of wolves from helicopters?
Hmm... I wonder if there could be a secret here for getting electoral traction with the Grizzly Adams/Yosemite Sam demographic? With the midterms coming up, Democrats need to start killing and eating bigger and wilder varmints... As the Obama-haters all think he's Kenyan anyway, why not break out with a Wildebeest hunt? Sample stump speech: "Man, that bull Wildebeest tasted good roasted over an open fire... all the better for having been slain with one's own war club."
Popcorn poppers? Helicopters? For pussies.
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I've eaten lots of squirrel. It's really a very tasty treat in the fall. Parboiled and fried with gravy and fried taters. Mmmm mmmm.
ReplyDeleteThe problem, as you described, is that people have no idea where their food comes from. That Mcdonalds barf burger is so frickin far from the feed lot steer to most people that they could not imagine making the connection.
On friday I've got 150 baby chicks coming that I will raise in a very humane and healthy sort of way. Around the end of July beginning of Aug they will all have their necks sliced, featheres plucked, guts ripped out and be washed and packaged for a group of people who love their poultry to be corn-free and of the finest quality available.
Smetime in the fall I will help one of my neighbors slaughter and butcher a beef. I'll cut up the liver (cause that's what I do well) and put 1/2 the meat and liver in my freezer along side the veggies we freeze and can from the garden.
I know where my food comes from and am glad of it.