Peoples Attitudes, Depression, Roadkill Recipes and Other Thoughts

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Spice and Roadkill

Here in Michigan, we enjoy winter storms (got 7” of snow last night). The best thing is the road commission spreads salt on the road. Roadkill is both preserved, and already salted to taste!

 

[Randy Stewart]

I don't know where you're at in MI but I know this morning going through Proud Lake from Wolverine Lake to the Wixom Assembly Plant I had to pass up 3 skunks and a possum all frozen and salted. Could have fed the family for a week.

 

[Ken K]

Waste...waste...waste!!!!!

Could you possibly pick them up on the way home and send them on over? Pepe' ala orange with rosemary...makes my mouth water just thinking about it!

 

[Jim Webb]

Ken.
Do you also like and use civet cats? I may be able to get you some live ones. You could run them over as needed. Let me know.

 

[SteelMaiden]

Jim, Jim, Jim,

You really have a lot to learn. catching them live and running over them as needed is like going to the cat-fish farms to catch your fish! It just ain't sporting! Wow, we have a lot of work to do with you, you poor babe in the woods!

We gotta get you started out real slow, you're just trying to catch up way too fast. My advice to you is that you start out shootin' squirrels first, once you've aclimated to them, you can maybe move to some of the milder road kill, some of that already salted and tenderized stuff from WI?

Before long, you'll be licensed to hunt deer with your pick'em up truck!

Best of luck, we are all pulling for you!

 

[Kevin Mader]

SteelMaiden has got it right: no fun shooting fish in a barrel.

 

[Michael T]

Well dawgie - lookie here...

SteelMaiden...

You are really starting to sound like you are getting a solid hang of that North Carolina livin'. Ain't it grand?

I was in Asheville this past weekend. God's country doesn't even begin to describe it. If my wife could find a job there - we'd move in a heart beat...

Cheers!!

 

[Al Dyer]

I don't know, my insurance agent is starting to wonder why I hit an average of 3 does per year.

I might have to lay low for awhile and stick to the picker-uppers.

The only problems with winter picker-uppers is you have to ensure that they use salt on the roads and not sand or calcium chloride. The sand makes it a little gritty, and the calcium chloride gives you the shakes for a few days.

Also, the picker-uppers always seem to be on a busy road where your activities can be monitored. Hard to explain to the state trooper why the deer is in two parts, has tire tracks instead of a tail, and has an empty bottle of Jack Daniels in its mouth.

But hey, after a little salt (curing agect) and plowing (tenderizing agent) even the oldest, toughest buck can be a plate full of sheer heaven.

Well, on to more mundane subjects!

 

[Kevin Mader]

A few questions:

I noticed this year that skunks appeared to be out early. Before that, only the odd squirrel on the centerline (lying motionless of course). Will this mean folks will get their fill early and pass up on them in a month or so? Would that be sacrileges or just a normal reaction from being spoiled (so to speak)?

Also, if the varmint is tore to pieces and spread over a fair distance, is it appropriate to take all the bits or should one leave some for other passersby? I’m confused on the etiquette.

One last thing: last night on my ride home, I believe I hit a small frog making his way across the road. How many frogs must I collect to make a decent meal for myself?

Kev

 

[Kevin Mader]

Al,

The shakes sound awful!! Maybe this was a government ploy to keep them for themselves?

Kev