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PAMD · Senior Member

Buckwild star "Shain Gandee" found dead in vehicle, along with two others

rumple · Senior Member

I hardly feel qualified to comment, except to note that everything about this is a complete, utter mystery to me. I never heard of that guy, that show or what its premise might be, but this certainly gave a clue; "...MTV released a statement..."

Really? Redneck squirrel hunters on MTV? Since when? I stopped watching that channel when you couldn't just leave it running in the background as you did your household chores, and come running and squealing when Huey Lewis and the News' latest video came on. I killed my first (top-loading) VCR from constantly rewinding Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher" music video and slo-mo'ing through the part where that girl (you know the one) does you-know-what to you-know-who.

Next thing I knew, it was all gangsta rappas (my pal Ernie said they should change the name of the channel to "NTV"), stupid drama-fests about people who looked like they smelled really bad being forced to coexist in luxurious accommodations, or ex-Mickey Mouse Club XII girls who looked like they were mid-way through puberty moaning "Hit Me Again" and giving lap-dances to the cameras in time to "music" that sounded like it was played by garbage trucks at dawn.

I was aware that they had created VH1 for geezers like me so we could watch reruns of Pat Benatar and ZZ Top videos (apparently) and feel really, really old as we "got down" on the sofa, so I haven't seen twenty seconds of MTV in twenty years or so.

So what I'm taking the l-o-n-g route to ask is; so? Does anybody have the faintest clue of what "Buckwild" is/was about? Judging from that rather cryptic photo, I'd guess it was about some teenage squirrel-killer of note, but the show could be about... well, who knows? A family of neanderthals currently have a "hit" show about making duck calls amid staged scenes of extraordinary idiocy, so any show from south of the Mason-Dixon Line is pretty well a crap-shoot (emphasis on "crap") anyway.

Should we be concerned that a nascent River Phoenix or Jim Croce has been snatched away to that great outhouse in the sky before his time, or was he just a minor character in a show with a demographic approximating some backwoods Wal-Mart? Do we wanna know?

PAMD · Senior Member

If you clean and dress a squirrel properly, it will look like a tiny little chicken. I hear the brains taste like "acorn flavored caviar", and the flesh is similar to "dark turkey meat".

Here's a recipe from the Missouri Department of Conservation for Squirrel Pot Pie:

Squirrel Pot Pie

Squirrel pot pie can be made by boiling or pressure cooking squirrels seasoned the same as in dumplings. Remove from the bone. make pie crust from your favorite recipe and line a small to medium square cake pan. Mix squirrel meat with one can of corn, one can of peas, one medium diced onion and one cup of diced cooked potatoes and pour this filling on top of your crust. Cover top of filling with another crust. Punch holes in the top crust and cook until crust is golden brown. Then serve and enjoy.

They also had recipes for converting your favorite "bird feeder invader" to gourmet meals, fit for a king:

jakemac · Senior Member

I'm not sure if I ever tried squirrel or not. When I was a kid, anytime I mentioned that the 'chicken' or 'beef' tasted strange, I was told "IT"S MEAT SHUT UP AND EAT IT !". I learned to stop questioning what was put on the table.

rumple · Senior Member

PAMD wrote:
If you clean and dress a squirrel properly, it will look like a tiny little chicken.

I've had squirrel many times, cooked many different ways. When I was a kid we lived in the boonies in New Mexico, and my uncle raised rabbits and took my brother and I hunting for squirrels all the time. I've had squirrel stew, squirrel burritos, squirrel chili, fried squirrel (I'm starting to feel like Bubba Gump here) and the same goes for rabbit. Even had roadrunner a couple of times. They're not nearly as hard to catch as we've been led to believe, by the way. (A pair of ACME super-sproinger-spring shoes, and they're history.)

PAMD · Senior Member

In reply to Jake's post, the infamous To Tell The Truth "Stroganoff Incident":

PS: I did the same thing to my family with a doe that I shot back of the house the day after Christmas, 1995. The deer was processed by our local butcher, and she thought that it was beef, until the very last morsel was being chewed upon; I then informed them that we've been eating deer meat since January.