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  • drew_s - Apr 02 2009 | food, music, news, detroit

    Quoted: Glemie Dell Beasley is the real deal, a 69-year-old blues musician who learned to sing while picking cotton on an Arkansas plantation, and whose pastime is selling freshly killed raccoons from his house.

    • liz - Apr 03 2009

      do people eat racoons? is that why he is selling them?

    • drew_s - Apr 03 2009

      Yes, I think the article discusses it. They are a southern delicacy, particularly around the holidays. Apparently some of the old-timers like to indulge their raccoon-tooth year round, though.

      On DY today there was a thread about eating muskrats. Apparently Father Gabriel Richard scored a special dispensation in Detroit for muskrat meat during lent back in the day because the trappers here were getting malnourished. They live in water mostly so it is okay. Muskrat dinners are still being served downriver, apparently. But there is some controversy about how far the dispensation extends geographically.

    • tim.slager - Apr 25 2009

      I love that recipe: "let the water jump about a half hour. Then take him out, put him in a pan like that..."

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