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Raccoon Hunting In Detroit
2009-04-03
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When selecting the best raccoon carcass for the special holiday roast, both the connoisseur and the curious should remember this simple guideline: Look for the paw.

"The paw is old school," says Glemie Dean Beasley, a Detroit raccoon hunter and meat salesman. "It lets the customers know it's not a cat or dog."

Beasley, a 69-year-old retired truck driver who modestly refers to himself as the Coon Man, supplements his Social Security check with the sale of raccoon carcasses that go for as much $12 and can serve up to four. The pelts, too, are good for coats and hats and fetch up to $10 a hide.

While economic times are tough across Michigan as its people slog through a difficult and protracted deindustrialization, Beasley remains upbeat.

Where one man sees a vacant lot, Beasley sees a buffet. "Starvation is cheap," he says as he prepares an afternoon lunch of barbecue coon and red pop at his west side home.
Well, maybe one comment: I remember our poor relations (which meant they were really poor) from out in the country occasionally bringing Nannie a mess of squirrels or 'coons for our supper. Don't remember particularly what 'coon tasted like, but squirrel was good (if somewhat scrawny in the meat department). And no, it didn't taste like chicken; it tasted like squirrel.

Rest at the link. Apparently Detroit is reverting to the wild. (Yeah, yeah, I know - how can they tell?)
Posted by:Barbara Skolaut

#5  type in "detroit city council" on youtube and prepare to LYAO. It's so bad you're almost embarrassed for the idiots on the council..."almost" being the operative word.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2009-04-03 23:15  

#4  perhaps if we offered a bounty on parasites like said fat-ass Council-tard(s) including Mrs. Conyers-tard?
Posted by: Frank G   2009-04-03 22:11  

#3  how can they tell?

One difference is that wilderness does not have fat-ass City Council-tard Barbara Collins railing about The White Man.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-04-03 21:56  

#2  Good thing for 'TROIT RACCOONS + JACKALOPES, etc. that its EASTER = LENT SEASON [read, FISH + VEGGIES].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-04-03 21:49  

#1  Detroit has miles of "urban prarie" - people are starting to buy up cheap lots just to organic farm. 40 yrs of libtard policies, Dem ran city councils and mass corruption will do that to a city.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2009-04-03 21:26  

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