I wouldn't taste good in a pot pie...
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| LA Health Officials Take Action After Local Supermarket Sells Raccoons As Food | |
| 2015-02-12 | |
| The Health Department has taken action after a local supermarketâs frozen foods section featured an unusual item. Inspectors from the LA County Health Department visited the Metro Supermarket in Temple City on Tuesday, after being informed that the market was selling raccoons as food. As long as it's raised in a humanitarian cage, California should be ok Employees at the market declined to appear on camera, but did show entire raccoons, frozen, bagged, and selling for $9.99 per pound. The employees say raccoon is considered a delicacy in China. Customer Christina Dow was at the market, and upon seeing the frozen raccoons, filmed the scene on her cell phone. She shared the video on social media. âThe way itâs packaged in the store, itâs so real, and itâs so fresh, and you donât see chickens with their feathers and blood all over them, and their expression, with their tongue hanging out,â Dow said. Dow also went on to contact the LA County Health Department, who says that selling raccoons as food may indeed be perfectly legal, depending on the origins of the meat. The market has ceased selling raccoons, since the departmentâs visit, until it and be reviewed and officially approved. CBS2 contacted a number of local agencies, including the LA County District Attorneyâs office. However, none of them were immediately able to say whether selling raccoons as food was legal or not. Store employees say theyâve been selling raccoons for years, and never experienced any issues until now.
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| Posted by:Beavis |
| #13 Just to be a downer, raccoons are smart, evil and strong bastards. Cornered they are fearless, they can cli,b like a hawk and slash like a bobcat. They make poor but exciting pets, they are one human acts, hate children and can lay waste to a kitchen in nothing flat, they can open peanut butter jars, eat all your damn marshmallows and teach you Goldie hiw to play checkers while stealing his treat money. Tl;dr Be careful around racoons |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 19:23 |
| #12 I wouldn't taste good in a pot pie... |
| Posted by: BigEdLB 2015-02-12 15:41 |
| #11 Must be a drive-through grocer. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2015-02-12 14:20 |
| #10 a Chinese grocery store. The dread word racism is used. Ah, but Chinese are considered "white" by the SJWs. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-02-12 13:55 |
| #9 GM seriously, one if our old schooled maintenance guys has a freezer near full of them "toes on". Part of it us he hates to hunt and leave waste, the second is ther's a small niche market. He gives away into this market but accrues good will. It's like squirrel only ever so much more so and is very dependent on local conditions. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 12:05 |
| #8 I wonder if Granny Clampett gets her possum there. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-02-12 09:36 |
| #7 Typical SJW. "It's icky. I demand that it be removed! " |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-02-12 09:05 |
| #6 One of Instapundit's commenters pointed to this article about the shop in question -- a Chinese grocery store. The dread word racism is used. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-12 08:06 |
| #5 Local.store has a case full of "exotic meats" that features skinned goat heads. Next to the hams they have entire -- skin and all -- pig heads. I think what bothered the whiner the most was that it was recognizable as an animal. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2015-02-12 07:03 |
| #4 Baked whole is the right way, use the possum recipe but substitute a red-wine in lieu of white for the refduckshun. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-12 06:07 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-02-12 02:18 |
| #2 If you can't beat'm, join'm... Just a few of the "delectable" recipes for raccoon from cooks.com 1. CORN-FRIED RACCOON 2. RACCOON POT ROAST 3. RACCOON MEAT LOAF 4. BAKED STUFFED RACCOON WITH APPLES 5. RACCOON PIE |
| Posted by: Jumpin Gehosafat1830 2015-02-12 02:13 |
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| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-12 01:24 |