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This lady I used to made a good coon has

I’ve eaten it many, many times. My grandma would cook/bake it pretty often. I never really cared for it, but most of my family loved it. I don’t know exactly how she seasoned it (probably just salt and pepper) - but, she slow cooked it in the oven in an old roasting pan with a lid.

Usually served with mashed potatoes, pinto beans, and pan cornbread.

I've had it. Aunt would bake it and sweet potatoes usually. Greasy. The sweet potatoes were good...

Tried it and possum at a wild game banquet a few years ago. It was edible... but compared to the possum, it should be considered a delicacy.

I think I would eat Vienna sausages before I would eat a garbage coon.

I think this post is misplaced!! There is already a thread started in the Sports thread about Jimbo Fishers wife’s preferences...

Damn you 3toe! I knew somebody was gonna post that nasty chit!

You guys just don't have Granny's recipe! Jethro loved it! Oh I bet a lot here don't know Jethro or Granny> Oh Elly Mea in those tight jeans! No respiratory problems either.

I've had it before. The lady cooked it in a crock pot overnight and then shredded the meat, tossed it in BBQ sauce and put it in a pan on the smoker. It wasn't too bad. But I was probably knee deep in the cooler when I ate it too so my review might be null and void.

Had a black bus driver back in the early 80s stop the school bus and had a couple of big boys kill a possum crossing the road.Damedest thing I ever seen.Saying that it never crossed my mind to try coon either. But my buddy said it was great but it wasn’t a ring tail

When I was a kid my cousin killed one and ask our granny to cook it. She did. Granny was a good cook and could make rice cakes fittin to eat. She baked it in some cajun spices I remember because it dang sure smelled good. Granddaddy got home and wanted to know what smelled so good. Granny told him me and Boo shot a coon and she had cooked it. The look on his face said it all. So he took the baked coon out of the oven and went outside. Sat it on the ground and called up the dogs. The dogs came runnin and when they got to the coon they started sniffin it but none of the three dogs licked it or took a bite. My granddaddy then looked at my granny and said " if the dogs won't eat it I'm damn sure ain't!" He gave it to my uncle to use in crab traps.

I used to sell a lot of it in mobile. Made more than the fur was worth and easier to process. I would cut off the meat and make jerky sometimes and it didn't taste any different than deer or any other jerky. Not a lot of meat on one except the hams though. Made into barbecue in the crock pot it's not bad either but not my favorite, but I don't really like any meat that way. You have to get the glands out or its awful. The paw on thing is true too. I had a guy a couple years ago that was reselling what I sold him and could sell all I could catch. You could say he was more in with the folks that eat it than I was.

Damn crows won’t even eat a run over coon. What does that tell you.

Probably the most greasy stuff I've ever tried to eat.

Ill pass

I'm pretty sure I've eaten it before at the deer camphouse for lunch in a stew. It was a conglomeration of whatever meat them rednecks we hunted with threw in the pot, so no telling.

I've eaten several. I've barbequed them and also made a hash of them. The meat is really dark. I would say it's edible, but I'm gonna have to be pretty hungry to eat another one. I used to sell the meat from all the coons and possums I trapped back in the 70s. They were easy to sell.

I always thought the meat off a bobcat looked good; it appeared to be a much whiter meat than a coon. Never had the nerve to try it.

My Grandaddy used sell them too, they would not get bought if you did not leave a foot on them..

I'd love to try raccoon. Just haven't yet.

Possum, I won't eat. Those nasty bastages eat ticks and crawl into the carcass of dead animals to eat bloated gassy organs. Nope, nada, never.

Coon meat is greasy but makes a good hash. I've had it cooked with sweet potatoes several times, cooked by several different people and have never cared for it cooked that way. It's also decent grilled.

Possum is not as greasy as coon or as dark. I've only eaten it grilled then deboned and smothered in BBQ sauce.

I sale 50+ coons a year from my trapping. $10 apiece just as fast as I can catch them. Could probably sale 300 if I had time to catch them. Always leave one foot on.