Let's file it under culinary variety

[alfreda89]

We also have a problem -- here's Britain's solution.

. . . the “Save Our Squirrels” campaign begun in 2006 to rescue Britain’s red squirrels by piquing the nation’s appetite for their marauding North American cousins. With a rallying motto of “Save a red, eat a gray!” the campaign created a market for culled squirrel meat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07squirrel.html?em

Look fast, it's the NYT --

Comments

[litch.livejournal.com]

my father had firm opinions of the eating value of various squirrels and considered grey squrrels decidedly inferior to red squirrels