Dizzy Dee

I love squirrels; they’re cute and fluffy – even though I know they are rodents, I still find them adorable.Now, enough cuteness! I was reading a magazine at the hairdresser last week – yes, I am embarrassed to admit, it was the You magazine, which I never read except when I am at the hairdresser or doctor – Anyway – Beth Ditto apparently used to eat squirrels when she was a child. The magazine went on explaining (quite elaborately) how she and her friends used to skin the squirrels and then have a squirrel barbecue.

Now, British chef, Ed Chester went one step further, and added the cute fluffy rodents to the restaurant menu where he works. Squirrel kebab can now be found on the list of scrumptious dishes at this restaurant in Otterton Mill, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon (UK).

Ed Chester reckons squirrel meat is delicious and is also selling pates and fricassees made from the rodents, “I am never going to put anything horrible on the menu. Squirrel is great meat. It is genuinely good and this is not a gimmick.”

I can’t say that it sounds very appealing, and I am just thankful that I don’t have to give this a try. And I thank goodness I didn’t have friends like Beth Ditto when I was a child!

Tags: beth-ditto, eating-squirrels, Recipe, squirrel-meat, weird-food

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