Comments on: You Sure That’s a “J” and Not a “C”?

By: dlgarfinkle

dlgarfinkle — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:43:08 +0000

Oh, phew! I found a squirrel near a dump in NJ, but I had the good sense to take it away from the dump before eating it, so I should be safe.

By: thunderchikin

thunderchikin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:54:11 +0000

You gotta be *really* hungry to eat a squirrel.

By: keep2dacode

keep2dacode — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:49:05 +0000

oh my!

i thought it was only the southerners who ate squirrel and I still find that quite disturbing.

When my family moved to Kentucky, some guy asked us if we wanted “some ‘a what i’s huntin” and held up a couple of dead creatures. Yeah, they turned out to be squirrels. Scary.

It was quite an experience for my parents, who were “house hunting” and thought it may be charming to move into the country (we’d moved from Chicago).

My parents decided not to buy a house way out in the boonies!

By: thunderchikin

thunderchikin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:01:45 +0000

Florida.

Seriously, I just remember coconuts. Imagining a squirrel hauling on of those monnsters off to its nest makes me smile.

By: alixwrites

alixwrites — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:54:30 +0000

Hollywood, California or Florida? Here, there is plenty a squirrel could eat in the trees … including but not limited to perfectly good fruit that *people* want to eat.

By: thunderchikin

thunderchikin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:01:06 +0000

I wonder if that’s an adaptive behavior or an attempt to outrun the fireants.

I lived in Hollywood as a preschooler. I don’t remember anything in a tree that a squirrel could eat.

By: alixwrites

alixwrites — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:06:02 +0000

Here in Miami, the squirrels roam free. Who’d want to eat them? Miami squirrels are half the size of northern squirrels. Compared to Miami squirrels, I’m sure Jersey squirrels look right juicy! However, the squirrels in my neighborhood have taken up this annoying hobby of coming down from the trees and running across roads, daring cars to hit them. I have told my daughter she needs too ask her science teacher about what I term the “earthbound squirrel phenomenon,” but I guess she thinks I’m kidding.

By: thunderchikin

thunderchikin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:38:58 +0000

The Jersey squirrels are the ones that emit a phosphorous glow, right?

By: coebooth

coebooth — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:33:00 +0000

When I saw this on the news this afternoon, I almost gagged. It’s gross enough to eat a squirrel, but c’mon, a NEW JERSEY squirrel. For the love of God! Who could possibly be that freakin’ hungry?!?