There is a hall on Oak street in Wyandotte that advertises muskrat dinners. I believe it is a Knights of Columbus. St Stanislaus in Wyandotte has them also.
There is a hall on Oak street in Wyandotte that advertises muskrat dinners. I believe it is a Knights of Columbus. St Stanislaus in Wyandotte has them also.
Good to see people showing some muskrat love.
Couldn't resist ...
uggg i remember when i was younger my dad dragged me downriver somewhere to eat this delicacy ...and i use that term loosely. I was thoroughly freaked out by the whole thing. My dad always had a thing for weird meats..i blame it on growing up in Houghton Lake in the 40's and 50's
Makes sense about the French settlers eating muscrat. Muscrat was trapped for their fur and I am sure with the lack of supermarkets and shrink-wrapped meat counters, little went to waste.
Trapping muscrat and mink for their furs was a way for kids to make some money in the outstate Michigan small town of my youth but nobody ate them. I remember acquiring a couple of traps, chopping holes in the ice and never catching anything while my friend Jerry caught everything [BTW he was catholic]. I gave up and was glad I never caught any. It was a painful and cruel slow death for the creatures. In the case of the more valuable mink, one had to check the traps regularly because they would escape by chewing through their trapped leg.
I've never seen it spelled with a "c", but I have eaten it a few times. It's a little gamey, more like lamb than duck. It's normally baked with creamed corn.....lot's of little bones, and it is cooked basically whole, like a chicken. There used to be several restaurants who served it in Monroe, but the last one left may be a restaurant called "Trappers", it is on S. Monroe St. or South Dixie Hwy....
Dom Polski Bar has muscrat dinners every Friday.
[[734) 281-9419
1519 Oak St, Wyandotte, MI 48192
I had a taste at the Ida-Maybee Sportsman Club down in Monroe County a few years back. It was very popular.
Hey...I resemble that remark! *hug*uggg i remember when i was younger my dad dragged me downriver somewhere to eat this delicacy ...and i use that term loosely. I was thoroughly freaked out by the whole thing. My dad always had a thing for weird meats..i blame it on growing up in Houghton Lake in the 40's and 50's
I've never eaten muskrat, but lots of folks like it. Many like to hunt and trap. And like true hunters and trappers, they eat what they kill. Not my style, but God bless them.
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