<p>In our area, we are entering Muskrat season. Local restuarants will be serving it several ways and lines will form in anticipation of the dish. We also have scrapple on the breakfast menus. </p>
<p>I was wondering what regional foods others have. Have been to different areas of the United States and seen things on menus that amaze me. What’s served in your area that might make an outsider say “they eat what??!!”</p>
<p>In my neck of the woods, this oddity might pop up on the menus of some fancy restaurants:</p>
<p>[Geoduck</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweduc]Geoduck”>Geoduck - Wikipedia)</p>
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<p>sistersunnie, i thought you were going to ask how to get rid of them. I guess you answered that question too. What part of the country do you muskrat eaters hail from?</p>
<p>In North Carolina there is a sausage-like dish called “Livermush” that apparently is made from all (and I mean ALL) parts of a pig that are ground up. I haven’t tried it yet.</p>
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<p>My favorite. :)</p>
<p>Scapple here too, but only at really home-town style restaurants.</p>
<p>I understand that Muskrat is to be had seasonally in Baltimore, so maybe the kid will get to try it now that she’s studying there.</p>
<p>This is just gross. You people are freaks.</p>
<p>My dog recently encountered a muskrat and was kind enough to bring its bloody, mangled corpse right to my feet.</p>
<p>Next time I should ask him to be more delicate so we can cook it.</p>
<p>Brunswick stew made with squirrel can be had in the Carolinas.</p>
<p>Durgin-Park and a few other places around Boston sell Indian Pudding. It’s molasses and cornmeal cooked with butter. Let’s say the traditional version is an acquired taste.</p>
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<p>zoosermom, my H and Ds all agree with you when it comes to my liking for scrapple. 
The thing is that, growing up in south Jersey, not liking scrapple would be akin to not liking cheesesteaks, hoagies, or TastyKakes! </p>
<p>Never heard of eating muskrat. I did have a muskrat coat when I was younger, though!</p>
<p>All I can think of is that classic song by the Captain & Tennille, “Muskrat Love.” Don’t believe I could eat “muskrat suzie or muskrat sam”!</p>
<p>I was astonished by the fried pickles I saw on menus in Tennessee and Kentucky.</p>
<p>Fried pickles are DELICIOUS here in Ohio - many non-pickle fans love them!</p>
<p>Well theres muskrat in gravy, spicy bbqed muskrat, and fried muskrat…I dont eat it but lots of others do. I know you can get it on the Eastern shores of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. </p>
<p>Now scrapple I eat! Fried nice and brown on sticky white bread, oh yum… but I sure wouldnt touch that geoduck! Freaks? really zooser :)</p>
<p>I LOVE fried pickles. Eat them every chance I get. Right here in Good 'Ole Times Square!</p>
<p>Good eats - squirrel, groundhog, swan, whitefish (in winter)</p>
<p>Not unless you are starving - Possum, armadillo, American Shad</p>
<p>BB- I love geoducks</p>
<p>EDIT: Adding rattlesnake and alligator - both very good.</p>
<p>Tried gator at a Native American restaurant in Florida. It was just ok, but would try it again. Also ate turtle, which I did not like. I spent about a month in China a number of years ago. I stopped asking my guide what I was eating when he responded, “we Chinese eat anything that moves”. For me, the odor is what determines if I will try something.</p>
<p>Gator nuggets; taste like chicken :-0</p>
<p>Muskrat was/is a big restaurant item in the downriver suburbs of Detroit. I shoot ducks on Walpole Island at the north end of Lake St. Clair with the native canadian guides and they used to hunt muskrat for fur until the market price went down the drain.</p>
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<p>My local grocery (Boston area) sells cans of it. </p>
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<p>When my college friends (all cityfolk) came to visit me, I took them out for brains and eggs.</p>
<p>Why, Why, WHY am I looking at this thread when it makes me gag?</p>