Anyone have a recipe for gopher?
A rabbit control technique suggested in Essence, the University of Victoria environment studies students' newsletter, has stirred controversy. One student says he eats one UVic rabbit per month, killing it and preparing it himself. He says it's a good, environment friendly way to control the rabbits, which have become a pest on campus.
I grew up in southwest Manitoba, and I shot a lot of gophers over the years. If only we would have also skinned and eaten those gophers, imagine the money we could have saved on food costs? I've never eaten gopher, but I have eaten rabbit. It's good. Gopher might be good, too. Maybe we should eat more of our pests. You're heard of dandelion salad. Add a little grilled gopher on top, and we've created a Prairie delicacy.
I will edit a lot of articles about crop pest control this spring -- just like every spring -- and it provided a little comic relief to read this story. Click here to read the Victoria Times-Colonist article for yourself. Thanks to my father-in-law for forwarding it to me.
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Jay,
My Grandma, born in 1913, was so poor when she was a kid that her family ate gophers. There were 14 mouths to feed, so I guess her dad thought this was a cheap way to provide his kids with protein. She only talked about this a handful of times and I remember her saying once, "The little striped gophers were a lot better than those big buggers".
Eating gophers didn't hurt her health. She's still living in a nursing home. She was in great shape until 2004 but then her hearing and eyesight started to go and it's been down hill ever since. Cory.