Do you know the badass who eats squirrel meat ?

Squirrels, in my business, are pests.

They cause a lot of mischief in our garden, nibbling at this and the other, or digging up some beets, gnawing off some shoots, and frustrating our labor.
Further, and even more vexing, is their persistent nesting in OUR ROOF. We have an old house, and this roof has seen way better days. The squirrels find their way in every winter, and cause a frackass, running in the crawl spaces above the living room and kitchen, and occasionally, we have heard them between walls.
Abeg.
Baba Achieng set traps. Drowned a few in the Detroit River, then decided, we need not buy any more meat with the high population of members in our immediate vicinity.
Abeg.
Eyes rolled but he persisted, arguing that we needn't be pretentious about slaughtering them, yet we do the same to all the other animals we eat.
Sure enough, He spent almost a whole afternoon skinning that unlucky muther and the darn ass thing was plopped into a bowl, my bowl, and it was suggested that I was to continue.
"Here's a recipe," he passed his phone to me.
Ok.
Trust, it was from louisiana, where a few weeks prior, when I was in New Orleans, somebody driving by called at us asking us whether we knew the guy who sells possum. Lawd.
I just doused the squirrel in vinegar.
(To disinfect it)
Plenty of sea salt.
(To disinfect it further)
And Baba sprinkled Cayenne.
Two days of marinating in the fridge, I volunteered to throw it in the oven, before it went bad.
Clobbered off its tail and head.
I dont know why those were still attached to this day.
Flung open the oven door, and threw that carcass on a baking sheet.

Maybe 2 hours later,
After I was sure that it was falling off the bone,
And all vermin germsies gone,
Pulled it out,
Chopped off some meat and munched.

Aisay, It wasnt all that good, but more likely coz of the excessive vinegaration than the squirell's own doing.
I couldn't dig in good coz it was all just yucky thinking of squirrel...

The internet said squirrel meat is pretty tasty when i checked.
Tasted more like liver. Liver isn't bad, to me, but I wasn't going to kill no squirrel for such a lean carcass that tasted like liver.

Baba got cold feet too.

Ate some. Threw out most of the leftovers.

We agreed we will wait till summer, bbq season, when so much meat is on the grill, across the street at his mums, and maybe throw one in at the end, and see what everyone thinks.

There too many of them here anyway.

"no natural predators" baba says, "reducing their population (by any means necessary) is..." as lion in Tinga Tinga tales says, "nature's way"