Talk to the Goat
Hmmmm... maybe if I was lost in the woods for a week and a skunk committed suicide so I wouldn't starve. Other than that I'd have to pass on the skunk roast I'm afraid. You never know where that skunk butt has been.
First? First on a Jay post? Wow.
I am with you on the skunk thing. I love the smell is not at its fullest potential. I have smelled that. I have TASTED that. That's right----tasted. When you are standing in the mist, you don't just smell it. It is like charcoal, like something burnt. It's worse than anything you can imagine. And it it happens in your house---that's right---in your house, then it gets into everything. Clothing, even the butter when you swing open the door to the fridge.
But light doses are pleasant, I think. Even still.
Got beat out for first by DB. Drat!
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I applaud your choice to keep the capabilities of your orifices to yourself. Orificial privacy is important to me as well.
High five, girlfriend.
You can be forgiven for thinking that Skunk smells ok (and I'll have to take your word for it as skunks are animalia non grata in Australia) if I can be forgiven for actually thinking that was a pretty funny post.
I'm with you on not seeing goat as a food option - petting zoos, hello! skunk... that's too close to rabbit (in my mind) and I had a pet rabbit. I make it a firm policy never to eat anything I've had as a companion animal (because eiwww!!!) which makes veganism my only dietary choice now.
By the way, the skunk recipe link is nowhere near as disturbing as the moose nose recipe below it.
Bring on the tofu!
btw even when you're sad your humor comes through in your writing, subtle, but it's there. Hang onto it - we all need our humor!
If this is not supposed to be a funny post, then I would love to read you when you are trying to be humorous. This one cracked me up. And...well...grossed me out at the same time. The whole eating goat thing bothers me, but I can deal with that. Hey..the people here eat gator met. It's really popular. So, to each his own. But skunk? Um, if it's all the same to you I'll pass.
(PS: No, she doesn't get it from my side of the family...it's all her dad's fault)
you won't see me eating any skunk, i have enough problems when i see rabbit in the major supermarkets at easter.
Having no sense of smell, skunks fall under the same category as kittens to me.
To be on the safe side I'd steer clear of mincemeat (or as north americans call it - hamburger?) and sausages - just in case the butcher didnt sell the skunk, and is trying to dispose of said skunk in a clandestine manner!
We dont have skunks here in NZ - so I just have to worry about the myriad of other mystery meats 
Right off, I better to differ iwth you. This post was pretty darn funny, causing me to laugh right out loud. And since I'm sitting here in the office by my self at the moment, no one looked at me strangely.
First up - Glade just has neve done much for me, just not strong enough. But I do warn you about buying 'Yankee Candle' fresheners to hang around your rearview mirror in your car. Those puppies will blast you out of the car.
Second - Having just avoided a skunk on the road on the way to work, I personally didn't find a darn thing about them appealing. You've got the 'gore' factor, plus I usually have to hold my breath for a half a mile or so in hopes of missing that scent you love so. And while we are talking about that, have you ever noticed that a road kill skunk doesn't smell where he's laying.....that scent is usually 1/4 mile down the road. It needs to be like a green gas or something to give you a bit of warning so you know you are coming up on it.
Okay, you got me. I'll admit that, while I wouldn't say I like the smell, when skunk scent wafts into the car cabin, I find it sweetly pungent. I don't make faces or gasp like some folks do.
But, when I'm near the source of a skunk spray, I find it very unpleasant. I would think being sprayed directly would change my mind forever about even the occasional diluted sniff while barreling down the road.
I tried goat meat at a local Mexican restaurant. Neither my wife nor I could eat it. I took three bites to give it a chance, but no, old nanny was not what I considered food.
Not funny? I disagree.
For someone who also has a low tolerance when it comes to unusual forms of meat, I am glad I don't live near your butcher!
Finding a skunk hanging in the window of the butcher shop must certainly be some kind of a sign. I think it means you need to find a new butcher.
Worry not, you're just strange enough to be funny :p
I cannot believe how much I have to say about this post. I'll try to be curt.
1. I thought of doing an experiment with my kids and feign that I liked the smell of skunk to see if I could get them to like it. I thought rarity and value were directly related.
People said I was nuts-nobody liked it.
Then Viola you post!
2. I took my kids for a country drive and met a lady at the grain elevator who raised goats-for eating. I didn't know that many people ate them.
3. Skunks as food-WOW. I loved all the facts you gave and never knew this. I know that the colonists and soldiers were amazed at how the indians survived and could be pursued without food supplies. It was learned to the westerner's amazement that they ate snakes and things they would never even consider as food.
4. Speaking of things as food. Have you ever heard of the "movement" to eat insects. 83 countries do. High protein, small space to raise, not a lot of money to raise. Now think of cows and the land, space, and money.
5. so much for being terse-sorry!
I don't find that "freaky" at all. I think it is cute that you have such positive relationships with the skunk family.
Wouldn't the butcher think having a dead skunk hanging in his window may deter customers? In Appalachia, I could understand. I'm sure skunk on a stick is commonplace. But not in a city. Very impressed with all your skunk knowledge, by the way.
Yeah, light dose from a distance, not bad, kinda nice. Up close and personal, so i've heard is another story...and you basically have to toss eveything.
And "Good Eating" is too proper, you gotta spell it "good eatin'" and thankfully, no, I'm not froma state where you can marry your' cousin, but I've met some scary people who have come close.
Oh la la, my goatey friend - I LOVE this post. I have never smelt a skunk. What does it smell like?
Actually, when I think about it, I've never even seen a skunk. Except Glenn Close, who once went through a very skunk-ey hair phase...
I would try skunk. I love goat. And rabbit is quite nice.
Maggots and worms? No thanks.
You know without trying things like skunk, we'd never know delicacies such as caviar which is overpriced nastiness.
I think bacon and steak is unstoppable. In fact if someone could make a bacon steak, I'd be in heaven, because I'd be dead from the cardiac arrest.
Ugh...I think I just lost my appetite. Smelling skunk is bad enough, but eating one...there are no words!
How would you prepare baked skunk? It must be something you'd find on the road afterall. It's not like you can buy that at your local grocer... or can you? I've lost touch with localocity since the birth of Walmart. >_>
Tim: brevity is for fools
Marsha: sorry, sweetie. Skunks get hit so often because they have very poor vision...anything more than 3m away is out of their scope, and by the time a car gets within that range, it's already dead.
And okay, yes, I have never been directly sprayed. It can cause irritation and blindness up close, or so I've read. Maybe that would change my mind in a hurry (then again, bathing in strange liquids, ie tomato soup, does have some appeal to me).
One of my elementary teachers used to hand out scratch and sniff stickers to reward us. She bought assorted scents and was troubled that each sticker sheet included a handful of skunk scented stickered. At first she would just throw them away, but after protests, she realized that a handful of us liked the smell. She would roll her eyes as she awarded us our musky prize...but we were happy.
Yikes. I wouldnt go in there either. I am not to fond of them myself. One night before we ever owned a car and we moved to WI we were riding our bikes to work and back and Hubby came across this thing in the middle of the street that looked like a cat. Well that cat looking thing was hissing at him and just starting to turn around to spray when hubby went past. Luckily hubby didnt get sprayed and I didnt have to deal with how to get the smell off of him.
That's OK--I like the smell of gasoline...
Baked Skunk? Is this out of the Roadkill Cookbook?
my husband and i love eau de skunk! it's a lovely smell.
HOLY CRAP! I'm not sure if I'm better off for knowing this. I can't wait to tell others.
I try not to eat animals that I am afraid of. I avoid skunk, possum, squirrel, rat, chicken, and snails. Everything else is edible.
Just a note: skunks actually make excellent pets, and you don't have to be a hillbilly to enjoy their company! You also don't have to de-scent them. A happy skunk will not spray it's owners, just don't let the neighbourhood dog scare it.
I don't think the concept is as popular elsewhere in Canada, but here in Nova Scotia, we have a provincially-run wildlife park. Animals that have been rehabilitated but cannot be released live at the park. It's essentially a zoo, only for NA wildlife. Long story short, they generally get skunk kittens every year (the mom has invariably been hit by a car, and that's what skunk babies are called), and they are the sweetest things! They love to be petted, and they can even make a sort of purring noise. Their fur is thick and wooly. Just adorable.
Yeah, I'm a fan. Sorry for the long post.
Jay, you'd probably be horrified by some of the animals I've ingested (Kangaroo or ostrich anyone?) and I have to confess that I don't mind goat, but I don't like lamb or mutton.
I also like the smell of skunk, but only in small doses, and I also like the smell of tar and asphalt. *shrug*
Oh, and my dad had a pet skunk as a boy. Evidently they're not good pets for the diurnally inclined . . . they spend a great deal of time wandering around knocking things over in the night.
Dear, you're always funny. Not in a "ha-ha" comedic kind of way, but in a dry witty sort of way that I much prefer. And don't sell this post short, as I found much humor in it.
All that being said, I agree that skunk does not equal food. It' is a little unusual that you would actually like the smell of skunk, but somehow does not surprise me.
And I've eaten goat (baby goat actually, much more tender). It tastes much like lamb and is very good baked in the oven with potatoes. I highly recommend.
I don't know about eating kangaroo, but I have heard of ostrich and it doesn't gross me out. In fact, I figure I might even be induced to TRY goat...but skunk?
K - the link is actually from a boyscout troop, I think...and I pray it's a gag.
Kat - I like that too! When I say I like skunk people just look at me weird, but if I say I like gasoline, they think I'm suicidal.
First, I laughed several times while reading this post, so I THINK you're funny. Second, being a vegetarian, all this skunk/goat meat talk is a bit horrifying. Although I did like the Skunk 101 info!
So educational today Jamie. If I ever go on Jeopardy and there is a category about skunks I will rock it thanks to you (don't worry I'll give you props) If I were a betting person, I would bet skunk tastes like chicken, but really, I don't want to know. And honestly, I prefer to just stick to eating like chicken because it SHOULD taste like chicken.
re: diurnal skunks. Thanks for the further info. The wildlife park caretaker didn't mention that bit. Although, given my cat's crazy nighttime activities (epitomized to a T/tee by RobynR when she says, "they spend a great deal of time wandering around knocking things over in the night"), I think I could tolerate it. Also, they eat grubs in the lawn, and although they tear it up, I like to consider it "aerating".
I'm a skunk-smell lover, too. Don't know what it is, maybe I worked in a Heineken beer factory in a previous life.
I once had a co-worker from Indonesia that swore black dogs tasted better than white. I asked her why that was, but she couldn't give me a definitive answer. Matter of taste preference, I guess. I don't think I'd ever know if I was eating a black cow or a white cow. And what about the spotty ones? Different areas taste better?
That was funny and scary at the same time. I am from the deep South (Alabama) and granted we are known to cook a lot of strange vittles but Skunk is not one of them. I have seen pig brains and scrambled eggs (note only seen it not eaten it), I have eaten Goat Stew and it was yummy, it tasted like brunswick stew. I have even heard of eating opossum but NEVER have we eaten Skunk. I can see how you would fear the missing Skunk in the window.
Can I come over and slap you now? One of your bests posts ever. That's why, even though I have a list of links, there are only 2 or 3 I look forward to.
Anywho, enough ass kissing.
I'm traveling to Bolivia in July and I'll be looking to have one of their famous dishes.
Roasted guinea pig.
Ok, I was so fascinated by this post that I really needed to come back and look at the comments after mine. There is, as they say, too much of a good thing. I do find it interesting that there are some who do not mind the smell of a skunk...I am thankful that most do not want to eat it.
I still do not want to try goat. Or ostrich. Kangaroo, nada. As far as the roasted guinea pig? I'm not even going there, and it is my greatest hope that no one even tells my youngest about this.
And Jay, yes, I blame him. I certainly would NEVER say ANYTHING like that! 
(WHAT?)
Although I eat and like almost every meat (even goat if it is well prepared), but skunk?? I don't think I could... Ever!
Roasted guinea pig!!!!
Actually, Avery, I just finished a book, and the people of hte south pacific felt that yes, the darker the dog, the better the taste.
Remember..I picked the catagories based on ME...you think this had something to do with you?
I wanted to vote for the funniest thing I read and it's you and Dad Gone Mad..Swimming, not so funny but I did like the view of them watching you not drown..I chuckled...old people at the store, funny. Stalker..the way you told it was a big humourous. Skunk smells and the anal shit..funny...and FREAKY..see where I'm going with this. Your pictures are great when you share them and since you aren't a "mommy blogger" your blogs are about stuff. So get over youself, this is about my reading preference. OK, enough snark for the day, I had to knock you off your serious perch.
goat is actually really good, i swear! much leaner than cow, which i find nice.
Jay:
Ever noticed how it has an almost 'smokey' essense to it? Maybe it's that 'smokey-just-before-hitting-that-BURN-stage'
Ha, jay, ask an african how to cook it and be my guest for a day.
I'm pretty basic when it comes to food meat. Chicken, cow and occasionally bacon to add flavor. Goat? No thanks. Skunk? isn't it part of the cat family? I'm pretty sure this is where tofurkey is happily introduced!
Oh Jeez, your going to make me cry. We had a pet skunk at a friends house when I was younger. The mother was killed on the road.
It only smells if you scare it into releasing it's scent sac. And it only sprayed twice, both times at the dog, but the dog deserved it because he was getting carried away and the skunk didn't want to play anymore.
-P
That is beyond disturbing. Seriously.
*Does Ernest's "ewww" impression*
I've eaten a lot of bizarre things:
gator
snake
frog legs
kangaroo
ostrich
But I will NEVER eat skunk. I don't care if it's the only thing on the menu and I'm starving. Bleh.
I don't see what the big deal is. I've eaten small children, and they don't smell much better than a skunk.
Dang! we Southerners will fry or bar-b-que most anything but I have to draw the line at skunk 
I am shy to talk to you, you have so many admirers my Queen, would you mind being tag from me?
mmmmmm, I love curried goat. Especially after smoking some skunk.
Loved the Uncle Roger bit. I think every family has an Uncle Roger in it. Mine were usually distant aunts who smelled of onions and garlic.
Alright, so does it make me lame if the thought of having skunks running around your backyard sounds cool?
(Yes, you can throw things at me now. Am just a weird Australian.)
You're too funny! don't think I'll try skunk--but they'd probably taste like raccoon
Poor pepe, we hardly knew ya.
I think that eating pigs is probably the most digusting human habit. Pigs are more intelligent than dogs!
Of course, some people eat dogs as well.
I have spent some time with pigs.
Pigs are not smart.
skunk goulash anyone? it's hot and spicey...
gag..
Baked skunk!? Can't do it ... nope, you can't make me.
Junebugg...you are giving us Southerners a bad name. There are many things besides skunk that we do NOT BBQ. Fido, the dog next door, is one of them.
I think I may be the only one in the world whose never smelled skunk. Or if I did I didn't know it. How can this be? Should I feel deprived?
Ewww.
Oh cut it out, this is a fucking riot and you know it. I'm not surprised that you and others like the smell. It happens. You may have smelled it as an infant and it was better than something else you found REALLY obnoxious. So your neurons just fire that way. Eating it though is quite a stretch, I must agree. Study your neighbors carefully.
That truly is disgusting. I can't fathom eating skunk unless it was the last possible thing on earth to eat or something.
By the way, my mother had a pet skunk when she was a kid...and I assure you that she's no red neck! Just a semi eccentric animal lover. The skunks name was Victoria.
I think that Sweet Jay's should have a new entry. You figure, skunk goes in the skillet, onions or leeks maybe, potatoes too, and something a little spicy to mask the gaminess (I think Tp. 1965 got paprika right), put the whole thing in 350 oven...
No? I wouldn't either.
lets see...
-no taking leftovers from neighbors
-this was kind of humorous
-i still shiver at the scene in Mike and Me where the woman skins a rabbit. I cant imagine a skinned skunk
I just don't even know what to say to this one. That's hideous!
I thought you said this wasn't gonna be funny! I laughed a little. You haven't lost it yet - it's just hiding a little.
Sweetie, you are still funny.
Just because you are down the bottom of a well doesn't mean the sun isn't shining above. You have a sense of humour like mine; very dry.. but yours is more articulate.
I was wondering about Skunk Kabobs. Or Rotisserie Skunk. Would you have to through the spit out after reaming it up Pepe's rectum?
An unrelateed question: why did a skunk with a French accent have Mexican name? Pierre le Peu... that's French. Pepe... he's a little Mexican boy who needs a school and fresh water on one of those adopt a child commercials. I hear he's making $200/half hour per appearance.
Wait a sec... maybe I was a bit hasty. There could be a market in skunk jerky. It comes in 12 noxious flavors.
DB...there is so many way that idea is just wrong. I'll never be able to look at beef jerky again.....
Next thing you know, they'll be serving Skunk burgers at McDonalds (do you want fries with that).
Mmmmmmmmm...Skuuuuunk!!!
Throw in some of that cheap rye and I do believe your Uncle Roger and I can come to a meeting of the minds.
the world would be a better place if there were more pepe le pues around.
As far as I know I've never eaten skunk. There was however, this one time when I was in China, I was served something I could not identify and my Mandarin was not up to the task of securing me a confirmation. In order to be polite and avoid being the ugly American, I ate it. So who knows.
Maybe not funny, but definitely witty.
A friend of mine from grade and high school had a skunk when he was really young. They had the stink sack removed.
And I hear you about the smell of skunks, however, I will hazard to say that you haven't had a pet sprayed by one? Because if I'm driving down the highway and there is the essence of skunk, I don't mind it at all. If, however, my dog gets hit with some of this spray, I'm less happy. Concentrated the smell is much worse. My dog was partially sprayed twice. He didn't get much, not enough to do the whole bathing in tomato juice nonsense, but enough that he smelled bad for a day, his fur smelled for about a week (like if you petted him you would have ode de skunk on your hands), and then it was basically done.
I should mention that this friend was in Ontario. Brampton, specifically.
Oh, and something else I forgot. I would definitely eat skunk. I have tried many different types of game, including moose, deer, rabbit, bear. But the strangest thing would've been beaver. I have a friend from northern Michigan whose family doesn't buy meat, they hunt it. So she brought some beaver with her to the university we went to, and I tried it. Quite good actually. And, yes, I know there is a joke in there somewhere.
My stepmom had a pet skunk. Really, but with the scent sac removed. Anyway, the smell isn't so bad, unless it is really really fresh, and then it will make you want to throw-up, like ipecac.
I do love reading your stuff... You are a very gifted and talented writer...I know my wife made the comment on her blog that I compared you to James Herriot. I hope you take it as a compliment because I think he was one of the most descriptive writers I have ever read. He could make you feel the biting cold of a Yorkshire winter at 3am as he lay in a farmer's field delivering a calf or lamb. And he could make you smell the heather growing in the spring. YOU brighten my day
My german grandmother speaks no French, but when my mother was growing up in Montreal, their butcher was French. My grandmother often ordered and prepared "cheval" until she found out that it was horse meat.
go with the goat jay. I've tasted it. it was tasty.
Skunks are actually very cute! But so is Johnny Depp and I wouldn't eat...... uh, wait......
Er, skunks are cute but I wouldn't eat one?
That brings a whole new meaning to the old cliche, "I'm so hunrgy I could eat the ass end out of a skunk!"
I've been looking for some "Skunk Recipes" online.
I like this one the best!
"Carefully clean and prepare fat skunk. Soak in salt water for 3 days. Select a flat board of green oak, less than 1 inch thick. Carefully stretch skunk on board and nail down legs. Place skunk on board in preheated oven at 375 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. After cooking time is up, take skunk and board out of oven. Carefully take nails out of board. Cautiously take the skunk off the board and then eat the board."
Ha ha, very funny post! We ate different sorts of game when I was a child, but never skunk. We had raccoon, deer, rabbit, game birds, etc. most not that great. I used to think school food was the best thing ever! And hamburger from the store (instead of venison).
This post is skunky.
Long ago, I bought a Road Kill Cookbook for an ex-boyfriend who didn't respect my vegetarianism.
I'm sure there was a recipe for seared skunk, as well as baked snake, boiled possum, roasted raccoon, and of course, blackbird pie.
I think the odor of skunk spray is fairly pleasant from afar, like burning rubber, but close up, overpowering.
My cat got sprayed by a skunk the other day.. and she didn't enjoy the bath I gave her in skunk off either.. poor cat. and btw.. *I didn't feel like sauteing my cat for supper*
Feta cheese is digusting.
Nope. Still funny. If only we all could have such an understanding relationship with our furrier, smellier, brethren. Good for you, Jamie.
You are definitely still funny, Jamie. ^_^
This is the extent of my skunk lore:
MuNKi's cousin was one of those hicks that "deskunked" skunks and sold them as pets. Fortunately for us, he lived in another state.
When my sis lived with the Hocak nation (as a linguist helping with language preservation) I think she ate skunk. She's a vegetarian now, having, I believe, eaten her fill of odd kinds of meat. But she told me about one of their songs that goes something like "Little skunk, you smell so sweet. . .With your necklace of garlic and onions, roasting over the fire."
Perhaps you can find an atomiser full of skunk scent and use it to keep all the Titos at bay.
Oh wow!! I used to work with a young man from China who's been in the states awhile and still proudly announces that his country is known for their ability to turn everything and anything into an edible meal...maybe we're just too picky on this contentant....maybe
I wonder about the first person who was game to try eating one. "It doesnt smell too good. I wonder what it tastes like?".
Same deal with blue cheese.
And you said this wasn't a funny post. Hah!
Being a vegetarian, I don't have to worry much about potential food spraying me (unless you count grapefruit).
Like most people, I never enjoyed the smell of skunk. I always found that childhood game with the scratch and sniff skunk to be a bit odd. Do you know the one I'm talking about? Hook, Line and Stinker maybe? Why torture children with nasty smells? And to think, we actually WANTED to play that game more than once.
If this isn't your "funny", we're all in trouble. Douse the skunk in a martini and flame-broil. If it's good, call me.
I can't help but think that if my anal glands were removed, the world would be a better place in at least some small way.
What the hell' wrong with you?
Skunks are NASTY. I had one attack a friend's house I was staying at and the smell simply would not go away. Despite every effort under the sun!
Blech.
I thought of you this weekened, we were driving through Illinois and Indiana and smelled that fresh skunk smell a couple of times...ahhhhh
Don't think I'd ever want to try skunk...
Not funny? Are you kidding me?
baked stink badger....ha ha ha ha.
hi, i'm 12.
....or maybe you'll come across a skunk who is avenging the deaths of all those poor ones eaten.
I think I might not eat dinner after this post.
That was very interesting and I even laughed a little.
You don't have to be funny to be interesting, right?
Skunk smells horrbile! Me and my sis were driving to work and we saw a roadkill skunk on the side of the road (it wasnt even flat yet) and being the animal lovers we are we went out there and dragged it off the road. When we got back into the car all i smelled was skunk. My eyes watering gasping for fresh air i was holding my nose hoping the skunk would go away
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