This disease is nothing to laugh about. But still ...

[Chesapeake]

Man Dies After Eating Squirrel Brains

[drlj]

Holy crap. A lot of Hoosiers won’t sleep well tonight.

[t-bob]

This should be a Darwin tale. 🤣 Of Course I haven’t done The Snopes yet.

[t-bob]

Dan Brown ate many squirrels. Is he still alive?

[Village Idiot]

I've heard about this. Sometime in the 90s my folks, both veterinarians, were warning our relatives in Missouri so stop eating squirrel brains because they might get mad cow disease. I don't know if they listened or not, but they're still around.

[drlj]

Why would someone have to be warned not to eat squirrel brains? You would think that not eating squirrel brains would sort of be a given.

There is a restaurant in Southern IN that I have been told serves deep fried cow brain sandwiches. I can’t imagine a more gruesome and unappetizing entree.
At least I couldn’t until squirrel brains were mentioned.

[Village Idiot]

My maternal grandfather was a nuclear engineer, but stuck to his Nebraska farm roots and would eat his scrambled eggs mixed with cow brains. My guess is that there were a lot of leftovers from those who grew up in the Great Depression with nothing, that kind of stuff was comfort food; that kind of stuff reminds them of mom's home cooking from a time when there wasn't much to cook. I guess. I don't know.

[drlj]

Well, they say you are what you eat.

[coachdoc]

Squirrel brains is way up on the list of yuk. But Rocky Mountain Oysters tops it.

[sidheguitarmichael]

Folks, the takeaway here is fairly straight forward: don’t eat ANY brains—squirrel, cow, monkey, antifa, whathaveyou—and you’ll probably dodge the prion bullet.

I shit thou not: I had a student that died from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Fucking *horrible* way to go. I have a score for Villa-lobos’ prelude #1 that has his old phone number wtitten atop it. Every time I pull those preludes out, I’m reminded of him, and how he exited stage left, all over again.

[millring]

It's like puffer fish. It has to be prepared properly or it's poisonous.

[Deleted]

Former Jr High student and now custodian, Ricky Sharp, was an avid hunter. Ha asked me if I had ever tried squirrel brains. I told him no and never.

[AlanC]

I thought I heard that eating ANY organs was a little chancy.

[aquaduct]

Oct 18, 2018 23:26:17 GMT -5 sidheguitarmichael said:

Folks, the takeaway here is fairly straight forward: don’t eat ANY brains—squirrel, cow, monkey, antifa, whathaveyou—and you’ll probably dodge the prion bullet.

I once tried to eat antifa brains.

Couldn't find any.

Basic take-away here is stick to the 4 basic food groups- italian, mexican, burgers, and alcohol.

[james]

I customarily direct my ire and ridicule more at fascists than anti-fascists.

[aquaduct]

Oct 19, 2018 8:41:06 GMT -5 james said:

I customarily direct my ire and ridicule more at fascists than anti-fascists.

Probably could have guessed that.

I'm more broad-based. I direct my ire toward whoever is beating up innocent people at that moment.

[majorminor]

I had one bite of moose liver once.

[Deleted]

At least squirrels have brains and can't vote one way or another.

[millring]

Oct 19, 2018 8:41:06 GMT -5 james said:

I customarily direct my ire and ridicule more at fascists than anti-fascists.

Then you truly don't get the irony of cheering antifa.

[paleo]

Had lunch one day, back in June of 1976, at Doshantappeh Air Base in Tshran, Iran.the Iranians refused to tell me what we were eating. Probably far worse than squirrels brains.