Ready for squirrel soup?

The Great Depression of 1929 may be back upon us and the last depression may hold valueable lessons to us on how to survive. Sort of like the tricks to survival I used to post about being homeless. The following description is not for the faint of heart, but nonetheless, may become a reality and a way of life for most Americans.

Honey is it soup yet? Hope you brought your appetite

"She remembered vividly the barrels of flour, the bolts of cloth and the hunger in the faces of people as they begged for store credit," LeBlanc said. "The store must have been at least marginally successful, because my grandmother was able to purchase, a piece at a time, a complete six-person setting of Gorham Chantilly silverware for her trousseau, linens and even a Lane cedar chest to house her treasures."

The couple would catch wild hogs, feed them corn for a year and eat them once the wild taste was out of the scavenging animals. They also took advantage of available squirrel meat, a common food in the South at that time.

"It was a uniquely disgusting thing ... to see my grandfather take a stewed, skinned squirrel's head, smack the skull's dome with a heavy silver tablespoon, and dine on the brains," LeBlanc said.

Source: cnn.com via master_jim2008

Yumm....NOT

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