• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    Up through WWI, there was an official war on squirrels, which ran for the previous 400 years. There were often bounties on squirrels in many places.

    The iconic cookbook The Joy of Cooking included directions to skin a squirrel, with recipes, until just a few decades ago.