Back in 1986-7-8 when I was trapping full time, and Hunting with my hounds, I knew a Chinese dude who owned a resturant. {Guess where this is going} He was always coming over and visiting, would sit down at the table, share his hot tea, with all the green leaves in it. Old Jimmy was cool, I learned a little Chinese! "Nee how maa!" Shea Shea wa hung how!" we got to talking about the trail and trapline, and Tigers are the big thing among Chinese cooks, but they ate them all up, years ago. At his request I took him a grinner, I listened till the Mexican cooks in the back opened the sack, they all burst out laughing, the whole kitchen! Jimmy came back and said "No possum rabbit!" I said no they don't know what they are talking about, it is a possum. He went back and returned rabbit! So that didn't go very far. Then I took a coon, the next time I went in to have dinner, he came over and I asked him how he liked the coon.
"Ohh! very tough!" Jimmy held his hands on the sides of his jaws and rocked his head back and forth, tough tough tough!!!
So next time I took in a Bobcat!
He loved it! I took every Bobcat I caught that year to him and this was 16-17 years ago! $7.00 each cash! Old Ted {Bobcat } Connelly took to taking his Cats down there and was happy with the $7.00.
My dentist was telling me something and I told her that " I sell Bobcat carcasses to a a Chinese resturant on THIS STREET!"
She got all excited and asked which one and I wouldn't tell her. AAAAHHH!
"I'll never eat Chinese food again!"
No , I told her that they don't sell it to the public! They save the Cat meat till grandmaw and grandpaw come over! It is a delacacy!
My dentist said "I'll never eat Chinese food again."
But think about it boys, Chinese like Cat!
And Cat are Cat I recon, I am discussing Hog with another chinese friend who started a resturant here recently, and should go over to Jimmys and see if he would be interested. hmmm. Lets look into this selling of these furbearer carcasses, so as to not waste them, the world is changing and todays Grinner, Hog, or Coyote,
could be tomorrows Sunday dinner for somebody. All these third world types moving into the usa, gotta eat something.
Ever see a dog in Mexico? In Tiawan? What does this tell ya? Coyote are good meat! Jimmy and I were talking about sending a 4,000Lb frozen shipping container onboard ship for Tiawan, and when I called Austin to ask the legal points no one knew. Eventually I was switched to the boss game warden down in Austin, the Captain... and when I asked him what I needed to do to legally ship 4,000 Lbs of frozen Coyote carcasses to Tiawan, he asked me "Jack, do you really think they would eat Coyotes?" I said " I wouldn't think a starving Indian would eat a Coyote, but they want to try." He just laughed and laughed and I said thats a new one isn't it." And he said yes.
