I, too, did some weird things in college, but would’ve had to be stoned out of my mind to do something this crazy…
Via Raw Story:
Huckabee: ‘We used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper’
Huckabee spoke to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough from Columbia, SC, saying enthusiastically, "South Carolina’s a great place for me. I mean, I know how to eat grits and speak the language. We even know how to talk about eating fried squirrel and stuff like that, so we’re on the same wavelength." "Mika, I bet you never did this," Huckabee went on, addressing Mika Brzezinski. "When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room."
Um, yeah, right… Because after the Doritos run out and the munchies are still bitin’ hard, and the only edible thing around is that little squirrel…
Oh, sorry, I didn’t read that quote closely enough. This wasn’t a one-time thing: Seems fried squirrel was A REGULAR DINNER ENTREE FOR THIS DUDE AND HIS BUDS!
At least he made himself stop at the grits and fried squirrels though. I guess maybe Huck drew the line at barbecuing road-kill possums on a Dodge V8 Hemi engine block — because that would’ve been way the hell too hick.
Then again, maybe the habitual squirrel frying explains this other family-related thing.
Update: Something I just thought of. No hotplate for these rambunctious SC college buddies — No siree, that’s agin’ the rules! But a squirrel gun? Shore, no problem! (Not to mention gutting, skinning, and prepping the li’l varmint…)
Funny, but at my college (CMU) it was the other way around: Lots of my friends used hotplates, but having a firearm in the dorm would get you expelled.
Well, that explains his politics, then. According to this article:
In the last four years, 11 cases of a human form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have been diagnosed in rural western Kentucky, said Dr. Erick Weisman, clinical director of the Neurobehavioral Institute in Hartford, Ky., where the patients were treated.
“All of them were squirrel-brain eaters,” Dr. Weisman said. Of the 11 patients, at least 6 have died.
*ROFL* Lovely — we go from one guy whose brain went ‘spongiform’ from alcohol and cocaine abuse to the next logical progression, one whose “dain bramage” could be attributed possibly to squirrels.
And then there are the sensible countries in the world, where being smart, sharp, and educated is seen not as a liability but a GOOD THING.
BTW, hi Dave! Great to see you here.
-Becca