What meat did country folk eat in the 20's-30's in Georgia?

[Resica]

Used to, most of them died.

Yea. I have tons of Chestnut trees up at camp. Find some fruit bearing ones but that blight takes care of most of them prior to that.

 

[HermanMerman]

anybody ever wrung a chickens neck

Every time I tried it, I ripped its head off. Still accomplished the same goal I suppose.

 

[WOODIE13]

anybody ever wrung a chickens neck

We used an ax and tossed them under a wash tub

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

We ate chipmunks, we shot a bunch one weekend, cleaned and froze them at my buddy's grandparents place.

Guess his grandpa thought they were squirrel, cooked and ate them. He said they were great, but smallest squirrels he ever seen

We called them “ground squirrels”. I’ve seen exactly 2 in South Carolina in 30 years. I havent heard a one in the woods tho.

 

[WOODIE13]

We called them “ground squirrels”. I’ve seen exactly 2 in South Carolina in 30 years. I havent heard a one in the woods tho.

Wasn't seeing many here, but seems they are making a comeback.

 

[livinoutdoors]

We called them “ground squirrels”. I’ve seen exactly 2 in South Carolina in 30 years. I havent heard a one in the woods tho.

Aint no chipmunks in sc? Thats crazy. I got a billion of em round here just across the river from yall.

 

[HermanMerman]

They would catch opossums and feed them potatoes for a couple of days to clean them out before they hit the pot.

 

[Nicodemus]

They would catch opossums and feed them potatoes for a couple of days to clean them out before they hit the pot.

They were fed cornbread down here.

 

[basstrkr]

My grand dad (in 40's50's), salt cured pork for the public. About once month he slaughtered a cow, skint and butchered. laid on clean sheets and peddled it to folks in town.

 

[Stroker]

One more wild game my folks utilized, this time of the year and I was reminded of it just a minute ago when a couple of robins pitched down in the pasture. During this time of the year they would thrash robins. Then they would dress and salt for later what they didn't eat fresh.

Robin taste just like dove. Catch a flock on the ground, Neal down and let the old Fox 20 rip. Sometimes you would get 20 or 30 with one shot. Good eating.

 

[JustUs4All]

Dad was born in 1912 & grew up on the farm. They kept chickens and hogs, and kept rabbit boxes out as well. They hunted rabbits, coons, squirrels and quail.

One of his G-Uncles liked english sparrows killed using the method above over scratch feed spread in a shallow trench. LOL

 

[The Original Rooster]

You could still find plenty of American Chestnuts?

I've read stories of folks in the mountains finding chestnut trees literally knee deep surrounded by chestnuts.

 

[Nicodemus]

Doves, blackbirds, jaybirds, cardinals, grackles, brown thrashers, Baltimore orioles, red bellied woodpeckers, flickers, cedar waxwings, mockingbirds, robins, they all taste the same to me. No difference. Speaking from experience. Mama would make a bird pie that was good as any pot pie I ever ate. She`d also smother fry them in gravy and make a pot of rice or grits and biscuits and they`d be fit to eat.

Every bird I mentioned above are dark meat.

 

[turkeykirk]

My Great Grandfather raised Opossum to supplement chicken and turkey.

My grandfather would get one , put it in a cage and feed it sweet potatoes for a while. Then he would kill it and have my grandmother cook it. I made sure I wasn’t there when he had it for supper.

 

[NE GA Pappy]

My Papa use to pen up a possum for a couple weeks. Feed them corn, stale biscuits, cornbread and such to 'clean them out'.

Possums will eat anything. I guess he didn't want no possum that had roadkill for supper

 

[Artfuldodger]

We called them “ground squirrels”. I’ve seen exactly 2 in South Carolina in 30 years. I havent heard a one in the woods tho.

We saw two in Abbeville, SC at Swartzentruber's Bakery. Might be the only ones I've ever seen except in the mountains.

 

[Redbow]

Being raised on a farm in Johnston County NC we ate mostly pork and chicken like most farm folks did back in the day. Every now and then Grandpa would bring home a pound of stew beef for a change in diet, that's the only beef we ever ate on the farm. On Fridays the fish man came peddling his fish so about every other week we had a good mess of Croakers. My Grandparents did not like fresh water fish I do but I still prefer salt water fish most of the time. We ate birds, rabbits and squirrels out of the woods like everyone else did back many decades ago. My Grandpa although he was born in 1892 did not eat much game out of the woods he ate that all his young life and was tired of that kind of eating. My Grandpa was not much of a hunter nor a fisherman. The dark meat birds are good but Quail with me is tops when it comes to eating birds. Possums we never ate nor raccoons.

 

[specialk]

We used an ax and tossed them under a wash tub

Yep, my grands had a big un split oak log used for splitting pine kindling....hold them by the feet, lay the head accross the block and chop!

 

[NCHillbilly]

We called them “ground squirrels”. I’ve seen exactly 2 in South Carolina in 30 years. I havent heard a one in the woods tho.

I have quite a few on and around my place in SC. Not near as many as there are up here in the mountains, but I see and hear them pretty regularly.

 

[leroy]

My daddy talked about telephoning catfish in the rivers around here before there was a lake. He also talked about putting up opposums and feeding thwm out said it looked like a big old glob of fat after it was cooked