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Default Goats & rabbits [Was: TIMES: Barack Obama's Kenyan family celebrateby slaughtering bulls, chicken and goats]

Ken wrote:
> (Phred) wrote in news:6ndsrgFl97krU1
> @mid.individual.net:
>
>> And frozen rabbits are making an appearance in our supermarkets here
>> in the deep north of the deep south too -- rabbit is a traditional
>> food of the Depression era here in Oz. (But fresh, not frozen. And
>> free for the catching back then.
>>
>>

>
> I hope they arrive here. I love rabbit. Especially in hassenfeffer(sp?).
> Long ago it was available frozen - brand name Pel or something like that.
> I haven't seen rabbit now for at least a decade. I can buy a domestic
> locally but have to slaughter it myself - which I don't want to do.
>
> No cottontails here I've ever seen. Just a very rare occasional jack
> rabbit, and I don't think those are edible. I don't have a .22 rifle or
> shotgun any more anyhow.
>
> No butchers I know of here to ask to order.
>
> Ken
>
>

Some of the Korean markets I visit (NE US) have cleaned whole frozen
cryovac pack rabbit.