close
close

Pasteleria-edelweiss

Real-time news, timeless knowledge

    • German butcher makes meat from raccoons
    bigrus

    German butcher makes meat from raccoons

    Harry Posted on

    To gain control over of Germany Due to a rapidly growing raccoon problem, a butcher in the northeastern city of Kade has begun turning raccoons into sausages, CNN reported on Wednesday.

    Michael Reiss, who opened the ‘Wildererhütte’ store in 2022, told CNN that the idea came to him while planning a remarkable product for the international ‘Green Week’. food fair.

    Accordingly CNNReiss asked local officials if he could process the raccoons into food instead of throwing them away after they were killed.

    After receiving approval, Reiss made meatballs made from raccoon meat, which he called ‘raccoon balls’, at the fair and said that these attracted great attention from customers both at the fair and in his shop.

    Its popularity grew, and soon Reiss was selling a total of seven raccoon meat products, including salami.

    “We are the only place in Europe that sells raccoon meat,” Reiss told CNN.

    “People come from all over, sometimes traveling 150 kilometers (93 miles) to come to my store and combine it with a day trip because they want to try the raccoon.”

    Everyone seems to like it

    “It was well received. I’ve never heard anyone say it’s disgusting or that they can’t eat it. Honestly, everyone likes it,” Reiss said.

    According to Reiss, the taste of raccoon “is not much different from any other meat you know.”

    “If you eat two sausages, you’ll know which one is a raccoon. But if you didn’t, you wouldn’t notice anything was very different,” he said.

    Stay up to date with the latest news!

    Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter

    Researchers at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt estimate that there is a population of approximately two million raccoons in Germany.

    No longer protected, raccoons can now be hunted in almost every German state.



    Harry
    View all posts

    You Might Also Like