I have tried both. Hated coon every time I tried it. The following wasn't bad but I just don't like the idea. I'm way too good a hunter to have to eat junk like that.
I've eaten coon fixed just about every way you can fix them. My favorite way (after a thorough cleaning) is to cut the meat off the bones, season and chicken fry. It's good.
Armadillo, I prefer the recipe that Tony Chachere put in his cookbooks. It's called "Cleve's Smothered Armadillo".
It's pretty dang good. They're not bad grilled either. Just wear rubber gloves and try not to cut yourself while cleaning them.
Eat boiled coon n sweet taters many, many times. Even BBQ'd small ones on an ol' smokey at the deer lease before all were good...
Hard pass on the possum on the half shell...
ate both BBQ'd way way back in middle 70's. both were ok. but nowhere close as good as the brisket and ribs my uncle was BBQing for the real meal.
I tried cleaning an armadillo in my early teens, but i had a dull knife and he was a tough one. so i stopped once i got the shell off and never tried again after i heard the leprosy stories.
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