Barfblog: Summer sausage is tasty, maggots and all - (barfblog)

March 22, 2008 – 6:54 pm

http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/yuck-factor/summer-sausage-is-tasty-maggots-and-all/index.html
I grew up in a deer hunting family, and although my own deer hunting career started and ended when I was 13, I was so used to eating venison that beef tasted weird. I still remember one deer my family butchered at home, and my brother chased me around the house with an eyeball. We packaged and marked the cuts, but they stayed in our family freezer. Perhaps we had some guests over for dinner or gave some to a friend at church, but if anyone got sick, it was us.
In Omaha, apparently, things are run differently. Deer processor and poacher extraordinaire Jack McClanahan was finally put out of the summer sausage business. According to the Omaha World-Herald, McClanahan processed and sold tons of tainted summer sausage, much of it from poached deer. McClanahan told federal undercover agents that he sometimes shot deer at night with a rifle from the […]


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