It's actually kind of a shame. We can't eat shellfish from the meadowlands because they're full of PCBs, and now we can't eat squirrels from the Ramapo Mountains because they're full of lead! At least Ford is atoning for its sins. A guy I used to work with who was a Ramapo Mountain Indian said that when he was a kid they used to find the multicolored paint sludge in the woods gathered in low lying areas where it had leached into the ground water and oozed up out of the mine shafts it was dumped into. Kids being kids they'd pick it up and throw it at each other-now a lot of them have cancer...
In any event, if you're going to cook up some good 'ol Piney stew, you'd best use squirrels from the Pines! Funny though, in my office people were looking at the front page of the Trentonian (or Trashtonian as I like to call it) which had a picture of a squirrel superimposed on a background of bright yellow barrels with the "radioactive" symbol. I explained the whole story to them having heard it firsthand. When I mentioned that my grandmother makes a delicious squirrel stew it raised more than a few eyebrows!
I wouldn't mind groundhog though, I bet they're almost as sweet as squirrel being grazers and such.
