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ahh, that is cute.


Marinated Porcupine Chops (hey, it's Friday)

Amount Measure Ingredient Preparation Method
6 Porcupine chops
3 Fingers coltsfoot salt
1 qt Maple sap
2 sm Wild onions
4 Wild leeks

Pour the sap in a birch bark container or other non-metallic
container. Cut up the onions into small pieces and add to the sap.
Place the porcupine chops one at a time into the solution, placing
one wild leek between the chops. Let stand overnight in a cool
place. In the morning grease the stone griddle with fat and remove
the chops from the marinade and fry on the griddle. Serve on hot
cornmeal cakes.

They are surprisingly cute once you get past the quills:

Baby Porcupine vs. Banana. [VIDEO]

You don't see them much in the wild. They sleep in the day and spend most of their time up trees. I've seen a couple in the fall when they come down to feast on windfall apples and they they end up getting drunk. Hikers sometimes run into them when they sleep because they like to chew on their boots for the salt.

Here's the video with "sub-titles"

Teddy the Porcupine with subtitles - YouTube