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For Lent if you get tired of fish, try muskrat

1 Comment Published February 22nd, 2007 in Michigan Eats

Um, yeah. So I came across this video from the Detroit Free Press where columnist Mike Wendland reports that
It was French fur trappers who introduced the muskrat as a food source to southeastern Michigan in the 18th century. French settlers later appealed to their bishop to allow muskrat to be a fish substitute. [...]