Eating Beaver

Jimmy Jones wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>TheFamousGrouse wrote:</div>
Slippery, the famous proprietor of the namesake Slippery’s Bar in Wabasha used to roast a beaver every year for the opening day of duck season. He would slow roast it, shred it, and set it out in a warmer at the end of the bar with buns, BBQ sauce, etc and with a help yourself sign.

It would all disappear. Several times, my dad was there and out-of-towner sports would ask Slippery what it was. He’d always tell them it was beaver and they’d laugh it off and not believe him and just keep on eating it. “That’s a good one Slippery, you really had me going for a second there!”

Dick Kaveneau [sp] was a character. Never without a cigar in his mouth. As far as anglers went, he was one of the best. I spent a few early mornings in his boat with him and when it came to putting 10 pound or better walleyes in the net during the warm months he was perhaps the best.

I was just a kid when we lived in Wabasha, but I recall Slippery’s ever-present cigar. He even had a hole drilled in his snowmobile helmet visor for the cigar to poke through.

The roasted beaver was one of many quirky things that he did. My dad said that he kept pickled eggs in a jar on the bar. The sign on the jar said 10 cents each or two for a quarter.

I remember when I was a freshman at vermilion CC in Ely, whenever we would “procure” our totally legal beverages for bonfires and parties, we’d always stop at a place called “Beaver Liquor” with our old-enough friends.

The name always got me.

Grouse, that 2 for a quarter sounds like a helluva deal!

LabDaddy1 wrote:

I remember when I was a freshman at vermilion CC in Ely, whenever we would “procure” our totally legal beverages for bonfires and parties, we’d always stop at a place called “Beaver Liquor” with our old-enough friends.

The name always got me.

That was the first place I bought beer at aswell when I went to college there. The sign caught my eye and I knew I had to go in.

The Grumpy Old Men Festival is this weekend. Are you going Grouse?

That youtube is hilarious, Capt’n.

LabDaddy1 wrote:

we’d always stop at a place called “Beaver Liquor” with our old-enough friends.

There’s a liquor store in Beaver Colorado where the Beaver Creek ski resort is. The Beaver Liquors there sells a lot of hats and T shirts.

Jimmy Jones wrote:

The Grumpy Old Men Festival is this weekend. Are you going Grouse?

No, I’ve never been to the festival. I hate to say it but it’s been close to 50 years since we left. Wabasha was such a great place to grow up with so many characters my dad knew and the fishing on the river. I take it you remember what Slippery’s was like back in the 70s? What a classic.

I cannot remember the team, but they had t-shirts for home coming.
We licked the beavers now we want moorehead

Eelpoutguy wrote:

I cannot remember the team, but they had t-shirts for home coming.
We licked the beavers now we want moorehead

Alright that’s pretty good

That was funny in the 70’s – 90’s now you would get expelled for a shirt like that. It probably violates someones civil rights.

TheFamousGrouse wrote:

No, I’ve never been to the festival. I hate to say it but it’s been close to 50 years since we left. Wabasha was such a great place to grow up with so many characters my dad knew and the fishing on the river. I take it you remember what Slippery’s was like back in the 70s? What a classic.

I fished with him a number of times back in the 70’s. He was a master of trolling raps on rip-rap and caught more ten plus pound walleyes than anyone I remember. He’d say “if you want to fish with me, be here at 4. And I don’t wait.” That was 4AM. He’d run us up to the mouth of the Chippewa River and we’d work the Minnesota side along the rocks. If memory serves me right, a #13 black and silver or blue and silver floating Rapala with a three way and weight. He knew where the center of the channel was on the trip up in the blackest of dark mornings or in fog so thick you could feel if come in your lungs when you inhaled. The man had an internal compass I swear.

I’d always stop just to shoot the bull with him, order a burger and fries and yack away half an afternoon. But more than anything it was that damned cigar he always had in his mouth. He didn’t even take it out to take a pull of beer from the bottle. He was a true classic.

In the 80s then brother in law from mnts in CO gave us a roast that just said BV Roast being that they were from Buena vista CO didn’t suspect anything. Did notice possibly a slight green tint to fat layers but we roasted it anyways and it was totally enjoyed. Wasn’t until later we found out that it was beaver that he took of his place. I would definitely eat it again. Due to I have some friends that look at the pat on this channel I won’t state the next way to eat “beaver”

From what I find if you lick the whole beaver before starting to eat it it always turns out a lot better

The SCRATCHER wrote:

From what I find if you lick the whole beaver before starting to eat it it always turns out a lot better

The SCRATCHER wrote:

From what I find if you lick the whole beaver before starting to eat it it always turns out a lot better

kinda depends on how its preseasoned too…….. just sayin!!!!!

Any recipes for that “preseasoning” Glenn?

How does everyone like their beaver?
Rare, medium rare, medium, or well done?

Erik Swenson wrote:

Any recipes for that “preseasoning” Glenn?

cool whip……baileys…….. hot sauce iffin your into spicy!!!!!

medium rare for me!!!!!!!!

glenn57 wrote:

hot sauce iffin your into spicy!!!!

I’m not sure the beaver would appreciate the hot sauce Glenn but who knows.

Alot of things are better aged. Not sure beaver is one of them

They say you eat with you eyes and nose first so a well cleaned and groomed beaver is always better.

I like mine with a little fur left on it.

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Hot Sauce?!

Sage advice Jeremy. However, any fellow koochie liquor would know this just by “in-stinked”…

A couple Japanese guys I worked with came on my stag party tour of the strip clubs around the Twin Cities. Brought him down to sniffer’s row and had him put a $1 bill between the glass. The gal came over and squatted down in front of him. He said, “Ohhhhh, Arby’s roast beef sandwich!!” There might have even been some Horsey Sauce, too!!

The keg on the school bus we rented (this was in 1989) wasn’t working and the bus driver said he’d take a look at it while we were in one of the clubs. Came back and the beer was flowing. What a night!!

Netguy wrote:

A couple Japanese guys I worked with came on my stag party tour of the strip clubs around the Twin Cities. Brought him down to sniffer’s row and had him put a $1 bill between the glass.

Sniffers row is that the same as box seats?

Come on guys this is a fishing form you that a Beaver that taste like fish now that is the dish I guess that is why I like sushi so much