I ate squirrel stew once. My father was overrun with squirrels at his lake house so he asked me to come up and shoot some. My wife and I did the next weekend. I brought the same .22LR Marlin rifle that my dad gave me when I was 10 years old. My first real gun. I brought it for sentimental reasons. Anyway, I shot five nice big ones and I don't hunt just to kill so I insisted that we eat them for dinner. My wife was the daughter of a Vet and hunter so she knew just how to gut and skin them. My step-mother is an excellent cook who has cooked all types of wildlife before so between the two of them they whipped up a squirrel stew. Honestly, it was not very good, and I am being kind here. That was the one and only time that I ate squirrel and none of us developed leprosy either. That being said, squirrel may be delicious if it is cooked differently.