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In the latest issue of The Living Church -- a weekly newsmagazIne for the Episcopal Church -- there appears an article about how Saint Matthew's Church, Fairbanks, Alaska, celebrates "Golden Days" by selling bowls of "booyah." The rector, the Rev. Scott Fisher, describes booyah as "a sort of Midwest harvest stew ... containing darn near everything ... cooked for 24 hours in a steel pot on the church lawn." A photo graph accompanies the article and it depicts a banner in front of the church which reads: "Booyah Feed and Bake Sale." Everyone who knows anything about American churches knows "bake sale" but "booyah"!? I assumed that this was a contrived word, made up by Alaskans during the long sunless winter when they had little else to do. According to the Urban Dictionary, there IS such a thing as booyah: "Booyah is a thick chicken stew that many believe was created in Northeastern Wisconsin by Walloon Belgian settlers. Mary Ann Defnet, a respected historian of Walloon culture in Wisconsin explains the origin of the rather unusual word in a letter sent to K. Fleurant, who had suggested to a reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette that the origin was bouillir, the French word for to boil. Although variations of this dish are found in many cultures worldwide, the wonderfully hearty dish called "booyah" can only be found in Wisconsin." The last sentence is obviously untrue, in that booyah can be found at Saint Matthew's Church, Fairbanks, at least if you show up during Golden Days. I went on to find two recipes for this non-fictitious stew: http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/kitchen/booyah.htmhttp://www.recipegoldmine.com/soupstew/soupstew59.htmlThey both combine chicken, beef and pork with vegetables. I even found a song dedicated to the consumption of this stuff: Cheese curds, booyah and beer, That's what I like to hear. I may be kinda pokey, But I say "okey-dokey!" To cheese curds, booyah and beer. -- from "Belgians in Heaven," by Frederick Heide & James Kaplan The things that one learns on one's lunch hour! Booyah.
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Reminds me of a dish my friend's mom used to make.
I forget what she called it, but it was really, REALLY good.
It had chicken, squirrel, rabbit, deer, wild turkey, and just about
anything else you could think of. One of the best things I ever ate.
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someone at Saint Matthews (perhaps Rev. Scott?) is obviously a Wisconsin expat.
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When I was a starving undergraduate, a chum of mine was doing graduate work on Western squirrels. Sadly, he was required to trap and kill them, to remove one bit of them for study and to discard the rest. This seemed a terrible waste and so we took numerous frozen squirrel carcasses from him and learned to cook them. I haven't tasted squirrel since I was an undergraduate but, if memory serves, it was pretty good.
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Delicious if they're not blown to pieces. You can kill them with a light shotgun, a .410 or a .22. A .410 is easier, of course, with the scatter-blast, but it ends up with lead in the little bugger. A .22 is much better, but then you need to be a better shot. You don't want anything bigger, because it'll blow it to pieces and you wont have anything left to eat.
It was a big delicacy in our house (not the stew, just fried squirrel). We had it 2 or 3 times a month. God I loved it. Rabbits, too.
My mom never made the stew my friend's mom made.
On the downside, I never had chinese or thai or vietnamese or indian or south american food when I was a kid. In fact, the only "mexican" food we ate was tacos and we never tried that till I was in high school. (A friend from texas came to visit.)
But I tell ya - every kid in my vicinity in the lunchroom envied my moose summer sausage sandwiches!
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Thanks for this new addition to my (passive) vocabulary, Father Steve. Up to now the word, indeed as you used it in your sign-off, signified vaguely to me something that Marines or Harvard students might holler at each other.
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Speaking of which, what exactly does it mean when the marines - or Harvard students - yell that. I know it is some kind of pep/encouragment thing but where does it come from.
Oh, and guys...it is illegal to hunt squirrel in Québec. Is it still legal to do so in your neck of the woods?
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From a Marine:
"In more recent years a sound has become common among Marines to convey a variety of thoughts or emotions. That sound is "Oorah." This originated with the Recon Marines, a specialized unit that developed this sound for motivational purposes. Over the years it has spread across the Marine Corps.
There are variations and modifications of "Oorah." It is likely you'll hear a shorter sound such as "Rah," or the less ubiquitous "Ur." Both these terms mean the same thing and are derived from "Oorah." It has numerous uses, therefore a host of meanings, so it is hard to limit it in conversational extrapolation."
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Thanks, JH--interesting.
I forget what she called it, but it was really, REALLY good.
It had chicken, squirrel, rabbit, deer, wild turkey, Sounds like burgoo, Keith.
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variations and modifications of "Oorah."
Mostly what I've heard is Hoo-ah or Hoo-yah. I bleeve others have claimed to be the originators, too, but I'd have to run a check.
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Oh, and guys...it is illegal to hunt squirrel in Québec. Is it still legal to do so in your neck of the woods?
You're not kidding?
I don't know about Virginia where I live now. I haven't been hunting since I lived at home. My parents and 2 brothers live in Tennessee. I haven't heard them talk about it much lately, but I think I'd hear a lot of cussing if such a law were passed.
My wife says dogs are delicious, but considers a squirrel just a tree-rat (which I suppose it is). OTOH, I wouldn't have any trouble at all tossing some rat into the booyah, assuming it were sufficiently meaty.
It's really nagging me that I can't remember the name of that stuff my friend's mom used to make. He's among my oldest friends, but I haven't talked to him in a year or two. He'll think I'm just being silly if I call up just to ask that. I'll try to sneak it in after I catch up on the other stuff.
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As I understand, squirrel hunting is legal all year round in upstate New York, as opposed to big game (deer, not lions!) and birds (turkey, pheasant, quail), which have designated seasons. Which are coming up. Time to pull out the orange vests, not that I'd be easily confused with a turkey or anything (!!).
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I can't remember the name of that stuff
I guess it wasn't burgoo, then.
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Burgoo?
Hey! That might be it!
Do the contents fit the bill?
That is, any sort of dead animal or plant laying about?
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hunting is illegal in all 5 counties of NYC- and i don't think that its permitted in either county on LI, or in Westchester.
every once it in while, this is pointed out, when some country folk, thrilled with the abundance of game, take a pot shot a squirrel, or pheasant, or other game- to fill the families dinner pot.
NYC does support a rich variety of game, and fur animals. mostly small stuff- possums, and racoons, squirrels, red fox, the occational area has rabbits, skunks. Lots of game birds, pheasants, and grouse, and cormorants, egrets, herons, geese, (which every hates, but no one want to seen killed or hunted, they just want them to go away!) many kinds of ducks, swans- and these are just the birds i have seen in NYC! a few years ago, a coyotte wandered into Manhattan- he was seen loping across the Henry Hudson bridge that connects Manhattan to mainland...(and quickly rounded up, and relocated a few counties north of the city!)
Eastern Long Island has deer-- but i don't think it has a hunting season --needless to say, eastern Long Island has lots of Lyme disease. and i think the fox is the biggest preditor to be found.
game is something i barter for; a good friend has a husband that goes hunting, and when she is overstocked, i find something to do for her and she pays me off in venison...
(my daughter is not a vegitarian, but she thinks its wrong to eat 'bambi'- but i am hard hearted!)
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originally a native of Kentucky and had a history of eating squirrel brains.As night follows day... 
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