Hi Prince! I lived in Mississippi for many years.... I think 23 very long years in a miserable tortured marriage which it took me another couple years to get divorced from. Interestingly, during this time I worked with a number of Black men or African Americans if preferred to be called. I think they just like to be called Blacks as far as I know. Anyway, the cool Black guys I worked with asked me to bring them any raccoons I found hit on the road or if I shot... but it is required that when I skin the raccoon that I must leave at least one foot on the coon so that they can tell that it is a raccoon. They paid $5 bucks apiece. Their recipe called for Raccoon and sweet potatoes. No one eats nasty opossums or armadillos. I tried once but found them disgusting and greasy. They gave me a taste of coon. I will share the secret recipe by request.
Hello Cowface. It doesn't surprise me that people would actually eat raccoons. From what I read about the great depression people ate what they could find namely groundhogs, squirrels, rabbits, foxes, bears and so on.
Which brings me to armadillo's I wouldn't recommend anyone to eat those things they are known to spread Leprosy.