Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Says Squirrel Brains Are “Delicious” And People Who Aren’t From The South Are Horrified

That's just the Arkansas coming out in him. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was born in Los Angeles, but his family moved to Arkansas when he was three years old and lived there until he graduated from high school. He later founded an oil and gas exploration company in the state, where he made most of his early money that allowed him to buy the NFL team. So it's no surprise that he's picked up some ways of life from his old state. Carolina Panthers rookie wide receiver Xavier Legette recently shocked some folks when he was asked during an appearance on the St. Brown Podcast when asked about his eating habits: “I eat raccoon. Like a raccoon you see in the trash can… I hunt it. I kill it. I skin ‘em. Cook ‘em. Eat ‘em. All that.” The best part was listening to him describe the taste of it: “It’s got its own taste. Everybody tries to say stuff tastes like chicken. But raccoon got its own taste.” Hey, don't knock it until you try it I guess? Well in light of Legette's admission, Jones was asked during a radio interview this morning whether he had ever tried raccoon - and in what may be surprising coming from a billionaire, apparently Jones is quite the fan of raccoon himself. "I've eaten a lot of raccoon... I've eaten it hunting. I've actually had it served by my mom at the table away from hunting. I have eaten raccoon. Yes, it's not uncommon at all." I wouldn't go that far and say it's "not uncommon." But Jones followed it up by mentioning another one of his favorite delicacies:  "I'll tell you something, one of my favorites is squirrel. It's wonderful. My mother could do a great job of it. And we all had our favorite pieces and my dad and sister, I have one sibling, a sister, and they would fight over, not fight...but my mom and I wouldn't even ask for the brain in a squirrel. Delicious. Seriously. But my sister always got it, or my dad." Of course this might sound strange to some people, but squirrel brains actually sounds more normal to me than raccoon. I grew up in West Virginia, and while I've never had squirrel brains myself, I've eaten squirrel before and I know plenty of people who swear that the brains are the best part. Growing up, my great grandma used always have squirrels (that she had hunted herself) wrapped in aluminum foil in her freezer. It was a pretty normal thing. But apparently a lot of people not from the south weren't exactly on board with Jerry Jones when it comes to eating squirrel brains: https://twitter.com/VictoryVoicePod/status/1869037078077743283 https://twitter.com/MikeGiardi/status/1869035338854981699 https://twitter.com/Chris_Carlton/status/1869036248813449328 https://twitter.com/bighardlemeat69/status/1869043238155501697 https://twitter.com/heyyskull/status/1869035214770696529 But then again, a lot of Cowboys fans are looking for any reason to criticize their owner as the team is in the middle of a pretty mediocre season. "America's Team" currently sits at 6-8, in third place in the NFC East and (barring a miracle) going to miss out on the playoffs for the first time since 2020. So it's no wonder that Cowboys fans want their owner to spend more time focusing on fixing their QB situation and less time talking about eating squirrel brains.