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Cody_in_Baltimore OP t1_ja8m9wa wrote

>To reach muskrat county, you head east on Route 50 to Cambridge, then turn southwest, passing the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and winding through the marshes of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. It’s here, beneath the scrubby pines and amid tall, dun-colored grasses that muskrats, a species native to wetlands throughout the continental United States, make their homes. The marshlands are full of what locals describe as “boot-sucking mud” and act as a natural filter, cleaning the water before it reaches the nearby Chesapeake Bay.

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weahman t1_ja8n97e wrote

Some decent numbers in those contests

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_ja8ra7y wrote

PBS has a documentary about this called Muskrat Lovely that came out in the mid 2000s but it doesn't seem to be online anywhere.

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Cunninghams_right t1_ja8vi5k wrote

interesting. most people are very disconnected from their food source. the idea of killing, skinning, and eating something is weird to them, then they eat some meat from the grocery store and never think about the fact that the meat once had skin.

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PitchFormal921 t1_ja9bapj wrote

This was on Travel Channel a while back as well in an episode of Bizarre Foods America.

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awaybaltimore410 t1_ja9ruwn wrote

Eastern shore of MD and NJ is straight garbage. Like a dumpster with poop and fish guts.

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ObviousGazelle t1_ja9uy23 wrote

In this thread: everyone's a vegan and disgusted.

Until someone hands them a soft crab sandwich platter

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notme05 t1_jaa1ado wrote

My grandfather used to deliver musk rats in his truck to people in Maryland

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awaybaltimore410 t1_jaa47vz wrote

Replying to dj_ghostcat (#2,075,998)

Well shoot. I guess it's ok. But when I lived there it was terrible. Lots of drugs. No much work. Lot of crazy biker types and loud party people. I know ocean city and Berlin some of Delaware .

Unless you're fairly well off financially, it's a not a fun place...for me anyways.

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awaybaltimore410 t1_jaa5btp wrote

Replying to Not_ROBVH (#2,077,867)

I know it well actually. I don't actually hate it. It's just a hard place to grow out of that mold you get put in by people there. It's a small town. Everyone knows everyone. I keep as far away as possible from anyone from that time and place...

Also lived in BUFFALO NY and went to Roswell Park

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dj_ghostcat t1_jaa5sc5 wrote

Replying to awaybaltimore410 (#2,078,648)

Oh yeah, parts are very economically depressed.

Also, I avoid Ocean City like the plague. It's pretty trashy compared to other beaches nearby (especially in Delaware).

I can understand having had a bad experience though. It happens!

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