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After his admission to eat raccoon meat went viral, the Carolina Panthers wide receiver Xavier Legette he brought some to work to share.
Legette, 23, made the culinary revelation on the Dec. 10 episode of “St. Brown Podcast,” hosted by the Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. “Like the raccoon you see in the trash can,” Legette said when asked about his hottest food. “I hunt it. I kill it. I pull it. Cook it. Eat it. All of it.”
On Thursday, Dec. 26, Legette arrived at Panthers practice with some Christmas Eve raccoon leftovers in a reusable food container.
“We’re cooking the b– up,” Legette told the Panthers’ special teams coach Darren Bates when performing a raccoon v video posted via X. “Let the meat fall off the bone, you know what I’m talking about?”
Skeptical Bates found the spoon and decided to dig into it. “Come on, kid,” Legette told him. “I know it jumped right onto their (taste) cells and started dancing!”
When one of his followers asked him, “So how was it?” Bates replied, “It wasn’t bad. It didn’t taste like I thought it would.”
It wasn’t just the Panthers coaches who got in on the fun with the raccoons.
Panthers beat writers Sheena Quick shared her own video interaction with Legette through X. “You all must try!” Legette told the assembled group of reporters.
She quickly picked up a piece of raccoon meat with her fingers and tried it herself. “That’s not bad, is it?” Legette asked her with a big smile on his face.
“It’s not bad, it’s not bad,” Quick said.
Quick doubled over the X and wrote: “UPDATE: I tried the coon… and it wasn’t bad! Spicy and well seasoned.”
As he passed the meat, Legette was asked how he could consider himself a “picky eater” when he enjoyed eating raccoon.
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“I mean, I don’t eat peppers and all that extra stuff,” Legette said captured video by Carolina Blitz. “Those things are too exotic for me.
Legette also said he wouldn’t eat “onions” for the same reason. “The raccoon is a regular,” Legette said with a laugh.
On “St. Brown Podcast,” said Legette, who has eaten raccoon all his life, especially around holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. In addition, Legette said he often likes to eat squirrel and rabbit.
“Everybody’s trying to make things taste like chicken,” Legette explained. “But a raccoon has a taste of its own.
