Peeps eat squirrels in the US I hear... although I can't imagine it unless their tree rats with bushy tales taste a lot better than the red tree rats we have up here in New Brunswick, Canada. I was in the bush for an unintended stay once and ate two bites of one... spit the second bite out and decided I would wait until I was near starvation. I was 13 years old and all I had was a knife... ya get hungry and tree rats are the easiest animal to kill. But, they surely must be one of the foulest to eat.