As a youngster, I grew up eating every cottontail, swamp rabbit, and jackrabbit we could find and kill. I had never eaten domestic rabbit until I started raising New Zealand Whites in the Fall of 1995. In about 5 years, I raised over 300 and ate lots of rabbit. As good as it is, I still don't understand why we rarely find rabbit in our grocery stores.
Of course, I'll never forget the one time I did find rabbit in the supermarket in a Chicago suburb. Three pounds; one cut up rabbit, imported from Poland! As many rabbits as there are in this country, I couldn't believe they had imported rabbit meat. But I was glad enough to see it that I didn't hesitate to buy a box. When it was thawed, it looked good, smelled OK, etc. and when my wife fried it and I took one bite and we threw it all in the garbage. It tasted as if it had been fried in grease left over from a long ago fish fry.