[NorCalRifleman]

I know they aren't high on the list of edible game, but then some people will eat just about anything. Does anyone eat coyote or is their a good reason not to, like a risk of disease or something? I'm just curious. I know 99% of coyote hunters do it simply for varmint control and sport.

[Sistema1927]

Good grief, no. Do you know what those desert dogs eat?

I have shot my fair number of them, and have had friends who trapped them. Those who trap normally bait the trap with the foulest smelling stuff, so bad that you check wind direction before opening the bucket.

[MrTuffPaws]

If you cook it well enough, it should be no problem.

[dfaugh]

Sorry, I'm a dog lover...and that's just a little close to home...but I'm sure some people do eat 'em. Would think they're rather tough though, being a pradator and all.

[Lennyjoe]

:barf: I just about yacked when I read that thread title.

I couldn't fathom eating that K-9 unless it was a life or death situation. Even then I'd have to toss a coin.

[lawson]

i'd have to be pretty dang hungry, but i will eat to survive if it comes down to it.

i have a buddy who eats them all the time, and has been doing it his whole life. diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

[NRA4LIFE]

Egad, I'm eating lunch right now and am getting a little queezy just thinking about it.

[wolf_from_wv]

Where is Mr. Hammie?

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=205219

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Mr. Hammy

I am Hammy, Hammy is me, would you like to try some coyote?
I do not like to eat coyote.

Would you eat it in a box, would you eat it rather than fox?

Not in a box, surely would rather have fox.
I do not like that coyote, I do not like it Mr. Hammy.

Would you like it in fondue, could you eat it in a veggie stew?
I’ve heard BBQ is good, or maybe over mesquite wood?

Not in fondue, not in a stew,
Not BBQ, and not over wood.
I will not eat that coyote,
I’m sure I can’t stand it Mr. Hammy.

You say you don’t like, you tell Hammy,
But taste it taste it, you will see.

Hey this is quite tasty, this coyote
I can really stand it, Mr. Hammy.

So I will eat it in a box,
And I would rather have IT, than fox.
And I will eat it in a cheese fondue,
Over mesquite wood on a BBQ.

Oh how wrong I was, I now can see,
Thank you, thank you Mr. Hammy.

[smokemaker]

I remember reading an article about the Louis & Clark expedition. It stated that the only two things they could not make palateable were fox and coyote. Puked it up no matter how they tried to cook it. :barf:

So try cooking some up and write back telling us whether you puked or not.:barf:


'Cause I'm not gonna try it!:barf:

[Dale Taylor]

It doesn't taste like chicken. If starving tolerable. daleltaylor@att.net

[Harley Quinn]

Sad but true, keeps the population down in the cities.

HQ:)

[ezypikns]

Bout like owl.

[kahr404life]

It taste like chicken ;) but I guess It could have just ate one itself:neener: .

[owen]

In general, eating predators is a bad idea, due to rampant parasites that find new hosts by being eaten.

[kahr404life]

I guess I'd better cook it well done:p .

[usmccpl]

The only time Ive had to use eat and coyote in the same sentence was telling ppl that one tried to eat me and I have had some chow that would make most of yall puke.

[CSA 357]

yall doin it all wrong! you got to catch him in a trap and feed him out, like a possum, if you dont it aint fit to eat!*csa*:D

[BIGJACK]

NO, buzzards either. Cayotes will and do eat anything they can find especially carrion. However, so do bears and a lot of folks eat bear meat.

I ate some bear meat once in a Korean reastaurant in Canada, wasn;t too bad, a little greasy but not too bad. I would not eat a cayote except as a last resort. I think they would be pretty good, like a german shepard, in a starving situation.

[f4t9r]

none for me

[H&Hhunter]

Well no I don't eat coyote but I have to tell, I was flying a bush plane off the north shore of Alaska one time. I was listening to the local AM radio station in Point Barrow to kill the dead time in cruise.

They were having a public health talk about the dangers of ptomaine poisoning. And that several people had become very ill from ptomaine poisoning recently in the arctic regions.

They also reminded the listeners that you need to remember to cook your polar bear and FOX meat. Because raw fox or polar bear is very dangerous to eat because they carry ptomaine poisoning. :barf: :barf: :barf:

So there are some people who will eat wild dog and do it raw if they have to. I think it was pretty common with several native American tribes and I know that an African Bushmen will eat any darned thing he can catch even Jackals I’m told. I guess I would too if it was survival situation.

I'm pretty certain that I've eaten boiled seasoned dog in Asia one time. Either that or it was monkey. No one would say for sure.
:confused:

[jeepmor]

Use the carcass to bait more coyotes....repeat as needed.

I don't think I'd eat one unless I did not have a choice. A jackrabbit, maybe, but again, well done would be key to kill all the parasites in wild game. By the time it's well done, it may not taste very good if it ever would.

jeepmor

[oldhammy1]

Hammy here.

Started a similar thread, referenced above, and if you read it through, there are at least two individuals on this planet who have tasted coyote. I recommend a cheese fondu sauce, or a mesquite BBQ.

Hammy I am.

[ID_shooting]

Not the same, but I did try dog when I was stationed in Korea. Wasn't too bad. Not what I would love to eat, but I could live on it if I had to.

[Byron Quick]

I've never had to eat coyote. Never been that hungry. Hope I never am.

Tell you what, if you see me munching on coyote and you're not my friend or relative-watch your six for hunger has overtaken my sanity. I'd keep an eye open if you're friend or family-once again, I'm certain hunger has driven me crazy-how crazy remains to be seen.

[Sunray]

"... bear meat once in a Korean restaurant in Canada..." If you did, he was selling it illegally. You ate non-inspected meat that was illegally obtained and illegally sold. Asian restaurants are closed regularly up here for very poor or non-existant sanitation. Drove a truck, long ago, delivering to Asian restaurants. Haven't eaten in one since.
I have a recipe for coyote stew if anyone wants it. I'm still looking for a recipe for monkey. I have a recipe for nearly everything else. Relax. It's just a hobby.

[H&Hhunter]

Sunray,

That brings up a good point.

Where should one eat while they are in Asia?

When you say Asian restaurants do you include Japanese restaurants as well?

I love a bit of sushi every once in awhile I sure hope the sanitation is good there!


Do tell on your coyote recipe. I may need it some day.

[MCgunner]

:barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:

Jeez, man, if I'm not that desperate. There's plenty of beef and pork at the WalMart Supercenter within walking distance of my house. :D

Got a friend that ate dog and didn't know what it was until afterward. That was in Korea. He said it wasn't bad. They don't have a lot of strays in Korea. If it was life and death, I'd eat dog, probably eat possum if I absolutely had no choice but to starve. People have eaten rats, even turned to cannibalism when things got desperate. I can't say what I'd do in such a situation, but I don't really wanna think about it since it's getting close to lunch time. :D

[Sunray]

"...Where should one eat while they are in Asia?..." McDonald's.
"...a bit of sushi..." Bait. Even the non-fishy kind.

[shermacman]

If you cook it well enough, it should be no problem.

Yeah, in one of those new thermo-nuclear ovens. Crank the carcass up to around 13,000 degrees for a few hours...:cool:

[abearir]

:barf: Definately not PC but,.........When I go thru a reservation I NEVER order a BLT. I was told once that it stood for Black Lab on Toast......:barf:

[H&Hhunter]

"...Where should one eat while they are in Asia?..." McDonald's.
"...a bit of sushi..." Bait. Even the non-fishy kind.

Sunray,

I'd have to say good advice all the way around.:D

[~z]

bland and stringy, however, not terrible.
~z

[BIGJACK]

Sunray, they brought the stuff out to our table in thin slices which we cooked the way we wanted it on a small habachi type thing in the middle of the table and this was in down town Montreal in about 1985.:)

That night was the first time I had seen completely nube dancers in a "mens club" also.:evil:

[MCgunner]

So, which did you prefer, the meal or the dancers????:D

[jjohnson]

Oh, sure. Why not?

I don't eat a lot of meat - just by choice, not for religeous reasons or anything...but I'm not too good to eat anything properly cooked. I've seen the stuff that goes into dogfood at processing plants.... stuff that goes into sausage... and eaten squid, snake, snails.... okay, as long as it doesn't still have crap in it, I'll eat just about any of it. I'm one of those guys who could squat in a rice paddy and eat fish head soup and not be bothered by it... too many days in the Army I guess.

Coyote? Probably a pain in the a** to clean, but hey, I could see making stew or frying it up with onions and olive oil, maybe. I kid my daughter about her cat - "hey, I could put THREE of those in my crockpot.... "

Yeah. I'd eat it. Not choice number one, but yep.:D

[silverlance]

i find it amusing how many westerners are shaken and disturbed by the "shocking kitchens" of asian restaurants. folks really get upset by the choice of fare - squid, eel, turtle, frog, duck, pig, cow, chicken, goose, sea cucumber, seaweed, squab, sometimes dog in other countries. others try to tell me about how they won't eat at any asian restaurants because they're "unsanitary".

and yet these same people like their steaks rare and still bleeding....

i think people have just become too darn coddled. i have lots of friends that get sick all the time eating all sorts of foods. i never do.

then again, my mother had a rule - don't waste food. heck, even spoiled milk wasn't considered spoiled until it started curdling in the fridge...

and then she'd try to make cheese (although never successfully... we had the theory, but not the actual knowledge).

so.

go ahead and eat that darn coyote. just cook it up real good, this ain't no USDA GRADE A, irradiated, sterilized, BGH-infused, genetically engineered cow.

come to think of it, you'll probably benefit more, nutritionally and biologically speaking, from a well-cooked strip of coyote than an equal portion of flank steak...

personally, the only rule about food that i value more than "don't waste food" is "eat what you kill".

if i hunt an animal - any animal - i'm going to eat it, be it coyote, snake, or squirrel.

the latter two aren't so bad, btw. don't know about coyote, but i probably wouldn't hunt them. remind me too much of my own dog when he was feral.

[Oldnamvet]

[personally, the only rule about food that i value more than "don't waste food" is "eat what you kill".]


My father made me eat sparrow once when I popped one. We'd eat woodchuck, and even beaver tail (BBQ is great). He drew the line at crow. When we hunted those, they got tossed into the hog pens.

[ArmedBear]

heck, even spoiled milk wasn't considered spoiled until it started curdling in the fridge...

and then she'd try to make cheese (although never successfully... we had the theory, but not the actual knowledge).

It's a hard life in Van Nuys!:D

[Lupinus]

I haven't but then I haven't shot any either and I wouldn't mind eating it. We don't eat horse meat but a lot of people around the world do, different strokes I guess.

Besides most any meat will taste good if you pound on it long enough coat it in egg wash and crushed saltine crackers and fry it in butter

[silverlance]

you could probably serve up boot leather like that, too...and i'd eat it -)

[Sistema1927]

Compairing Asian cuisine to American, I learned quite a lot during my tour in Korea in the early 80's.

For example, while there were things that were served that seemed strange to me, this was nothing compared to the reaction that I saw from several KATUSA soldiers (Korean soldiers who augment US troops) who either passed out or vomited at the sight of meat being cut off of a steamship round of roast beef. If you know anything about the practise, they have this huge round of beef, and if you want it well-done they cut if off the outside. If you want it rare, they cut it from the middle, and the blood runs out. Since Koreans only eat meat very, very well done, seeing blood gush out of meat is pretty offensive to them.

I was once chagrined while eating in a very nice restaurant in Seoul to discover that the restroom was a hole in the middle of the kitchen floor, surrounded by a circular shower curtain, and no hand washing facility in sight, so I didn't eat there ever again!

I still contend that while I will eat many things, coyote isn't on the list.

[Lupinus]

most every asian culture only eats very well done meat, infact eating meat as anything but can be considered a fairly new thing. They didn't have refrigeration, medicine, etc and eating rare meat proved more risky then well done meat. Plus your lower classes often ate stews and what not, and asians at a lot of stir fried foods for the simple reason they didn't have the fuel to build a large cooking fire to last for a very long time so it needed to be a quick coooking method. Neither lend themselves to rare meat.

All sorts of places eat weird things

In Asia cat rat and dog might be on the menu

In South America guinea pig might be there, out in the tribes spiders and omlettes made by squeezing their eggs out into a leaf might be on the menu

All of that may be weird to us. But just as weird to them might be going to a resturant with a live under water bug in a tank pointing to it and saying you want that one....even though in some areas they do the same.....just with rats.

[Lupinus]

also for coyotes and knowing what they eat.....

I have to wonder if you also know what pigs eat, what fish eat, and what crabs/lobsters eat :neener: