Cosmoline
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Long pig...
It's what's for dinner
It's what's for dinner
Animals that are NOT good to eat
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Nathan Williams
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Why were you eating bluejay? I can kinda understand peacock but bluejay. Anyway gatormeat is good breaded up and deepfried, and buffalo roast slow cooked is delicious. As for me I cant stomach squirrel theres no reason to bother with cleaning them you get all of two bites off the little critters.Oregongundude
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Anyone eaten Raccoon, or Shunk before, doesn't seem interesting to me.
Has anyone ever eaten Raccoon, or Shunk? I don't find either of them that appealling.
I have eaten Rabbits before and I actually like them.
Has anyone ever eaten Raccoon, or Shunk? I don't find either of them that appealling.
I have eaten Rabbits before and I actually like them.Camel sucks as does knagaroo. That is the only critters I have eaten that i didnt like. But after living off of chicken and rice for 7 months you couldnt get me within a country mile of one of the birds. Maybe I just aint picky or maybe after eating MREs I feel that anything that aint poison is etable.
one shot one kill
one shot one kill
FortyRodRay
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Hossdaniels, let me tell you...
Son, you have to come west to the river (Miss). Not sure who's been cooking your duck and dove, but let me tell you, you just haven't lived till you had a woodie (old folks call em' summer ducks) with orange and apple slices or grilled mourning dove wrapped in bacon....wild rice and pan gravy... sweet taters...yum.... yum.... oh you'll fight your momma for seconds... Call the next time you come through town and we'll see what's left in the freezer...
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Son, you have to come west to the river (Miss). Not sure who's been cooking your duck and dove, but let me tell you, you just haven't lived till you had a woodie (old folks call em' summer ducks) with orange and apple slices or grilled mourning dove wrapped in bacon....wild rice and pan gravy... sweet taters...yum.... yum.... oh you'll fight your momma for seconds... Call the next time you come through town and we'll see what's left in the freezer...
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Gord
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Ostrich (at least in hot dog form) is so tough as to be practically inedible. Just trying to bite through the thing was a chore, much less chew. Had one bite, threw the rest away.
It didn't taste terribly different from pork, though.
It didn't taste terribly different from pork, though.
For a while a local restaurant was serving "emu". Looked like very coarse beef and tasted like very coarse cardboard. No real taste at all, just the texture. Spent 30 minutes with dental floss getting it out of my teeth. Needed a lot of bbq sauce to make it palatable.
Tried dried squid in SE Asia many years ago. It swelled as you chewed. Felt like shoe leather, tasted OK as I remember -- or maybe it was the southern comfort I was washing it down with. Longer you chewed, the bigger the piece got. Some had to practically pry it out of their mouths. A small bite lasted you half the evening. It did give me a headache the next morning - or maybe again it was the southern comfort chaser.
Tried dried squid in SE Asia many years ago. It swelled as you chewed. Felt like shoe leather, tasted OK as I remember -- or maybe it was the southern comfort I was washing it down with. Longer you chewed, the bigger the piece got. Some had to practically pry it out of their mouths. A small bite lasted you half the evening. It did give me a headache the next morning - or maybe again it was the southern comfort chaser.
carnaby
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I heard squirrel was pretty good, supposedly even Julia Child went on about how great it was. Just none of those garbage fed urban ones.
I also heard you gotta get every smidge of fat off the duck before cooking it or it will be nasty. Had duck once and it was gross, but some folks tell me it was likely just prepared poorly.
I also heard you gotta get every smidge of fat off the duck before cooking it or it will be nasty. Had duck once and it was gross, but some folks tell me it was likely just prepared poorly.
swampdog
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I thought "long pig" referred to the smell of it cooking?
I've eaten bear many times. If it's prepared properly it tastes like a good pot roast. The bears I've eaten have been woods bears, though, not dump. You do need to make sure you trim all the fat.
I've found that how good some game tastes depends on how hungry you are. Some game, like whitetail and rabbit are pretty good anytime. Some game, like raccoon, I need to fast for a day or 2 in preparation. I quit hunting turkey because I just didn't like eating them. You don't want to eat a tough, old rooster, so why would anyone want to eat a tough, old tom? The last one I ate was deep fried and had so much cajun seasoning injected in it, it might as well have been marinated shoe leather, for all I could taste the bird. On second thought, that was probably a blessing.
I tried some sea urchin (uno) at a sushi bar one time. It looked like something that came out of a sick baby's diaper and tasted about as bad. It's the only thing I've ever eaten at a sushi bar that I spit out. The waitress told me when I ordered it that only "experienced" diners liked it. I guess I'm still a rookie.
For those that dislike catfish, catfish taste like the water they come from. I don't care for freshwater cat of any kind, but channel cat from brackish water is pretty tasty. Please don't insult it by comparing it to lawyer.
I've eaten bear many times. If it's prepared properly it tastes like a good pot roast. The bears I've eaten have been woods bears, though, not dump. You do need to make sure you trim all the fat.
I've found that how good some game tastes depends on how hungry you are. Some game, like whitetail and rabbit are pretty good anytime. Some game, like raccoon, I need to fast for a day or 2 in preparation. I quit hunting turkey because I just didn't like eating them. You don't want to eat a tough, old rooster, so why would anyone want to eat a tough, old tom? The last one I ate was deep fried and had so much cajun seasoning injected in it, it might as well have been marinated shoe leather, for all I could taste the bird. On second thought, that was probably a blessing.
I tried some sea urchin (uno) at a sushi bar one time. It looked like something that came out of a sick baby's diaper and tasted about as bad. It's the only thing I've ever eaten at a sushi bar that I spit out. The waitress told me when I ordered it that only "experienced" diners liked it. I guess I'm still a rookie.
For those that dislike catfish, catfish taste like the water they come from. I don't care for freshwater cat of any kind, but channel cat from brackish water is pretty tasty. Please don't insult it by comparing it to lawyer.
I've eaten most creatures that can walk, slither or fly in the Texas woods. No Skunk, coyote, bobcat or buzzard though. Armadillo isn't bad or rattle snake, possum, squirrel, rabbit, raccoon. I don't care for javalina too much. I do like whitetail, axis and sika deer. Doves are great wrapped in bacon with jalapenos and cooked on the BBQ. Ducks are good if you know how to prepare and cook them, I don't. Buffalo steaks are not bad at all if cooked right but anything over rare and they are tough as leather.
03Shadowbob
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agree with Swampdog, sea urchen is just nasty.
Browns Fan
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Carp! I'm surprised that no one has mentioned carp yet. I tried it... has a nasty oily taste with a bone hidden in each flake of meat.
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I would not reccomend Puffer Fish.
Karbon
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Avoid any fish ducks (mergansers) and any shovelers. Yuck.
Now Mallard and the like...yummmy.
Bear also...greasy nasty crap.
Now Mallard and the like...yummmy.
Bear also...greasy nasty crap.
Troutman
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Their is a lot of game I don't care for. One thing I will not eat is the vital organs of any animal.
But when I ate beaver, I got hooked on it. I guessed it’s what you were brought up on and what your preferences are.
But when I ate beaver, I got hooked on it. I guessed it’s what you were brought up on and what your preferences are.
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why did i eat bluejay? cause when i was a kid my parents said i should eat what i kill. i was like 10 years old. it sucked so i didnt eat any more of em.
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Boy, oh boy, do you lose that bet! Absolutely the worst thing I ever ate. Next to no meat at all, and what was there was fish-flavored string.
Buffalo burgers are fine. Buffalo steak (especially filet wrapped in bacon and cooked rare...yum!)
Selfdfenz
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I have wanted to shoot a bear like forever but the idea of trying to eat it is so repellant it has compelled me to pass on plugging one.
I like the idea of the rug but rolling the carcus in a whole seems very wasteful.
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I like the idea of the rug but rolling the carcus in a whole seems very wasteful.
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Fried pig tails
Anyone else here ever eat pig tail? After “harvesting”, you roll up a newspaper, ignite it and burn the hair off. Then, wash them, then fry them in lard until crispy. Next, salt them lightly and set them on a paper towel for a minute to drain the lard. They taste like, you got it, pork rinds, but warm. I haven't had them since about 1965 out on the farm.
Doc2005
Anyone else here ever eat pig tail? After “harvesting”, you roll up a newspaper, ignite it and burn the hair off. Then, wash them, then fry them in lard until crispy. Next, salt them lightly and set them on a paper towel for a minute to drain the lard. They taste like, you got it, pork rinds, but warm. I haven't had them since about 1965 out on the farm.
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Call me a wuss, but I am damned picky about what I eat.
Won't go near fish. Would rather starve than eat fish. Infact, don't bother eating fish near me, cuz I will be in the other room. The smell just makes me wanna . This includes lobster, clams, crab, shrimp etc. If it can't drown, I won't eat it.
Not real big on poultry. I am okay with chicken, if it is prepared certain ways, and I can occasionally manage some turkey, but thats just about it. So you won't find me hunting ducks or geese anytime soon.
Some things just sound nasty, but that's because the way I was raised. But you probably won't find me eating squirrel, mountain lion, bear or gator. Went bear hunting this year, I would have tried it, my friends swear I would have loved it, so atleast if I didn't, the meat wouldn't have gone to waste, they would have taken it. In the end, I was glad I didn't get one though, cuz I don't think I would have liked it.
Love beef, love some types of pork (bacon, sausage, ham, can't stand pork chops), have had bison/buffalo a few times, and enjoyed that as well, probably as good as beef to me. Venison and Elk are good as well, especially as jerky.
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Won't go near fish. Would rather starve than eat fish. Infact, don't bother eating fish near me, cuz I will be in the other room. The smell just makes me wanna
. This includes lobster, clams, crab, shrimp etc. If it can't drown, I won't eat it. Not real big on poultry. I am okay with chicken, if it is prepared certain ways, and I can occasionally manage some turkey, but thats just about it. So you won't find me hunting ducks or geese anytime soon.
Some things just sound nasty, but that's because the way I was raised. But you probably won't find me eating squirrel, mountain lion, bear or gator. Went bear hunting this year, I would have tried it, my friends swear I would have loved it, so atleast if I didn't, the meat wouldn't have gone to waste, they would have taken it. In the end, I was glad I didn't get one though, cuz I don't think I would have liked it.
Love beef, love some types of pork (bacon, sausage, ham, can't stand pork chops), have had bison/buffalo a few times, and enjoyed that as well, probably as good as beef to me. Venison and Elk are good as well, especially as jerky.
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