Animals that are NOT good to eat

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That's my take on Swordfish as well, not as good as some but still quite tasty.

Summertime largemouth bass...now that's just sick, and I like fish.

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I ate a duck one time that tasted horrible...I didn't really like moose. I really want to like buffalo but have never had any that was good, all of it that I have had was very tough. I love swordfish though, I didn't think it was greasy at all.
 
I've had red squirrel once, and it didn't taste too bad, but it takes two to make a decent sandwich so I decided they weren't worth the effort.
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You could say the same about any small birds, but to me, the eating is just a bonus. The huntin' is what I'm after. I love to hunt squirrels with a .22. Now days, I prefer a handgun.

Lamb?! The best meal I've ever eaten at a restaurant was lamb saag, an Indian dish. Lamb korma is also excellent. I've never heard anyone dislike lamb.
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I ate lamb my cousin cooked, tasted like candle wax.:barf: I reckon that's one of those meats you have to know how to properly prepare.
 
best and worst

Best ive had:

Crappie
Squirrel "hot wings" that my wife makes with the small pine squirrels here in the rockies
crawfish, boiled & dipped in butter
walleye
yellow perch

Worst ive had

Merganzer (i think coot) terrible fishy taste!
carp, my GF, now wife, wanted to try it
jackrabbit, nasty tasting and tough as vulcanized rubber!
Abert Squirrel, nasty and bitter tasting

-Eric
 
Rocky Mountain Oysters!!!

I grew up in Wyoming and every year during branding season we would fry us up a plate of fresh cut oysters! I perfer them cooked, but have had one raw...taste like a chunky piece of snot. BUT if you cook them on the grill they are quite tasty!
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Yum whats for dessert a Bobcats :cuss: hole? Honestly thats just plain nasty :barf: :barf: :barf: . And to all the people who say they didnt care for Buffalo you just aint had it prepared right. My first encounter with buffalo was when I was living with a roomate in Minnesota, his dad shot a Buffalo on a hunt and invited us over for dinner one night. Simmered slow as a roast it wasmelt in your mouth good.
 
Cousin Mike, that's sorta odd about swordfish. I've only eaten it in restaurants, and it was quite good. Very much like king mackeral, another good tasting fish.

Art
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I've got a freezer full of it. I've been too scared to cook it up because of all the people saying it tastes so bad.

I do agree though, they are fun to catch. Toothy lil' critters.
 
I always cut my kings into 1" steaks. Broil or grill. A little lemon juice; a bit of dill and/or maybe some paprika. Anyway, light on the seasoning. Good! Just eat the four muscle-pieces, of course.

Some folks trim out the dark stuff and the spine before cooking. Whatever...

All fish taste better when eaten fresh. Snapper is popular because it's the least harmed by freezing.

Art
 
YUM

French Fried Skunk

2 Skunks, skinned and cleaned
1 tb Salt
Water to cover
2 c Bear fat or lard
2 Egg yolks, beaten
3 c Milk or cream
1 1/2 c Flour
1/2 ts Salt
2 tb Baking powder

Clean and wash the skunks, making sure that the scent glands are removed. Cut up into small serving pieces. Put a soup kettle on the stove and add the meat. Cover with cold water and bring to a boi over high heat. Lower the heat and boil until the meat is tender, about 40 minues. Remove all the scum that rises to the surface. Make a batter by mixing together the egg yolks, milk, flour, salt and baking ppowder. Mix real good until the batter is about like cake batter. Heat the bear fat or lard in a deep fryer to about 360 degrees. Dip the ppieces of skunk in the batter and then fry them in the deep fryer until golden brown. Drain well and serve.
 
Art,
You are obviously a man of excellent taste, kingfish is one of my favorite offshore fish. I like fish that taste like fish, though.
The smaller ones are less fishy tasting than a big one. I'll steak a small one then cut the 4 pieces of meat out and deep fry them in hot breader. Yum.
Larger ones either get "Italian dressing" marinade or I'll coat them with mayo and cover them with cajun seasoning. Put it on a hot grill and YUM!
King mackeral is also excellent smoked and makes a good salad or dip, smoked or grilled.
The mayo treatment above is also excellent on wahoo, which happens to be my favorite offshore fish.
Did I mention deep fried or blackened mahi-mahi? :D
 
Porcupine is not too bad. Some Native American friends taught me how they "fix" it when I was a kid. I shot one and they picked it up with a shovel, dumped it into the cut off bottom of a barrel, poured about a cup of gasoline on it, and lit it. When the quills were burnt off, the gutted it, skinned it, and grilled it. Not bad, but I could taste gasoline which is not my favorite condiment.
 
The worst wild meat I've tried to eat was kangaroo. It was in a nice resturant so I assume it was prepared properly. Do any of you remember enough about the neurological disease reported a few years ago that was linked to eating squirril brains?
 
Sounds like some of you guys have tried eating carrion.
When meat is spoiled it sucks and can make you barf.

Bear,racoon, beaver, muskrat are good eating when the meat is taken care of from the time of the kill.

Skunk?, coyote?, red squirell? YUCK!!! I would have to be starving and unable to shoot anything else.
 
gezzer, I skinned out a coyote, for a friend's vest-making effort, and the little devil was fat as butter. The hams looked plenty good, although I wasn't particularly interested in eating them. But, freshly butchered and slow-cooked, I don't see why it would have been bad eating.

Art
 
not to good

The only meat that I know to be unedible is wolverine and the weasle.
all others I have tried are good everything from coyote to crow. I have to admit that sea gull is not that great we had it at a wild game feed.
 
Art just the smell of the Coyotes I have shot up here in NH puts off any thoughts of eating one.
 
Cousin Mike, that's sorta odd about swordfish. I've only eaten it in restaurants, and it was quite good.
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That's my take on Swordfish as well, not as good as some but still quite tasty.
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Maybe I should eat where you guys do, or try to cook it myself. The only time I thought to try it was a few years ago, on a date. My girlfriend at the time wanted to go to Red Lobster. At the time, both of my little brothers worked there, so meals were free... Didn't tell her that, though :D

Anyways, I ordered the swordfish. Worst $25 I've ever spent! :barf:

I'd be willing to give it another try, just not at Red Lobster... and I'm definitely not paying for it again. I'll have to try it on someone else's dollar.

OH!!!

I forgot... BEST seafood I ever had - or best meat in general... escargot.

Yep.. snails... parents took me to dinner for my 14th birthday and let me order whatever I wanted... I got a lobster tail, and a side of escargot to gross my parents out. :D Turned out to be the best tasting thing I've ever had the pleasure to eat. If you've never tried it, you HAVE to sample it just once. I still get weak-kneed thinking about it all these years later.

And what's up with all the folks who don't like lamb?! Y'all must be doin' SOMETHIN' wrong. Lamb is a big favorite of mine... Lamb steaks and mint sauce... :) If my grandmother was still alive I'd drive to Detroit right now for her lamb w/mint jelly. OK, I have to go eat now..
 
armadillo

Armadillo is really good eats. Best meat I ever ate. No joke.

Duck is good but really greasy. Cook it so it drains and save the drippings for gravy. Mmmmmm.

Ate a lot of strange things in Japan. Had whale once. Awful in the extreme, very oily and fishy. The whale blubber was crunchy and not so great.

Horse was pretty good. I ate it raw, Japanese style, dipped in sauce.

Eel is super nasty, oily fishy taste.

I saw a kid shooting starlings with a BB gun. Asked him why. He just said 'meat'. That was a pretty poor town. I believed him. Even the cats when I was a kid wouldn't eat the starlings we shot. Must be pretty nasty.

Had an alcoholic drink with a snake in the bottle. Took many beers to get the horrible taste out of my mouth.
 
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