I Ate What?

[Geno]

In my world travels and meals, it wasn't so much out-of-the-ordinary critters. What I found odd was that we et the whooooole critter. Specifically, in northern Chile, when we had asados <<BBQs>>, we would get a live goat for the event. The only parts not eaten by the humanoids were the skin, bone and horns. I would have to say that the strangest thing I ate was "goat lung". Everything else was a bit more normal meat. Seriously, if you want a great BBQ, get yourself a fresh goat. They are great eating.

Geno

 

[GCW5]

The big secret to fixing alot of small, greasy critters is to par-boil them with some potatos, carrots & onion for a couple hours, then rosting them. Much of the "gamey" taste is in the fat. This works well with coon, opposum, skunk, bobcat, muskrat & beaver.

 

[KodiakBeer]

In Korea, I was fed dog from a bulgogi stand on the street by my drunken chortling friends. Who then had a good laugh after I ate it. Then I ordered seconds because it was delicious. Then I felt really bad the next day when I sobered up.

Muskrat was a pretty staple fare in the swampy corner of SE Michigan I grew up in. The VFW, Elks, etc, would buy up all the meat from trappers (yeah, muskrat used to be worth trapping back in ancient times - the 60's) and have muskrat cook-offs. It doesn't taste like chicken, but it's not bad.

The local delicacy here in Kodiak is Seal liver. It doesn't taste like cow or pig liver, it tastes sweet and fatty and really good - like the fat from a really prime cut of steak, but with a different texture.

And every year we make red caviar - salmon eggs. Red caviar doesn't taste fishy, but like egg yolks with a stronger flavor, a good flavor... like egg yolks, but more so, except they "pop" in your mouth. If you tried it, you'd like it!

 

[wankerjake]

FISH EGGS? Blech!

We made salmon roe (ikura) in Alaska and it was outstanding. Very very good.

 

[KodiakBeer]

Ikura is Japanese style caviar and it's waaaaay too salty for my taste. We make traditional Russian malasol caviar - malasol means "low salt" in Russian. It won't "keep" like ikura, so you have to eat it fresh. But it tastes much better.

 

[Alagator]

Armadillo, coon, possum, beaver, gator,frog legs, squirrels, squirrel brains, venison heart, liver, and kidneys. It's not game, but Scottish haggis, New Mexican menudo, and real South Alabama homemade souse made from every part of a hogs head. My old great aunt used to cook chitlins, but one smell was enough to move me out of the house.

 

[DRYHUMOR]

I've eaten dried squid, very rich, like a double chocolate cake. It tastes about like it smells.

I've eaten giant clams, you know, the ones that seem to trap the divers leg in the movies. They are good, but I felt bad after eating it, as I realized how many years the thing had to live to become that big.

 

[lobo9er]

happy to see alot of frog leg eaters in the house. kinda surprised me.

 

[Geno]

Frog is good-eats.

Fish eggs rolled in flour and fried in butter. Add some dandelion green, or pig weed greens with butter, vinegar, salt and pepper and you're set.

Pig tail fried in lard.

Dang-it-almighty, ya'll are takin' me back to my redneck days on the farm!

Geno

 

[usmccpl]

Tried froglegs once years back then promply quit gigging. Them things are nasty. Tried emu aint bad with bbq sauce on it. Camel aint fit to eat neither is kangaroo. Most other small critters that could be trapped,shot,or caught on a fishing line was regular meals on my table when I was growing up.

 

[303Jeff]

Well I'm sure caviar is great and all but the point I was making was more about how odd it is that anybody would even say "What the heck is that?! ...Okay I'll try some." But hey every culture and stripe has their own delicacies and most of them are far more disgusting than what's been listed here. For instance MY people STILL eat this stuff in the old old country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

Though nowadays it's more because of tradition than necessity. This stuff is so bad that they take a shot of straight schnapps with every bite.

 

[Ike R]

@303Jeff...if you have ever ate that stuff ...you win.

I gagged just reading about it

 

[303Jeff]

@303Jeff...if you have ever ate that stuff ...you win.

I gagged just reading about it

lol No, I haven't but at some point in my life I plan on going to the old country to Oslo and try to find out more about my great-grandfather whose family came over here on a boat. I'll give it a try. I'm gonna need a big shot of brennivin though.

 

[1911pewpew]

My aunt learned me long ago not to ask what dinner was. Just put some hot sauce on it and shut up.

nutria, possum, frogs, gators, bat, various bugs, and lord only knows what my aunt has fed me

 

[Art Eatman]

Yup. You can tell if a biker's happy by the bugs in his teeth.

Frog legs are scrumptious. Back in the way-back-when, Mac'n'Nell's Fish Camp at Orange Lake, Florida, served gator tail as part of their cafeteria style deal. Plus turtle and fish. Veggies, iced tea and dessert: $1.50. Airboat rides extra.

Fried rattlesnake is another "tastes like chicken" deal. "Snake fingers".

 

[Readyrod]

Frog legs are great, we used to hunt them and fry up the legs in butter and garlic when I was in summer camp, yummy. Here in Japan I've eaten strange stuff; horse sashimi, whale sashimi (didn't know what it was beforehand, gagged when they told me). When I was living in a village in Africa they fed me chicken, I recognized the parts only cause I remembered them from physiology class in college. That was gross!

 

[Claymore1500]

Dang, I go to that "scottish" restuarant, (you know, the one with the arches) Ain't no tellin' what I have eaten.

 

[~z]

I just returned from Mongolia, here are some of the tasty treats from a ger in the south Gobi.

~z

 

[Tacbandit]

Quote: from Art Eatman
"Frog legs are scrumptious. Back in the way-back-when, Mac'n'Nell's Fish Camp at Orange Lake, Florida, served gator tail as part of their cafeteria style deal. Plus turtle and fish. Veggies, iced tea and dessert: $1.50. Airboat rides extra."

Art, sounds like that was a dandy place...When was that...? Any idea if that fish camp still exists, even if by another name...?

 

[JohnBT]

"I mean, seriously, FISH EGGS?"

I'm not much on shad roe, but herring roe fried in bacon grease is really good. During the spring migration you can catch herring by jigging bare gold hooks.

Cooking the actual fish, well, we don't. We salt the fillets down in jars and let the salt dissolve all of the bones. Shad get cooked for hours, either over a slow fire or in a 200* oven with the door open.

My favorite food is conch salad. Raw conch cut up in a bowl with some veggies and peppers and lime juice to 'cook' it.

Now I'm hungry again.

 

[oldbanjo]

I ate fried squid while in Spain, taste like tough shrimp. NOTE: Chinese restaurants are always getting in trouble for cooking house cats.

 

[desidog]

Aside from some of the options; snapping turtle, horse, donkey, mule...flying fish, tree rat aka "squirrel", regular rats aka "millers", wood chuck, and plenty of arthropods and mollusks.

The Italian Army's donkey tortellini was outstanding for mess hall grub.

"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eating steak." -Jayne, Firefly

 

[JMidJr]

Turtle stew - mmmm!
Served my parents braised armadillo for their 41st anniversay back in'80. They loved it. For years I had to kill a 'dillo when going to visit them.

Diamondback is good fried. Coon's okay if cleaned properly ( get all those 'glands' out.) Coot breast is fine eating.

 

[Packman]

Compared to you guys...I'm a wimp. I've had Gator, that's about it from the list. I actually like gator jerky better than beef jerky. Well, sometimes...depends who cooked it. Not all jerky is created equal.

I'm willing to try new things, but I prefer not to find out what it was until I'm well removed from it afterwords.

 

[CHEVELLE427]

gator for me too======who ate a bat



some of the guys in south Louisiana i worked with would eat anything that wont eat them first