What tastes good, what tastes bad?

[m4joey94]

i was just about to post a q like this!!! thanks for savin me the time. covey leader, the bear wrapped in bacon sounds pretty good actually.

 

[41magsnub]

Antelope is my personal favorite. However, there is nothing more vile than badly prepared antelope.

 

[pbearperry]

Tasty game

Elk meat is top shelf.I have also had some great Moose also.

 

[mcwjr13]

I like to bacon wrap my duck breasts with jalapeno then right before I take them off the grill I brush them with bbq sauce. Also works great with dove. Everynow and then I will put cream cheese in the doves but it gets pretty messy.

 

[TIMC]

Just about anything will taste good if it's cooked right. I have eaten some pretty weird stuff at game dinners here in Texas from snakes to deer. All depends on what in your mind is disgusting.

 

[bensdad]

I like most all of it. Anything that used to have a pulse (well, not people of course) tastes good. The only animal I can recall tasting bad was a longhorn 1/4 beef we got once. I think there was something wrong with the meat. I used to hate wild duck and wild turkey, but I've matured.

 

[cerberus65]

The moose a friend brought back from Alaska and cooked up on his grill was quite tasty.

Some of the best stew I have ever had was mostly bear with some venison thrown in. 'Course the two that cooked that up could make rocks taste great so it's hard to be sure.

 

[MCgunner]

I like to bacon wrap my duck breasts with jalapeno then right before I take them off the grill I brush them with bbq sauce. Also works great with dove. Everynow and then I will put cream cheese in the doves but it gets pretty messy.

I do that, too, like to kabob the meat with the jalapenos and assorted veggies.

I tell ya what, though, nothing wrong with a big ol' goose fillet bacon wrapped, perhaps marinated in buttermilk, but not necessary, and pan fried. The bacon fat helps it out, like a small steak. Mmmmm. I made it the other night so it's sorta fresh on my mind.

 

[wherestheham]

In the south, I'm convinced some of our cooks could fry dirt and make it taste good!

I'll take the vinison and pork.

 

[ChefJeff1]

ELK

 

[MCgunner]

Fried rattler is pretty danged good.

 

[model67a]

venison tenderloin

Gotta vote for venison tenderloin dipped in butter and fried. Fried rabbit or squirrell with fried potatoes, white gravy, corn, and green beans.

 

[model67a]

venison

Dang forgot the biscuits!!!

 

[Kentucky Windage]

I've eaten everything on your list and, assuming a competent wild-game cook is in the kitchen, everything on your list can be great EXCEPT for black bear, IMO. The meat from the last one I shot was Gawd-awful, and I gave much of the meat away. Big mistake, as I eventually discovered. I held a little of the meat back and had it made into teriyaki jerkey -- and it turned out to be the absolute best jerkey I've ever had.

 

[stevelyn]

All of the animals on your list are good eating and there are several more not on that list that are excellent.

However, I will take exception to the rabbit and squirrel and move them to the bottom of the list. Not because they're necessarily bad, because they're not, they'll keep you from starving and they're not a half bad source of protien. But growing up as an Appalachian savage in WV, I've pretty much had my fill of them.

 

[bikerdoc]

Lol, stevelyn,
went to WV to see relatives, come supper time my wife, who sometimes forgets her hillbilly roots, said the stew was delicious - thats right it was rabbit.

 

[MCgunner]

Ate a lotta rabbit and especially squirrel as a kid. Never really got tired of it. Beets, you can keep your beets.

 

[achildofthesky]

When I was 14 at hunt camp in Brookville, Pa we had a daily game dinner that year. Elk (yum), Venison, Pronghorn (OMG good), cubed venison hart ala Bob (I was forced to eat it, then couldn't stop, way good with garlic), gunny sacks of smoked salmon (thanks Satch), some birds of some sort and I f I recall correctly some bear. Wow, what a way to reinforce the benefits of hunting to young hunters...

Be safe

Patty

 

[LoneCoon]

The only thing I've not heard of that was "good eats" was skunk.

Of course, people don't tend to hunt them anyway.

 

[BENELLIMONTE]

Best Tasting Animals I have killed in order:
1) Moose
2) Doe deer
3) Cow Elk
4) Black Bear

 

[lukepriebe]

Don't know why gator wouldn't count. Had a great sampler platter at Cooters in Okeechobee. Gator, frog legs, and 3 different types of turtle. My friends were trying to freak me out but it was delicious.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Hey MCgunner, is rattlesnake chewy like alligator, or tender?

the bear wrapped in bacon sounds pretty good actually.

Well, yeah, shoe leather wrapped in bacon is pretty good even.

You sure do hear mixed reviews of pronghorn & black bear, espec. black bear.

 

[atvalaska]

many moons ago

moose is great ! ate lots of coon growing up a CAT /mountain lion.....werid but good..it eats NOTHING but meat and i ate him late season black bear full of blue berrys ..mmm'good! !!!911 griz full of salmon

 

[HarleyFixer]

I am not personally fond of Bear but then the only one I ate was old. Everything else is great.
Nothing better than baked salmon and elk backstap................yum.

 

[ctgmi]

How can you all forget about Grouse. I know we all have different tastes but for me the Ruffed grouse is at the top of the list.