Would you eat or have you eaten...
 

Goat?
Rabbit?
Emu?
Racoon?
Rabbit?
Opossum?
Bear?
Snake?
Other game/wild meats?

And why or why not?

Also what part of the country are you in (or did you grow up in) if you do eat game meats.

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How about gator????

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I've eaten: river turtle, gator, frog legs, snails, deer/stag

what I won't eat: dog, horse, veal

I ate veal once by accident in Italy, I thought I ordered scallops.

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i've eaten goat, veal and pig's feet. my mother has eaten rabbit. all delicacies in puerto rico. pig's feet no longer sold in supermarkets. must be special order.

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Probably
Yes
No
Yes
Not ever
Nope
No

I've eaten a wild boar hog a few hours after granny shot him down with a straight prejudice. And he was delicious! Also eaten plenty of deer, some squirrel, some yard chicken. Most of this was eaten in my native Arkansas.

Had veal and lamb here in B'Ham. NOT impressed with the veal.

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My dad was a hunter so I have eaten
rabbit (not a favorite)
venison (LOVE it!)
bear (too greasy)
boar (ok)
squirrel (edible, but again, not a favorite)
possum (YUCK!!)
pheasant (LOVE it!)
wild turkey (good)
duck (another not a favorite)
moose (ok)
horse (we were kids and very, very poor one winter. My parents found a source of horsemeat that could be purchased for a little bit of nothing - definitely not a legal purchase, but it got us thru. you do what you have to do to feed your family, I guess. We didn't know until years later what we had eaten)

We had a farm in our area that sold ostrich meat for a number of years. We ate lots of that at our house. It's extremely low in fat but very tasty. It wasn't cheap, but it was so good FOR you :)

Our church does a wild game dinner every year so because of that, I've also eaten walrus, gator, and a number of other things I would never had the opportunity to taste any other way.

Why do you ask? I'm curious :)

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Elk will put you off beef forever;
surprised it didn't make the list?

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Because I'm curious too... We farm, hunt, trap, fish and do a lot of barter which has put everything on that list (and many things that aren't) on our table. Most people are totally freaked out by the way we eat. If I have something extra for lunch (we often pot-luck or trade at my job) everyone insists on knowing what it is before they eat it. Many things I eat seem to cause extreme 'gross out'... and it happened today again over some goat tacos. Lots of 'ummm... that smells delicious' until I said they were cabrito.

I also horrified everyone around me when my 1,300 pound gelding died suddenly. I wanted to process him for dog food. There was not a soul who did not think I was disgusting for that... So I paid $800 to have a backhoe bury him and the worms got all that good meat.

I'm not going to claim I liked all the things I've eaten... the bear meat was from Alaska and was greasy and fishy-not-in-a-good-way and the 'possum tasted trashy like garbage fed pork.

So I was just wanting to know if there are others like me or where most of you draw the line.

And the question about where you live... I expected this food snob attitude in my native Los Angeles but I am surprised it is so common in Texas.

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ooooh! One of my favorite things at fair time is the gator sausage! Love frog legs and go gigging regularly. Had softshell turtle once... it was OK, not great. Never eaten a snail but wonder if they are slimy which is the only texture I struggle with.

If you don't mind saying, why would you not eat the animals you've listed as nos (really I don't have to ask about the dog :))

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Hmm, you didn't strike me as the type to waste
1/2 ton of premium dog food...

and yes, snails are slimy; they are like the softest part
of a clam.

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I try to stay with the three basic food groups.
Pork, chicken, and beef.
I have eaten wild duck, not sure about some of the others on your list.

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Cindy you need to try gator, thats some good eating!

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I think I would eat any of the list if I was hungry enough. So I won't rule anything out.

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I think I might like gator.

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I've eaten gator. It wasn't bad at all. Nothing like I expected - I expected it to be very fishy, which it wasn't.

I've also had frog legs. My dad and mom and dad's sister and her husband used to go fishing all night and would often come home with several frogs. My grandma would fry them up for us. We would laugh at them jumping around in the pan.

We only had possum once. My mom had cooked it up and bbq'd it. When we got home from school, the sandwiches were waiting for us for snack. We all grabbed one and were all excited to get BBQ beef for a snack! Till we tasted it. Then we almost spit it out. We told her there "something really wrong with this cow". LOL

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I will eat just about anything....lol....

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I will TRY just about anything. However, there are some things I will never, ever eat or drink: potatoes (without skins. I'll eat them if they have skins on them sometimes), peas, beans and milk. all those things are just plain nasty.

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I'll eat pork, chicken, beef, turkey, and venison.

I probably could be a vegetarian.

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Exactly! No BBQ or re fried beans for me. I also haven't had a glass of milk in 25 years and Lord willing, will go another 50.

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I think I've had goat and rabbit but if not would be willing to try, along with everything else on the list. Nothing cries out "Oh ick!" when I look at it.

And if Possum was good enough for her and her clan, it MUST be good. :)
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I have had a variety of different meats but one I didn't see mentioned was kangaroo.

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I grew up in the mid-west hunting and eating with much enthusiasm deer, dove, frog, rabbit and squirrel. I lived in a french settlement so turtle and muskrat were big. Thumbs up for turtle, thumbs way down for muskrat. Muskrat is dark meat and tastes a lot like sea weed smells... gross. I've had black bear sausage(yummy with course mustard), elk, moose and gator tail. I do love the veal too.

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We butcher our calves as 'rose veal' which is never confined but is a young steer that is still nursing. They live a very natural life, being kept with their momma cow and getting plenty of fresh grass and sunshine.

Very tender and tasty.

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and...now Im hungry. We love the fresh butchered meat.

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Bacon, bacon, bacon. I LOVE bacon!!

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I have eaten rabbit, squirrel, gator, frog legs and racoon in the US. In South Africa I ate ostrich (yes, it tastes like chicken), eland (YUM), zebra (YUCK), kudu sausage (not a big fan, but okay) and my favorite was giraffe.

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I always thing about that Sylvester cartoon with the Kangaroo and the Rat...

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"Oh Father.... What will I ever tell my friends in troop 12."

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I have eaten:

Rabbit
Racoon
Opossum
Snake
Squirrel
Gar
Deer
Buffulo
Quail
Duck

I love wild game. Most of my eating of this was when I was young and lived at home. Dad was the gamehunter and provided for us. My husband was not so much a hunter or fisherman.

I live the taste of wild game. And the way that my mom used to prepare it.

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I got your bacon sista! Here are a few of my hogs on the hoof.


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And here is one at processing.

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Just look at all that lard!! Do you render it out and use that to cook with, Titus? My mom always did when we were kids. I loved the little pieces that came to the top. I think they were cracklin's? DELICIOUS!!

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Blue crabs every weekend at our house

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Yes I have a huge cast iron cauldron for lard rendering. It's so easy. I just keep the fat in the freezer 'till we get our first cold day then render it all down, strain it through a screen and put in clean mason jars and put lids and rings. It's so hot is self seals and lasts years. I use it to fry and I use the leaf-lard to make pie crusts. I only cook with lard, butter, olive oil and coconut oil. But for high heat or deep frying it's lard.

And yes those delicious little pieces are cracklins... or chicharrón if you share my heritage.

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I'm just beaming with pride at AFF... you guys are such good eaters!:yourock

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From Louisiana...I'll eat anything. Don't particularly like rabbit though. By the way...fried gator tail is manna from the gods.

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Best red meat I've ever tasted was boar burgers. I dunno if wild though, it didn't have a gamey flavor...

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I never liked fish growing up but it has become one of my favorite "meats" the past 10-12 years. Talapia is one of my favs.

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You probably don't want to know what all I have eaten...truth be told, I might want to know what all I have eaten.

Um, is cabrito goat or lamb?


Doe, a deer

Buffalo

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Goat... aren't you Hispanic?