Seems like with climate change the gators, crocs and giant pythons will be eating people across the southern half of the US. So why don't we start eating them more?
Do you enjoy gator meat? Would you at least try it?
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| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 20, 2022 2:53 PM |
That is not how we've ever fixed it. I'm not a big fan of anything but sausage, because of a gamey strangeness that can creep in. Never thought of it as a big deal but I understand the audacious novelty of it. And the US does have too many alligators. Except culinarily they need to be raised in a farmed setting.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 20, 2022 1:16 AM |
At least gators and crocs belong here. If De Santis paid a fortune to every crazy Florida Man and Woman for every Python they killed and made the importing of them into FL a felony, I would personally campaign for him.
Also, I tasted gator before at a UofSC Vs. Florida tailgate, but I wasn't really an adventurous eater at the time, so I just took a bite and downed it with a shot of fireball.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 20, 2022 1:18 AM |
That doesn't look appetizing to me. Considering what gaters eat in the wild...maybe a human or two, I don't think so. Maybe a tiny morsel....if my arm was twisted.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 20, 2022 1:19 AM |
I tried it years ago in a French restaurant (in Calif, not France). As I recall, it was served with a light creamy herb sauce and had the texture of poached white chicken, pretty much just tasted like the cilantro in the sauce. Nothing special but not bad.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 20, 2022 1:20 AM |
I wish more people enjoyed it. Maybe I wouldn't be dead.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 20, 2022 1:22 AM |
It is really not that good and a bucket list food to me. I had it once. Same with armadillo. No seconds on either.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 20, 2022 1:23 AM |
No reptiles! š¤¢
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 20, 2022 1:29 AM |
A friend of mine had it when we were in a restaurant in New Orleans years ago, and I gave it a try.
The texture and taste reminded me of swordfish.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 20, 2022 1:33 AM |
I tried some fried alligator nuggets from a Cajun food place years ago. I recall the texture being kind of tough but the taste wasn't terrible.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 20, 2022 4:35 AM |
I tried fried alligator at the Bass Pro Shops restaurant, kinda tasted like chicken. My neighbor puts on a huge 4th of July block party & bbqs a whole croc or gator.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 20, 2022 5:42 AM |
There was a Cajun restaurant on Seventh Avenue in Chelsea in the 1980s and 1990s that had this as a regular menu item and I remember thinking it tasted like rabbit.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 20, 2022 5:59 AM |
R10, where does your neighbor get it?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 20, 2022 1:06 PM |
Don't some reptiles host deadly viruses and bacteria?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 20, 2022 2:53 PM |