baymule
Garden Master
In this thread, anything that is not pork, beef, lamb or chicken AKA mainstream food, will be considered weird. So tell us all about your food adventures!
Armadillo. I shot 'em and didn't want the meat to go to waste, so I took them home. I found out that they are hard to skin. I cut along the shell at the belly, stepped on each side of the shell and grabbed the tail. Lifting the tail, I kept cutting along the shell until I got the carcass loose. Then I gutted it and washed it off. Tossed 'em on the BBQ pit and cooked them. They were tender and tasted sorta like pork. Not bad. In fact, during the depression, they were called Hoover Hogs, after President Hoover, or poor man pigs.
Squirrel. It's best to shoot them in the head with a 22, so you don't mess up the meat. I have bitten lead BB's before, from a shotgun and I much prefer blowing their little heads off. My Grandmother would fry the heads and eat the brains, but I couldn't get past their teeth sticking out of the crusty breading.
Snake. I have shot them, skinned and gutted them and fried them. No, doesn't taste like chicken. Snake tastes more like frog legs. It's white meat and you gotta get a big snake to get much meat.
Alligator. There are places where alligator is not considered weird food. Alligator is good, taste is close to snake/frog legs. Never hunted alligators, but have caught the baby ones and played with them before setting them loose.
Deer. Not a weird food to me, but it's not grocery store meat. I have shot, skinned, gutted, quartered and processed deer. I've made pan sausage and stuffed, smoked sausage. Delicious. It's good fried and makes great burger meat.
Raccoon. It was just ok. I didn't kill or cook it.
Frog Legs. I didn't gig them, but I fried them. You gotta cut the leaders or tendons behind the knee or they jump out of the pan.
Crawfish. I eat the tails, but I don't suck the heads.
That's all I can think of right now.
Ok, ya'll cut loose, what have you eaten or turned down and refused to eat?
Armadillo. I shot 'em and didn't want the meat to go to waste, so I took them home. I found out that they are hard to skin. I cut along the shell at the belly, stepped on each side of the shell and grabbed the tail. Lifting the tail, I kept cutting along the shell until I got the carcass loose. Then I gutted it and washed it off. Tossed 'em on the BBQ pit and cooked them. They were tender and tasted sorta like pork. Not bad. In fact, during the depression, they were called Hoover Hogs, after President Hoover, or poor man pigs.
Squirrel. It's best to shoot them in the head with a 22, so you don't mess up the meat. I have bitten lead BB's before, from a shotgun and I much prefer blowing their little heads off. My Grandmother would fry the heads and eat the brains, but I couldn't get past their teeth sticking out of the crusty breading.
Snake. I have shot them, skinned and gutted them and fried them. No, doesn't taste like chicken. Snake tastes more like frog legs. It's white meat and you gotta get a big snake to get much meat.
Alligator. There are places where alligator is not considered weird food. Alligator is good, taste is close to snake/frog legs. Never hunted alligators, but have caught the baby ones and played with them before setting them loose.
Deer. Not a weird food to me, but it's not grocery store meat. I have shot, skinned, gutted, quartered and processed deer. I've made pan sausage and stuffed, smoked sausage. Delicious. It's good fried and makes great burger meat.
Raccoon. It was just ok. I didn't kill or cook it.
Frog Legs. I didn't gig them, but I fried them. You gotta cut the leaders or tendons behind the knee or they jump out of the pan.
Crawfish. I eat the tails, but I don't suck the heads.
That's all I can think of right now.
Ok, ya'll cut loose, what have you eaten or turned down and refused to eat?
Deer is a staple around our house. I like fishing--have had bass, bluegill, walleye, catfish, trout. DH loves frog legs. His family used to eat snapping turtle too. Not I... 
