Gravatar Raccoon is very good eats! It was a rare treat when I was a kid, and even rarer now :-( Squirrels and rabbits are probably in the same category, but raccoon is by far the best.

Bear is good, a bit greasy, but I like the flavor. The old Mountain Men usually said that cougar was the best eating meat.

Snapping turtle is also very good, with several flavors in the meat, very unusual, as most animals pretty much taste the same throughout, except for something like the dark and light meet of some birds. "Turtle feeds" are pretty common in the spring in rural areas.

Rattle snake is also a tasty "exotic" food that most would never consider eating, but you would probably enjoy it if you didn't know what it was you were eating, the same can be said about venison, most people that say they don't like it has never had it, or at least has never had it cooked right.

The really freaky thing about cooking reptiles and amphibians is that even after they are long dead, they will 'twitch' when touched or when put into a hot frying pan, that can be a bit unnerving for some people LOL.

Dog is something that I have never eaten, and probably wouldn't if I knew what it was, but in many cultures, including some Native American tribes and many Asian countries, it is a common food.

It is actually interesting to think of what one culture things of as acceptable foods, another would think detestable. Think about that pork chop you had last week, to a Muslim or Jew, it is a sin to eat that unclean meat. We like a good T-bone, but in India, the cow is sacred. Many Native American tribes ate a lot of fish, but the Navajo and Apache tribes considered fish to be unfit to eat. Heck, some cultures once thought the eating of human flesh was acceptable, and for some, a sacred ritual.

Okay, now I think I went and over-thought this, I better shut up now


Gravatar I'm not dipping into anything homemade by you two. I'd be just fine in a Matrix-like world, where everything tastes like chicken.




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