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"Strange" animals, "strange" cuisine
stickbender:
Armadillo, is good. Tastes like pork. We would par boil it, and then dry it off, and season it, with salt, pepper, and garlic, and onion powder, and roll it in flour, and deep fry it. Just be careful handling them, as they are the only animal, other than humans that can contract leprosy (Hanson's Disease). They were used as test animals, in Louisiana, and many escaped. It is mainly contracted from contact with nasal discharge. There have only been a few cases of people getting Leprosy from them. Still not something to take lightly. :o :P My Buddies and I used to catch a couple for camp when we were deer hunting in Gulf Hammock, in north Florida. That is the only time when I would go out of my way to catch one and eat it. But it was quite tasty. Especially with some biscuits, and rice and gravy. As Jerry Clower would say, when asked what that was on the platter on the table, ......."Possum on the half shell". ;) :P ;D ;D
Wayne
JW_Halverson:
I was visiting a village up in Manitoba, close to The Pas. It was during the Trappers Festival and they were putting on a wild game feed. I went down the line turning nothing down, making sure no animal felt that I was prejudiced against it. When I got to the end of the line there was an Aboriginal Canadian about 6'4" tall, 111 lbs, and three teeth...no two meshed together.
He had a huge cast iron kettle he was stirring and he pulled up a ladle and said with glee, "Rat soup!" I stuck out a bowl. He repeated, "RAT soup." I pushed the bowl closer to him and he lost a bit of his smile as he said, "Aw, it's just muskrat."
Since then I have failed to turn down anything. Rattler, dog, smoked porcupine, smoked squirrel, snails, french toast made with ostrich egg and the rest of the egg scrambled on the side, buffalo tongue-kidneys-sweetbreads, and endless pots of stuff my friend Jerry just labels as "Meat?".
Once we were visiting this same subject around the campfire at a Rendezvous. A young feller about 14 was wide eyed as folks traded their favorite recipes for beaver, finally he could hold out no longer. He blurted out, "Someday I am gonna eat a beaver!" I patted him fondly on the shoulder and said softly, "You will, son, someday you will." >:D
steven.nance:
I work on the Cherokee Indian reservation in western NC; folks there eat a lot of bear meat and coon meat. Bear meat is usually canned. For coon meat, I hear it's best to boil it down quite a bit. Haven't yet had either, myself. Rabbit is well loved in classical cuisine, though I hear it's quite a challenge to prepare it well.
stickbender:
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I was at a small ranch owned by a good Friend of mine, and he and his wife, and his Wife's two elderly Aunts were visiting. My Buddy had a bumper sticker on his truck, that said, " Save a tree, eat a Beaver". I don't remember the Aunts names, but one turned to the other, and said look, ____ save a tree, eat a Beaver....the other one said, I wish someone would eat our Beavers! :o :P My Buddy's Wife turned beet red, and I had to go stand by the side of the barn, and my Buddy walked away a few yards, while his Wife's aunt said, oh, yes, they come out of the creek, and eat our hedges, and roses, and all the plants!
Steve; Good ol "Hassenpeffer!" Should be a lot of recipes on the internet for it.
Wayne
Dharma:
Jackrabbits. I've brought the meat to work and only my Navajo friends would eat it. Everyone else was totally freaked out. Traditional Navajos here will eat prairie dogs and I have made mention I'd like to try it the next time they prepare one.
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