Have you eaten Oppossum? Armadillo?

[walkin jack]

NO possum
NO racoon
NO armadillo
NO nutria (or any other kind of) rat
NO cat
NO dog
NO horse
Have tasted bear and 'gator tail but wasn't impressed

 

[Rustyt1953]

Dad made us eat many kinds of odd critters. It taught us that if we are starving we know what we can eat.

Having spent time in SEA, like many here, I have eaten my share of the bizarre so by comparison, opossum, raccoon and possum on the half shell, are delicacies.

Horse is considered a treat in many Canadian restaurants. I just can't bring myself to do it.

 

[Salty RI]

Be careful hunting armadillo, you might end up shooting your mother in law.

 

[arjay]

I've read that porcupines are good meat, but that one should leave them for someone who may be lost in the forest and need the meat.

I think I saw that in one of Bradford Angier's books. He was speaking of N. American ones. But I guess it'd apply to African ones.

How would one skin a porcupine!?

 

[chaparrito]

No possums or 'dillos hereabout, doubt I'd try them if there were. The best meat comes from hoofed animals. Grazers and browsers, NOT omnivores and carnivores. I've eaten mountain lion, bear and porcupine. They're all nasty greasy and strong. Never again unless I'm starving TO DEATH. No possums or 'dillos hereabout, doubt I'd try them if there were. Buzzworm is tasty. I ate Chuckwalla lizard once in a desert survival course years ago. Tasted like.....lizard.

 

[Salty RI]

I thought you were going to say chicken.

 

[Stevens]

I hve never eaten armadillo but they do eat them in Central America they are called Cusuco there. I did have some raw camel liver and raw sheep intestine "hors de ouvres" at a client's party in the Sudan years ago. I was the unfortunate "guest of honor' so no way to back out when it was served. Fortunately it was full of "chata", hot peppers, that killed any taste.

 

[Roadtrash]

Well like someone else said if you pen up a possum for awhile and feed it grain and the like it's not too bad. My Mother said they ate a lot of them back in the 20's. Penned them up for a week or so then baked them with sweet potatoes.

 

[Acebow]

I learned to clean coon by pulling and scraping as much fat off the meat as you can. Then I roast it, just like a beef or pork roast, with all the same additions--taters, bell peppers, onions, carrots, etc-- but do it all on a rack so the grease can run off. I've served it to people who thought it was turkey or pork. Got some coon quarters in the freezer now; maybe I'll thaw one up and cook it for church dinner this Sunday....

Beaver, when I can get one, the same thing--just roast it like a, well, roast. Have served that to people who thought it was good beef.

Only tried groundhog once--not many around here--and it was a really sweet meat. Wish there were more to be had.

Squirrel and rabbit isn't 'exotic' here, it's just regular people food. My step-daddy wouldn't eat them, because he had to live on it during the Depression, and (according to him) only 'poor people' ate that stuff. Guess it traumatized him to be considered poor back then.

Possum I've thought about trying, but every time I seriously consider it, I remember the time I found an old cow carcass out in the timber. Took a stand about 50 yards off, hoping to get a shot at a coyote or some crows when they came to scavenge. After a while, noticed some movement under the hide on the belly. Thought it was expanding gasses, and was all set to watch it pop; but instead, a possum chewed its way through the hide and came squeezing out the hole. Kinda messed up any idea of trying to eat road rat. Acebow

 

[REM 3200]

How would one skin a porcupine!?

Very carefully

 

[BC38]

I haven't had any armadillo, but I've had both possum and coon - barbequed. Didn't care much for either one. Both tasted really strong and really greasy.

 

[jrd1976]

Never tried dilla, possum, nutria, coon or turtle soup.
I like beaver.
I was told that spotted owl does taste like chicken.
Breaded and fried deer oysters aren't bad once you get past the thought.
Squirrel and rabbit are down home cookin.
Fried alligator and fried bull-frog legs are on about every seafood buffet.
I want to try rattlesnake some day.

 

[Frank46]

Ah yes Olongapo city and the vendors with their mystery meat on a stick. Found out it was monkey. Little chewy. Dog in hong kong and coon cooked like a stew by a cajun father in law. He had a buddy who trapped them and he would skin them,degut them and sell what was left for eating. My father in law got a little energetic shaking the spice can and that was the hottest stew I ever ate. Frank

 

[oneflycowboy]

Well, I have eaten at a few Chinese restaurants, so perhaps I have.....

 

[Syspila]

Opossum will get you by tho Raccoon when fixed well is tender and tastes like bacon. It goes well in casseroles too.

 

[Harleystoo]

Had to chime in on this thread: ate 'dillo in Huntsville Texas back in '77 = no leprosy yet.

My senior year of college. My friend (an Italian) and I live with 3 girls. We had an arrangement that when one group cooked, the other cleaned up. Well... we went out one night spotlighting and on this rare occasion did not see any deer so we shot a 'dillo just for fun (because it was there; and they die hard too). After a number of brews, we decided to take it back and cook it (vary stringy meat). DeMuccio thought it would be a kick to make spaghetti using the 'dillo and feed it to the girls.
So he puts on a big show of Italian (Mom's recipy) cooking, and then we all sit down with wine, garlic bread, and spaghetti. The girls thought we were such gentlemen preparing them this meal, while we (DeMuccio and I) were giggling like little girls ourselves.
THEN, WE TOLD THEM.
I thought they were going to kill us. And they didn't even clean up!

 

[colkid]

Have you eaten Armadillo

How many texans does it take to eat an armadillo?
Three, one to cut him up and two to watch for cars.

Now remember I love texas, often root for the cowboys.
lol!

 

[zzzippper]

I love possum. I eat possum every chance I get. And the fat is a great water proofing. Go get yourself some possum.

 

[Acebow]

.............The girls thought we were such gentlemen preparing them this meal, while we (DeMuccio and I) were giggling like little girls ourselves.
THEN, WE TOLD THEM.
I thought they were going to kill us. And they didn't even clean up!

And that was your mistake. Never, ever tell..... Acebow

 

[finesse_r]

They are certainly the top of the line in road kill. Given the state of our economy, a good recipe for cooking all of them could prove beneficial.

So far coon is as exotic as I have gotten in my wild life protein diet.