They have more guts than me . Literally !

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Kevin the grey

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I,m watching this show on Canadian rivers . Ah some of the locals having a feast . Ah a little girl eating something covered in cornmeal ?
No my friends not cornmeal . She is eating a fish egg sack raw . Just greedily sticking it in with her delicate little fingers with eggs smearing over her face .
I had a buddy of mine who liked fried perch eggs with his eggs in the morning . I think I could handle that though caviar for breakfast might be a bit much .
I visited some Innuit in a hotel room once . They pulled out a mason jar full of seal meat . This was a large glob of pure fat with this tiny vein of meat running through it .

I,ll try most things unless it melts the spoon . You should try unflavoured moose pemmican . There are definitely people with more guts than me .
 
Hunger would drive you to eat just about anything that came along. When the Cajuns were thrown out of Canada they sailed to New Orleans. Nope, the creoles in New Orleans threw them out too. Of course all of south Louisianna is just swamps. The Cajuns learned to eat just about anything. Rice because it would grow in the wetness. Crawfish because they happened to live in the rice fields. Possum, snake, alligator, blackbirds, hawk, etc. Now their cuisine is world famous, and New Orleans takes the credit. Phuey. Hunger is what created that cuisine. Same with the seal blubber. You'd eat it when the time came and your guts would thank you.
 
Andy have you ever eaten nutria? I've heard they aren't bad, but i would have a little bit of a hard time eating a giant rat beaver thing. However, if it be good 'nuff for a Cajan, then I'll give it a shot:) This isn't much that Steely won't eat.

Funny story. My wife and I were spending our college spring break in Louisianna. Sure we did the French Quarter thing, but my favorite thing to do when I'm down that way is to go on swamp tours. Our guide, who wore bib overalls, spoke in a thick accent, and wore no shoes, was telling us about all the different animals and what not. When he got to the nurtia. A tourist raised her hand and asked, "Hey, is that where they get Nutrasweet?":D

Gotta love dem Yanks.

Jake
 
LOL. I never ate nutria rat, but I've shot a bunch. I personally never have eaten possum either. However, I would eat both. Nutria don't eat an unhealthy diet, so I'd bet the meat is quite tasty. Plus since they get as large or larger than racoon, which I have eaten and is very tasty, I'd bet there is plenty meat on one to feed a small family. Stew it in a pressure cooker till it falls from the bone (with rice, of course). That's my favorite way to do squirrel, and I LOVE squirrel.
 
Anonymous said:
Y'all bug eyed monsters and little green men un your YOU-FOES doan' land yueselves in Lousiana or y'all end up in a Cajun Bull-you-base.
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Grey soup - Yummmmmmm.
 
Vittels is Vittels?


I'll try anything as long as I don't have to prepare it from the dead. Possums are off my list of willingness to prepare. So are rattlesnakes. I did try a jack rabbit once.



munk
 
When Chagnon tried to film a village festival of the Yanomamo, his cameraman kept vomiting.
The Yanomamo feasted on a large pig that they buried for a week. Uncooked, just buried and left to putrify, so as to make it easier to chew, I suppose.

There are two ways to make meat tender enough to eat it without a knife: cook it or let it rot.

the feasted on a big, rotten pig...
 
I heard possums are a greasy meat. Anyone know if there is any truth to that?? I wouldn't eat one unless it was way out in the boonies. I have seen what the possums eat out of the trash cans around here. You are what you eat, and I don't wanna eat that.

I'm not saying i wouldn't eat them in a starvation situation, but intestines and eyeballs are off the menu for me. I'm a texture guy. Nothing squishy or jelly filled or anything that ever contained poop. Hearts, livers, etc. All fine by me. Any of you zomibes ever have a brain sandwich? We have a street festival here every october (i'm told it's the second largest in the country next to all the craziness that goes on in N.O.;)). Anyway, brain sandwiches are also one of the staple foods sold at the booths. I've tried it, but didn't like the taste.

Jake
 
Dang. New to me. I've had rattlesnake a few times. Yummy. One girl I dated invited me to dinner. Her dad served rattlesnake thinking I would run for the hills. No dice. After that we got along fine, her dad and me. A week later we broke up. C'est la vie.
 
Andy I have to agree with you . Appetite makes the best sauce .
I admit that all the literature I,ve read and all the shows based on Cajun style living and music has given me a strong hankering to stroll down there one day . Cajun influence would spice up any cooking show and who can deny a movie based on that way of life or just having a Cajun in the cast makes it much more interesting . Just the sing song accent alone would boost the ratings ten points ! L:O:L

Being of Irish blood that foot stomping style of music gets my blood temperature up a notch or two . If my bow would stand the test maybe I could even get a gator on the grill ! L:O:L You need some high poundage for those suckers .

As for Nutria I hear it tastes like Marmot which as we all know tastes just like chicken ! L:O:L
 
I went on a "gator hunt" once. First day we set out lines. Late that evening we set out with a spotlight and a 38 snub nose pistol. It was a shoot the gator and get it into the boat and haul ass kinda "hunt." My old mawmaw cleaned that gator tail up so skillfully too. Fat is the killer for gator tail, and she spent considerable time getting as much off as she could. She also knew just where to slit it to get the glands out. Yummy.
 
Kevin the grey said:
I,m watching this show on Canadian rivers . Ah some of the locals having a feast . Ah a little girl eating something covered in cornmeal ?
No my friends not cornmeal . She is eating a fish egg sack raw . Just greedily sticking it in with her delicate little fingers with eggs smearing over her face .
I had a buddy of mine who liked fried perch eggs with his eggs in the morning . I think I could handle that though caviar for breakfast might be a bit much .
I visited some Innuit in a hotel room once . They pulled out a mason jar full of seal meat . This was a large glob of pure fat with this tiny vein of meat running through it .

I,ll try most things unless it melts the spoon . You should try unflavoured moose pemmican . There are definitely people with more guts than me .
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Salmon roe....Yumm....prefer the japanese style where they marinate it those with soya sauce 1st. :)

About some of the strange food they serve across the border in China........:barf:

Sends shivers up my spine.....:o
 
Okay, guys, you may think I am making some of this up, but I am not.

Andy is right in one regards to one thing here -- Cajun food is the cuisine of deprevation, developed because folks didn't have much, and what they had was of such questionable quality, they had to learn to prepare it with strong spices and sauces to make it more palatable.

Same is true of tradional French food, by the way.

But as for nutria... They are, as Andy has said, a rat. A big one. And the swamps of southern Louisiana are literally being eaten away by them. So, that great state, in all its wisdom, sent out a plea to famous Cajun/Creole chefs to find a way to make them palatable. Good logic -- make a food crop out of your chief pest?

Problem is, they are very nearly inedible. Tough, greasy, and something else that I wouldn't even call "gamey." Awful. Tried them fried, blackened, roasted and stewed -- hey authentic swamp food, right?

Never again. And for the record, if a Cajun can't make it taste good, it probably can't be done.
 
brokenhallelujah said:
...Problem is, they are very nearly inedible. Tough, greasy, and something else that I wouldn't even call "gamey." Awful...
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Sounds like either chili fixins or mass marketing to those folks with the big yellow bent signs.
 
I lived in the Philippines for a few years back when I was in college. I was invited by some new friends to visit their house and have a meal. When they showed me what was for lunch, it was a huge pot of just chicken feet. No joke! I went to the Philippines knowing that after I leave I may never come back so I wanted to experience as much as I could. I just did what they did with the feet. You eat the skin and gnaw off the toes.
It really isn't that bad.
Taste like chicken!
 
deathshead said:
I lived in the Philippines for a few years back when I was in college. I was invited by some new friends to visit their house and have a meal. When they showed me what was for lunch, it was a huge pot of just chicken feet. No joke! I went to the Philippines knowing that after I leave I may never come back so I wanted to experience as much as I could. I just did what they did with the feet. You eat the skin and gnaw off the toes.
It really isn't that bad.
Taste like chicken!
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Better then chicken ! :D With all that gellatin stuff as well. :D
 
Last year I took a trip to Peru for a few months, the food down there blew my mind. It ran the whole gamut from amazing seafood (ceviche:raw fish marinated in lime and chilis tossed with red onion with yucca and yam on the side) to some wierd stuff in the highlands and the jungle.

In the highlands I had guinnie pig a couple of times first time was awful in a pretty expensive restaraunt it was partialy quartered, flattened under a rock and deep fried, I've never eaten at KFC but my girlfreind said that is what it was like. The second time was in a tiny village out in the mountains, had it in a stew, it was great.

In the jungle there was some pretty strange stuff. Turtle, pirrana, snake, just avoided monkey (really didnt want to eat that). I highly recomend pirrana fishing, pretty exciting, especialy trying to get them off the hook.

I've got to disagree on the chicken feet astrodada, I found them bareable but not tasty by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe it was just sucking chicken toes that turned me off.

Gord
 
brokenhallelujah said:
...Problem is, they are very nearly inedible. Tough, greasy, and something else that I wouldn't even call "gamey." Awful...
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Sounds like either chili fixins or mass marketing to those folks with the big yellow bent signs.
 
brokenhallelujah said:
Never again. And for the record, if a Cajun can't make it taste good, it probably can't be done.
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Amen. You gotta try a blackbird gumbo to believe it.

Like I said, I've never eaten it. Once my extended family was on vacation together in my grandads RV. We stopped at his buddy's house on a lake in Louisianna. The nutrias were eating away the land supporting his boat house. He told me he'd give me 5 dollars for every one I shot with a 22 he kept by the door. My grandad immediately told him that was a mistake. First morning I shot 12. Many of the bodies just sank as they swum. He didn't buy it, but my grandad assured him I could really shoot well. Next morning he got up with me and I shot 10 more in just a few minutes. He couldn't believe it as he shelled out the $110. Grandad just laughed and laughed about it.
 
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