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Started by bigred1951, August 23, 2017, 12:22:16 PM

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sawguy21

Buffalo is good but needs fat added to cook, it is very dry and fine grained. Sure makes good burgers. I like elk too but again needs fat added. Had mountain lion at a fish and game banquet, it was quite tasty.
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TKehl

I think WV sawmiller wins.  I'm pretty open to eating a lot of things.  A few I would turn down.  Armadillo was the only one I saw that made me  :o!

I've had elk, antelope, alligator, moose, buffalo, rocky mountain oysters, real oysters, squid, octopus, eels, crab, goose, goat, coon, squirrel, roadkill turkey, and all the normal wild and tame stuff.  I don't think the coon was cooked right, but it was the end of the game dinner and may have been in the warming tray too long.  Would try it again. 

The mountain oysters were the most interesting.  They were fried for lunch for the farmer I was working for.  Halfway through the meal he asked if I liked the beef nuggets.  I said yes, then he told me what they were.  I took a look at my fork and thought, "well, they've been good this far", and kept eating.   :D

I'd try possom just to say I did, but don't want to cook one just to say I did.   :D

I'd like to try snake. 
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WDH

I have had it, but, I have given up on rattlesnake.  It can smell musky as you bring the fork to your mouth  :).  That is a smell in nature that I usually shy away from  :-\. 
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ppine

Game meats all are lower in fat than domestic animals. There are two great ways to cook elk and buffalo. The best cuts can be grilled and served pretty rare.  A marinade and basting works well. For everythng else I like to cook them in a Dutch oven on a fire with a lot of liquid like apple juice, wine, or beer at low heat.
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ppine,

   My favorite when using a Dutch oven is use mushroom soup as a base/gravy. We use it a lot with venison.
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Chris Burchfield

I've eaten chocolate covered ants, fried grasshopper, bear, bbq beaver about as exotic from southern raising.  Beef, lamb, deer, gator, fish (bass, catfish, brim, perch, mahi-mahi, swordfish & shark.)
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Al_Smith

My father was a deer hunter so I grew up on venison .Not good Ohio corn fed white tail .Colorado mule deer that eat sage brush,kinda gamey.
Other than that squirrel,rabbit ,pheasant,frogs,turtles ,crawdads ,a muskrat once,groundhog,quail ,wild duck,goose .

gspren

   I've had most of what's mentioned other than the cat type critters. I will say if you only try something once it's not fair to say it's no good as I've had bear I didn't like and bear I thought was great, same for a few other things. let an Angus bull get old enough to vote and he won't be fit to eat either. When in Subic Bay, Phillipines during the Viet Nam era I had "meat on a stick" from sidewalk venders that may have been monkey or ??, but after a few beers it wasn't bad.
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Ianab

Well, we have now tried Crocodile.

Caught up with my younger son in Wellington last night, that's about 4 hours away, so we don't get to see him that often. Anyway, not knowing the city we ask him where he wanted to go for tea. He consulted his workmates and suggested a pizza and bar place on the waterfront. It wasn't cheap, but at least the pizza and service was good. Anyway, scanning the menu Lil spies Crocodile, marinated in tequila and lime, on a pizza. She decided we had to tick that one off the list, and ordered one.

Made a perfectly good pizza, although the croc chunks were a bit chewy.

They also had a "make your own" option for the kids, where they bought out a small base, and little bowls ingredients. Taylor and Lara had a ball loading up ingredients, then they took it away and cooked it. It was kids ingredients, ham, chicken, tomato, onion and of course pineapple. But if they didn't want onion, they didn't have to put it on.
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sandhills

A small town 10 miles away (Petersburg) has an annual event called "Bash in the burg", they have a rib smoking contest and live music plus a few other activities.  The cookers also get a mystery meat to cook and get judged on that also, alligator was the meat last time we went, they hand out samples all night, sort of a peoples choice sort of thing.  Some did good with it, others turned it into leather, but I didn't mind the better cooked stuff.

tree-farmer

All this makes me think of the story about the diffrence between northern zoo's and southern ones. Both have descriptions of the animal, the southern ones list serving suggestions :D
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coxy


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I married a girl from Newfoundland, Canada. That fact is directly responsible for what I consider my most unusual dining options.

First, I've had moose several times. The better the cook, the better the moose tasted.

Second, I've had pickled pork tongues. They're "pickled" in salt-brine and are actually very good, much like ham.

Third, I've had cod-fish tongues. Battered and fried they are delicious.

Lastly, I turned down the chance to have seal "flippers". My mother-in-law loves them but neither my wife or I can even stand to be in the house when they're being prepared.

coxy

I remember doing pickled pork tongue they where in the jar for about 2 months and said to my buddy lets open a jar of them we started to eat one and it was like the tongue was biting you back after we looked at them we realized we for got to peel the skin off them before putting them in the jar  :o :D that's what happens when to many adult beverages are involved   :D     

moose207

Havent had much of the weird stuff but i like moose over bear, bear is not very good unless you get all the fat off when cutting it up. My stepdad guy growing up was\is a maine guide and im pretty sure if you could kill it he would make it into jerky.
Caribou has to be my favorite wild game but moose buger\ saugage sos is hard to beat!
I was always told that beaver tail was very popular amoung the loggers and trappers up north, apparently after you skin the tail its just like a steak.
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Logger RK

A trapper friend of mine tells me,usually the raccoon carcasses don't get ate by the critters. He say if they don't eat them,he won't. But I guess if there's a good way to cook them maybe. And I would image older ones wouldn't be as good.

barbender

I ate some porcupine once. I wouldn't recommend it👎
Too many irons in the fire

sawguy21

I am sure if you were hungry enough you wouldn't be picky. I once had bear, I didn't particularly like it but we were a long way from home or the nearest restaurant so I managed to get it down. It might be alright properly cooked
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Magicman

In 1973 a rancher in Wyoming told me that it once was illegal to kill a porky because it was deemed as a food source that a person in a survival situation could easily kill with a stick.  I think that he was glad that he had never been in a survival situation.   :-X
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bigred1951

I'm surprised this has had a lot of posts. It's fun reading about everyone different experiences. Seen that this thread was moved to the woodshed for what I don't know but it's now still here? So much talk about food now I'm hungry

LeeB

I saw that too and couldn't figure it out or why. Maybe the guy who moved it will give us a clue.
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thecfarm

I betcha the guy pressed a wrong button.  :)   I saw that too and than a few minutes it was back. I was upset,because this is a good thread and did not want to see it gone.
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WDH

OK.  I am the culprit.  There was a new member that I approved.  He immediately posted in this thread about removing rabid raccoons and provided a link to his website promoting his raccoon removal business.  Joining the FF to advertise for your business free is no allowed.  So, I wanted to remove his post as is protocol, but instead of just removing that post, I had a senior moment and removed the entire thread, which sent it to the Woodshed.  Realizing the mistake, I moved it back to the Food board where it should have stayed and then removed the post that I originally intended to remove in the first place  :-[. 
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bigred1951

So it's safe to say I've been to the dark dreaded wood shed and made it out unscathed 🙂

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Quote from: bigred1951 on September 24, 2017, 08:07:22 AM
So it's safe to say I've been to the dark dreaded wood shed and made it out unscathed 🙂

Yes, but you now have a chip in you for tracking purposes.  ;D
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