Horse and other meats
 

I ran into this article in Time. It really does bring up the point that it's silly to discriminate on which of our fellow mammals we decide to eat.

So far my biggest turn off of the big 3 meats (beef,lamb,pork) was some goat at an Indian restaurant and some venison. I've never tried rabbit, either. I did once have a bisonburger.

I understand goat consumption in the US is on the rise, at least in part because it is a popular meat in almost every other part of the world.

Has anyone tried any red meats other than BLP?

Ah, I forgot to vote for goat. I've had goat, venison, elk, bison, antelope, rattlesnake, ostrich, moose... I think that's about it.

Does shark count as an "other meat?" I've had that too.

A really good venison steak is a great thing. I've only et farmed.

I've had rattlesnake and also bear. There used to be a restaurant round here that enjoyed serving such things, but it's gone.

LOL@ BEAVER

Visited New Zealand years ago. In addition to the millions of sheep everywhere, you would occasionally see a field witha VERY tall fence. In that field were hundreds of beautiful deer. Had delicious venison there.

I think I had ostrich once. I didn't include it for lack of room and because I decided to stick to mammals.

BTW, New Zealand and Australia are host to a lot of unusual mammals. Over in the US some people eat bears. Do any Aussies or Kiwis eat koalas, platypuses, etc?

alligator is amazing

Smart move. Once you open it up to non-mammals, the list gets long.
Lots of sea foods out there.

Also, rattlesnake, frog, snails, ostrich to name a few for me.

Koala would taste like shyte I'm tipping, considering they only eat eucalyptus leaves.

When they pee on your car, it reeks, so i cant imagine their meat being particularly tasty.

Platypus - not bloody likely!! They are hard enough to find as it is!!

I have heard of Wombat stew, never tasted it though. Since the buggers can flip a car, or tear the undercarriage out if you hit them, I would suggest a REALLY slow cooked stew.

I've had crocodile, ostrich, emu, snake, stingray, eel but never beaver ;)

Yeah, beavertail stew rather ran out of popularity about the time in the nineteenth century that the US frontier ran low on beavers. The fashion for hats of beaver fur felt has been attributed directly to Beau Brummel; we can blame him.

I've had ostrich burger -- the effect is that of beefy bird. Rattlesnake too, which comes off like some sort of landlocked fish. Rabbit tastes like mammalian chicken -- yet another other white meat. It runs to toughness and should be tamed by long braising or simmering type recipes. And frog legs -- aquatic chicken, with very un-chicken anatomy to the slender bones. Escargot -- proteinaceous garlic butter, most unctuous. Another one for shark, but I've quit eating shark and indeed am slow to eat ocean fish any more.

Oh, yes, and Prairie Oysters, which taste exactly like... fried thingies.

There's rumor of the Abos eating stewed koala solely as a cure for colds, the creature itself not presenting much more hunting challenge than the porcupine, which was reserved as food during famine by the Amerindians, to be eaten only when hunger was greater than embarrassment at walking up to the slow-moving creatures to knock them in the head with a big stick.

Wild boar :drool: !

Yep, I also forgot wild boar. Very tasty.
A friend of ours has Meatfest every year. It's... interesting. (His site seems to crash FF tho. Not cool.) :elkgrin:

Remember -

3 lbs. venison to 1 lbs. 80% lean ground beef.
Keeps the venison moist while cooking it.

Bobcat Goldthwait: They keep saying "it tastes just like chicken. It tastes just like chicken" so buy a f*cking chicken, it's the cheapest f*cking meat you can buy.