Horse and other meats

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

I really think you should rephrase this one before some perv makes some cheap cra...oops! Too late! lol!!!

I say what I mean and mean what I say.

Sometimes.

:p

[Aliantha]

Most Australian marsupials are protected and therefore unavailable for eating. I'm with ducks on the koala thing. I doubt they'd be very tasty.

I've had several of the things mentioned in the list, along with crocodile.

You can get shark meat in most fish and chip shops here. I would have thought it would be the same everywhere.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

You can get shark meat in most fish and chip shops here. I would have thought it would be the same everywhere.

Depends on how close the nearest sharks are I assume... I've eaten shark, but it's not commonly on the menu.

I've eaten quite a few things on the list, but missed out on the larger animals - just not available over here. I'd like to try squirrel - so may are shot/ poisoned as they damage trees, it seems wrong to waste the meat.

I ate horse in France. Can't say I was bothered one way or another. It was in a highly flavoured sauce, so I can't comment on the taste. It was tough as old boots - but I think that was lack of cooking skill/ cheap restaurant.

[Shawnee123]

[barefoot serpent]

In Africa, 'venison' can be any of various antelopes (gemsbok, kudu, etc.). And warthog is really good, too!

[wolf]

I've had bison, venison, bear, and ostrich. No unusual fishy-bits that I can think of offhand, except maybe shark, which isn't all that unusual.

I expect you're not counting the various types of mystery meat that you get from a Chinese Restaurant.

[Sheldonrs]

I had Caribou (reindeer) in Alaska. One of the restaurants we went to had a sick (my kind of) sense of humor and would serve the reindeer sausages with a bright red cherry at the tip of one! lol!!!

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by DanaC

mmm Wild boar. I forgot about wild boar. Good sausages!

Oh yes...yummy!

Off the list, I've had elk once or twice, and lots of bison and venison (as in deer). There's a restaurant near me that serves up venison tartare. Soooo delicious--the best way to have it, I think.

I've also had ostrich (dry and blah), oxtail and gator.

[Kingswood]

Rabbit stew can be tasty, especially if it's from fresh rabbits. Cook it slowly. Your guarantee of freshness for rabbits comes in the form of a ferret and rabbit nets.

I've had crocodile. Tastes sort of like fish or chicken. It's not bad but can be pricey.

Kangaroo tastes a lot like rare beef, but seems that it can only be cooked rare. I prefer my meat to be thoroughly dead before I eat it.

Shark is common here in Oz. Just ask for "flake" at most fish and chip shops and you'll be getting gummy shark.

I haven't had emu, but I would like to try it one day.

Koalas are inedible. They eat gum leaves, they smell like gum leaves, their poop smells like gum leaves. So what do they taste like? Apparently they taste like gum leaves. It would be as if you took a perfectly good steak and marinated it in neat eucalyptus oil for a day or two. Blech.

[Cloud]

I have not eaten emu, but I would like to interject here that emu oil is the BEST thing in the world for skin problems. Marvelous stuff if you don't object to using animal fat.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I have not eaten emu, but I would like to interject here that emu oil is the BEST thing in the world for skin problems. Marvelous stuff if you don't object to using animal fat.

Does it work on stretch marks?

[Undertoad]

J and I had ostrich steaks last night which were supposed to be ostrich medallions. The meat is very much like beef, except stringier and less tasty.

[DanaC]

Rabbit stew can be tasty, especially if it's from fresh rabbits

So is rabbit curry.....I have a vague recollection of Dad cming home once with a freshly killed rabbit.....good curry
Pigeon makes great pie. Though, when i was given it as a kid, my family lied to me and told me it was a chicken pie. They didn't tell me until I'd eaten it that it was woodpigeon (my elder brother was into poaching at the time). After I had recovered from the shock, my bro made me a talon puppet to take to school. Pigeon talon with cotton attached so you could animate its digits. Scared the shit out of this girl who'd been teasing me *grins*

[Spexxvet]

We went to the Collegeville Inn about once a year, when I was young. Mmmmm, apple fritters...

"If you ain't related to it and it ain't poison it's food... an' there's exceptions ta' botha' those rules".
My Pop (grandfather)