Ok, just watched MeatEater Steven Renella shot and bbq a coyote He said it aint bad kinda like liver or a diver duck. Anyone had this experience?

Ok, just watched MeatEater Steven Renella shot and bbq a coyote He said it aint bad kinda like liver or a diver duck. Anyone had this experience?

Never heard of MeatEater Steven Renella. I'm guessing it's on one of the outhouse channels?

Never mind, it's Rinella....I found him on Google. He can have my share of coyote.

Does he eat beaver too?

As a kid growing up I spent a lot of my summer times living on Native American Indian reservations in New Mexico (Aunt & Uncle were teachers on them).

One of the many times that I was invited to, and had meals with my friends on the res we ate dog. They didn't tell me it was dog until we were done. It wasn't bad, but not something I would want to eat if there was venison, beef, poultry, or cedar bark handy.

Rick

I love Beaver

Dont knock beaver till ya try it. Makes a mighty fine bbq too. Coyote couldnt be much different than dog, think I will pass on the dog. Armadillo sucks btw not worth the tryn plus the next six months you keep worrying about a toe falling off or sores that wont heal.

Mmmm, beaver....

No dog for me, will let you all have them.

Great show, and he is a great writer as well, a real hunter and an asset to our sport. Not sure about eating the coyote though...haven't seen that episode.

Never been that hungry, hope I never am.

"Meats meat when yer in the mountains"

Beavers on the spit, complete with heads and tails

Steve is a great spokesman deserved of my respect but no tote for me thank you.

i eat both kinda beaver.,.

I have eaten dog several times in Korea. My cousin use to eat pigeons when we were younger. Cant be any worse than eating a nasty chicken.

Almost any animal is potential table fare when times are tough.

Also,you may have eaten many things ,not even knowing what it was. I spent 7 years in a food production facility in Ohio working the line. Seen many things go into the hopper that wasnt meat! Many people ate it unknowingly.

Seen a kid get 4 fingers cut off and diced up. Never found them. USDA tagged off the vat collecting the diced meat, set in a cooler for days. One Sunday I was working the lift and was asked to pull it out for inspection. They inspected it, ran it thru a metal detector and sent it out on frozen food. Oh by the way, did I tell you the fingers were never found?

Point being seasoned and cooked correctly you could eat your cousin Fred, not saying you'd want too (but you may not know it was him on your burger bun)(:^>)

A few years ago my Dad slow cooked a beaver in the crock pot with some vegetables and it was delicious. I got my girlfriend, now wife, to try some by telling her it was chicken. After taking a few bites and really enjoying it, I said, so how does that beaver taste? It was funny until I got smacked upside the head........think of the jokes I have used for this one over the last few years!!! If you cook a beaver just right it can be very enjoyable.

So does beaver taste hickory smoked no matter how it's cooked? :))

The ones I have ate didn't have a hickory taste to it at all. I Really can't describe the taste....

Barbaqued Beaver is very good !!! Had a buddie who had a trap line, te it couple of times a year. (get your minds out of the gutter, you know what I'm talking about !)

Had spaghetti and beaver balls when I was at bear camp in Maine. We were halfway through the meal when the head guide announced this to everyone at the table. I caught two partial mouthfuls from the guys across from me!. We were laughing ourselves stupid for a few minutes there. LOL!

i trapped coyote for years. skinned hundreds of them. wouldn't eat one. they carry so many diseases in their blood , meat, gut, and parasites that there are many things better. some people think it's cool to eat different stuff for shock value. i think thats stupid. i eat food every day, cambodian, that contains stuff that would gag a lot of people but it's traditional food and not dangerous to eat. if anyone on here has eaten fresh durian and loves it like i do, you know what i mean.

That's why man invented hot sauce...for things unfit for human consumption.

Larry – I’ve never seen or heard of durian ‘til just now, but it’s a lot less shocking than I expected it would be. Hate to get between one of those and the ground, though...

Wasn’t beaver tail a favorite of the mountain men? I guess if you trap ‘em all winter it wouldn’t seem such a loss, but I couldn’t help thinking that it’s a shame to cook what could otherwise become a nice piece o’ leather...

Dogs were what people had before they had pigs – Calorie Banks. Food goes bad FAST once it’s killed, and about the only way to preserve their left-overs and/or recycle the bits that they couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t eat or dry was to un-kill the food by storing the calories on a dog. In some places people eat dogs because they keep dogs largely for their food value; modern-day US, we value them for other reasons, so we don’t eat our friends.

Funny thing about survival food, though... JMO, there’s a Reason that most of it is what you CAN eat when you HAVE TO. OTOH, you can acquire a taste for just about anything, I suppose.

Coyote, though... Definitely one of those things I’d probably start off in the pressure cooker.

when you cut a durian open, the odor is a lot like rotting flesh. the only thing to eat is not going to be coyote. not anywhere i've been. the bugs and small game they eat are much more available and also more nutritious. beaver are great eating. so are muskrat if you know where all the glands are and cut them out. so are these, crickets, fried and great for a snack.

sorry, the plate the girl is holding are tarantulas, another favorite roadside snack. the lady in the plaid shirt is holding crickets.

I don't think I'd be afraid to eat coyote if I were stuck in the wilds. Roast it slow over a fire until it's completely done. But I've never tried it and would not unless circumstances were bad.

i really enjoy Steve Rinella's show. he is respectful, and really enjoys sharing ALL of the hunting experience. doesn't whoop and holler. his is one of the only 2 or 3 shows i can stand.

he is also a great writer. have read all of his books.

i really enjoy Steve Rinella's show. he is respectful, and really enjoys sharing ALL of the hunting experience. doesn't whoop and holler. his is one of the only 2 or 3 shows i can stand.

he is also a great writer. have read all of his books.

To me durian smells like raw sewage

To me durian smells like raw sewage

Ok. I will bite. What is Durian. I wouldn't eat anything the Cambodians eat. They have been know to eat fish heads and rice. LOL

What’s wrong with fish heads???

I had a feeling that there was something you hadn’t mentioned about the durian, Larry!

Yeah, an aversion to strong, unfamiliar odors is a hard-wired reaction. Keeps young ‘uns from eating stuff that’ll probably kill ‘em... the latest thinking is that infants are tasting and smelling whatever Mom eats while they’re still in utero, and that familiarity (or lack thereof) helps make better decisions later in life.

Durian is a fruit some Southeast Asia. I copied and pasted these from Wikepedia:

Chef Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to "completely rotten, mushy onions".[27] Anthony Bourdain, a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit thus: "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother.

That tells me I won't be trying durian anytime soon.

I think that coyote compares to lobster after reading the above on durian.

four of us ate 6 of them one night on the way back to phnom pehn from kompong som. we kept telling the lady they just didn't taste right. we also bought 2 dozen to take home and when we counted them she had counted the ones we ate. funny you should mention fish heads. the first ones i ate were here on the rez. when we used to get huge runs of salmon up the creeks we would catch a bunch and cook the heads and feed the carcass to the dogs. grew up on them. later i ate sinigang made wih them and different fish including the heads all over s.e. asia. if i hadn't adapted to local foods back in the day i would have been in hard times or dead. i know all the good roots, plants, and wild berries etc. that grow here. don't need to eat junk food to survive.

"Larry, prove to me that Coyote harbors any more potential disease than any other wild animal that might be consumed. None of them are getting their shots."

Yeah bear,coons,cougars,possums and numerous other animals eat dead decaying meat and folks eat those. Heck people eat rats in some parts of the world, what's more discussing than that?

Larry were you in Vietnam?

i have been to vietnam, but not as a soldier. i was in udon thani, thailand in the early fifties doing work in laos for the firm. sort of grew up there. the guy with the bag in his hand in the big picture is my son-in-law. both he and my daughter grew up under the khmer rouge. i live in cambodia a few months every year. yeah, mike, they eat rats in cambodia too. but they are rats from rice paddys, not from the cities. there is a difference. people learned to eat them to survive in khmer rouge work camps. hell, i don't care what you eat. thats your problem, not mine. i picked up a bad organism from a coyote i skinned bare handed once. blood borne. caused temperature spikes when it was carried to my brain that would put me in the icu packed in ice. took 4 years for my body to kill it. thats why i wouldn't eat one. you all help yourself.

Man I've seen a few of Andrew Zimmern's 'Bizzare Food' shows on the history channel..as well as Bourdain's excursians into far away places sampling 'exotic' foods..

Around the world and in varying cultures..people have consumed and still do..all sorts of things..usually for protein when there wasn'r an easy source..

And yes..many of the spices..from curry to habernero..were used not just to make the food spicier..but to help ward off bacteria, parasites and other intestinal issues people can suffer from where refrigeration doesn't exist.., proper food handling and foodstuffs are questionable by our standards..

and Larry..I also have killed a few coyotes..but never have eaten them.. I'm not a big fan of carp either..tho millions of people over many centuries love that rough bottom feeder..Jim

"there is a difference. people learned to eat them to survive in khmer rouge work camps. hell, i don't care what you eat. thats your problem, not mine."

I grew up with Native Americans also. One time my friends mom had something cooking on the wood burning stove that smelled really good when I asked what it was I was told "Indian food white boy,eat it. Looked like cream of wheat. Got me a bowl and kept asking what it was and the only answers I got were smart ass ones.

On my second bowl they told me and I almost puked. Fly larvae...that's right maggots!

But like you Larry not the maggots you think of in the trash can or in rotten meat these are maggots they collect every year at Mono Lake,CA...some kind of special fly lays it's eggs there every year and they collect them. Ate the big fat pine grubs many times also while collecting fire wood.

It was good until I knew what it was...It's all in your head.

"Man I've seen a few of Andrew Zimmern's 'Bizzare Food' shows on the history channel..as well as Bourdain's excursians into far away places sampling 'exotic' foods.."

I love that show!

I could eat just about everything he does just every once in awhile he will eat something that I would be "no freaking way." Which usually involves rotten/fermented fish or live cockroaches.

So you think them rice paddy rats only eat rice, eh?

Or maybe they only eat what eats only rice?

LOL!

"Heck people eat rats in some parts of the world, what's more discussing than that? "

How about blue crabs outta the Hudson River? You know - the crabs that eat the drowned rats that get flushed out of the NYC/NJ storm drains... and there are probably more superfund clean-up sites up-stream than you can count. But I see the guys out there, and I really doubt they're catch & release crabbing for the fun of it...

Well..I'm kinda picky about eating crabs..or crayfish.. I catch them myself and have a feel for the water and environment they live and feed in..

Same with catfish when I used to fish them..Jim

joey, they don't carry disease and parasites like the city rats do. the government has promoted their use after khmer rouge because it's protein and if handled properly perfectly safe to eat. when i go for breakfast there i walk along and look at the meat hanging outside the small restaurants. i just choose the one that has the least amounts of flies to add to my noodles, they boil it good and i have never, even once, gotten sick in any manner while there. some people think balut is eaten for shock value. i eat it because at a good stand it's delicious. heres some food going to market.

I was going to make some popcorn for this thread (it's turing into a "3 bowler" maybe!!), but I think I'll pass......gack....

The maggots did it....like the french kissing of your dead grandmother wasn't enough!!!

You need to read Rinella's book Meat Eater. It's a fun read! He'll try eating anything!! :>)

"people learned to eat them to survive."

About say's it all.

Don't knock it till you try it.

Fresh durian, will have to give it a shot after reading up on it.

Thanks Larry.

Larry, those are possums.

he he he

:-)

I recently read Howard Hill's Hunting the Hard Way and he talks about making fox and the guys in camp liked it just fine til he told them what it was.

I've lived in Thailand for about 18 years now. Last year we were eating a bamboo rat. Not to bad but the strange thing was we gave the bones to the dog and they won't touch them. I found that a bit scary.

gaur, thats funny! i traveled off and on with hmong when i got pursued in laos back in the fifties. they are like the chinese saying, " we will eat anything with legs but a table". had a meal with a hmong grandmother two years ago in sacremento, ca.. we were eating a stew she made. i picked up a piece of meat with my chopsticks and realized it was the head of a small animal with sharp teeth. i asked her what it was and she said "tus nas", (rat). it was really a california ground squirrel. she trapped them in her back yard.

As a young kid I got to go check elk traps with my dad and uncle Mudd Walker on the game reserve located on the Yakama Rez. We rode snow machines into a small cabin. Dad asked what's for dinner? Mudd says Bobcat without missing a beat. I have to say it was really good!

A Mudd story for you Larry. Lol

I think any flesh is edible Some is better than others, and its all in the prep work.

I guess if youre starving ,even your hunting buddy looks good.

Yeah, I ate a diver 'duck' (a female common merganser) ONCE. Tastes like what it eats - fish, trout from the Madison River. I almost gagged. I shot it since there were no puddle ducks that day, and it was the ONLY duck I saw all day. I am self-obligated to eat what I shoot, so I tried it. NEVER AGAIN will I shoot one or eat one. And that's why I don't shoot coyotes... I tried some of the bobcat I shot in WA - Fair-to-middlen, however, Cougar is some of the best meat I have ever eaten. Tastes like the best pork chop I ever had. Funny, I just saw a large fresh beaver kill in the road on the way to a funeral. Not smashed at all. Thought about picking it up for the pelt but its too late in the season. Didn't give chowing it down a thought though. M&M do you want me to pick it up and send it to you Next-day-air? How about you, crookedstix??? There was a hubcap just down the road from it...hahaha

What does durian smell like again? Rotten meat? That makes no sense to eat, just stimulates the gag response in me. Why not just try Ginko fruit? Smells like dog crap - there is nothing worse than that... I am blessed to have been born in THIS country - I don't want to offend anyone not from here, but I don't like bugs and glad I didn't grow up in a culture that eats them. JMO. I have tried raccoon - yuck, greasy; woodchuck - yuck, rubbery and bland; muskrat - delicious and tender. Other than that, chicken, which eats its own droppings - I don't like it. But I have to eat it or no meat sometimes. I saw a guy selling rat traps in Jamaica this spring. Not for killing, live traps... Go figure.

Durian is known as the King of Fruit. When they were in season, we'd sit down and demolish many of them. Opening them was a skill to be learned and eating them is heavenly. If you walk under a durian tree and one falls on your head, you will be killed.

There are very few people in the western world who could stand the smell. I've seen grown men faint. Its a heavenly scent to me! We can get frozen durian in the supermarket here. The smell is not so pungent, but of my three daughters, only one can stand the smell. I guess it what you're used to.

Then there's Vegamite, to those of you Down Under, I'm sure its great, but I tried it once and thought, 'Who could eat that stuff?' :) You all probably think the same thing about peanut butter...

Anthony don't even try it and tell us that's your Doe? LOL

I know a woman who traps NJ and she eats the yottes, foxs and coons and whatever else that won't eat her first. She isn't affraid to try anything.LOL

She's also a fox herself to. She's hot and a tuff one and I like her. Don't want to say her name outright in case any Jerseys boys tell her I mentioned her by name.

If a MT Lion tastes like veal I am not sure that a yotte like liver though I am not eating any yottes they have rabbies. Forget that.LOL

Diver duck forget that if its ass smells like fish then its varmit bait.LOL

There was a thread on here I think about MeatEater Steven Renella showed a video on U tube where the meateater, his camera crew, and the Vet he took bear hunting all became real sick with Trichinosis from eating under cooked bear meat cooked on a fire in the woods where they shot the bear.

zu, where are you from?

Ryman, I hope I don't run into that woman in the woods somewhere... Not without a sidearm that is. My gray hair looks too much like a coyote pelt. :/

MeatEater Renella should have taken a veterinarian, not a veteran.

In deer camp some years ago with all my hunting buddies i told about the coons and porcupines I had eaten and how good they were. Of coarse they didn't think they would want to eat one. As luck would have it the next day I came on a big porky fairly low in a tree. A well placed arrow brought him down and I took him back to camp. The next day I roasted him in the oven of our gas stove. Long story short I made believers out of everyone on how good the meat was, the cleaned it up and licked the bones.

How do you skin a porcupine?... Very carefully

I am willing to try almost anything. I did eat a coyote a couple of years ago I had trapped. About the only one I ever skinned that didn't turn your stomach from the smell. It was actually pretty good. Later that same season I cooked a grey fox. It was tough, stringy and wouldn't have tasted better after 24 hours without anything to eat. ;) Ate a crow once also, it was extremely sweet, didn't like it.

My dad grew up in the depression around an old man and his wife who would cook and eat a lot from the wild. Louie told dad one time the toughest thing he ever ate was a red fox and the strongest was a turkey buzzard.

Yes, he did get trichinosis from not cooking bear meat to a proper temperature. Like pigs, bears are susceptible to the trichina larvae. There's a reason why such meat should be cooked to the right internal temperature...and that information is not new. Someone of his notoriety should know that since they are in the limelight and influencing a lot of folks.

Dog might be good to eat if you don't name them . We eat lutefisk on holidays, its our Norwegian heritage . Boy does it stink up the house . Its cod cured in lye . Dipped in butter its not bad ..

Crikey, why would you eat a coyote, when there is Sweet Meats - aka head cheese, available in the supermarket??? I've come to realize in reading this thread, that there are a lot of serious hard-core carnivores on this site. Grey fox?? Turkey buzzard, - uh, kinda like eating durian??? Wow, times are hard, but seriously? We are not in the depression anymore. I can understand the furbearing rodents but the next thing I expect to see on here is someone was stuck for a week in the UP one winter while trapping and had to eat their mink carcasses... ACKK! Does the term 'Donner Party' ring a bell...

Cut your Durian up outside, not in the house. Trust me on this one.

All kidding aside it's a well made show, almost said well done , but knew the jokes would start again.

Hook eye and Larry are correct .The potential for getting sick eating meat eating animals ain't worth it.Reptiles are different but still suspect though.Tryed crocodile snake ,and goannas( large monitor lizards).Best food I ever had was emu cooked in a fire pit for a whole day.When we came back from hunting we just dug it out of the coals and hot sand and started cutting chunks of meat off .Kangaroo cooks good that way too. OSR

No dog for me, I have had coon though, it was good.

Go to the Buckhorn Exchange in Denver if you want good tasting exotics and game. They even serve testicles... if you are so inclined to put balls in your mouth - not me. The Yak is outstanding, so is the Ostrich (I don't see that on the menu now, but they used to have it), and if you use your imagination, you could get the CO lamb, and look up at the old, ratty mounts on the wall and in particular, the coyote or raccoon, and pretend you are eating it without actually doing so. There is probably a mounted buzzard in there for you folks too lazy to kill something's imagination... :0

I sold a few hides in my teen years when I coon hunted. The fur man told me he wanted the meat from fox, bobcat and coon because people would buy it to eat. It all looks pretty similar with the hide off. I'll pass on the dogs, cats and coons but I still like squirrels & rabbits. My daughter ate croc and wildebeest in Africa and said it was very good!

I just cant understand,why so many people make such a big deal over eat'n mountain oysters.They arent that bad and it is common table fair at certain times of the year,in cow country.Now eat'n em raw and uncleaned,like some of those old Basque sheep men used to do when i was young,was different.LOL

Traxx, I was mainly joking about the RM oysters, but I tried them once and didn't really see the appeal. They were bland and kinda gritty like corn meal. I figured if I wanted that I'd eat a Johnnycake muffin and not have to regret the source. Do they have any food value! If not for taste, and no nutrition, why bother? Ha! As for coon, the one I tried was like eating a beargrease soaked buckskin quiver with about the same flavor as the nuts. I could still see that skinned out coon carcass with an inch thick layer of greasy yellow and smell the musky coon. Just not much of an appetite stimulant for me. I'll stick with muskrat... :) Dog only if I'm starving to death... :0

TrapperKayak,

Wasnt directed to you per say.Your post just reminded me of all the talk i hear about it all the time.The Gross factor,is highly exaggerated,in my opinion.Its just a different cut of meat.

Hell,

Ive et a whole lot more gross than that and liked it.LOL

i'm with traxx! every time we work calves we set aside a pail for lunch. you have to know how to clean them. then you have some tender meat only thats tasty and filling. i eat dog sometimes when i'm in cambodia if i'm feeling a little "off". ate it in korea a lot. tasted good because it was taken care of right. same thing in cambodia or china. hell, i ate horse a lot when we were chasing wild ones and were out for weeks at a time. some people think thats sick. i think it's a good way to make use of horses that aren't fit for anything else.

I'm in the Philippines now. Had a durian milkshake. Not bad. Sure the fruit sticks, but it's not that bad, IMO. I don't eat carnivores or oysters, mussels as the concentrate any toxins in the water. I'm also leary about eating top level fish predators as the mercury, etc. levels are an order of magnitude higher than lower trophic level fish. Sad that we have polluted much of the animals and waters with man made toxicity. Of course, natural toxicity is also a fact.

David A there are more toxins in the air you're currently breathing then you will ever accumulate from eating animals.

Ah Horse.

Pink Pearl restaurant, just not on the menu : )

" As for coon, the one I tried was like eating a beargrease soaked buckskin quiver with about the same flavor as the nuts. I could still see that skinned out coon carcass with an inch thick layer of greasy yellow and smell the musky coon. Just not much of an appetite stimulant for me. I'll stick with muskrat"

Coons have a lot of fat on em so you cut of all the fat you can and also cut out the glands under the front legs. I like em roasted in the oven and when they're fallin off the bone add barbecue sauce. The meat is rich and sweet. I've probably ate more coons than you could tree in a week with a good coon hound, very good IMO

I have read that the writer Wm Faulkners'favourite meal in deer camp was coon. The best baked beans I ever had was at the trappers convention in North Bay ,Ont. They were made with beaver tail which put the flavour on them. Sandy.

Was stationed in Hawaii in the sixties and they raised dogs to eat. there weren't any strays in the islands in those days. Yes I did eat dog and it was good.

Dog,is the traditional meal,after Yuwipi ceremony.

I'm definitely not a picky eater. I"ll eat most things at least once. Rats, dogs, or anything from the Asian countries that has a mystery meat in it is off limits. My dads sister married a fella from there. After watching him eat the ordered fish eyes straight out of the jar and, many other things very gross, I'll stick with what the Good Lord provided for me here. And make no apologies for it. God Bless

Traxx, no offense taken. I just figured I could find something a bit more conventional but then again, I never worked on a cattle ranch so what do I know? lol. LarryHatfield, I think horse would be pretty good eating actually. Reason its not served or eaten is the cloven hoof thing that is forbidden by religions (as written in the scriptures). Otherwise I think it would be some pretty good grass fed eating. Ron, coons are like little bears (omnivores), and I like bear quite a bit if done right, so I'm sure its the same for coon. If prepared correctly, it is probably pretty good. Just not the one I ate. It was not done right. Its the carnivores that I am kinda picky about, but I'd eat cougar again anytime. Rats, cats, bugs, and dogs are off limits, except tree rats. Who knows, I have probably eaten dog somewhere without knowing it and liked it... Kangaroo is very good, I had some at a restaurant this past year, can't remember where. You guys down under can't complain about 'roo, huh?

I remember where I got the kangaroo. Johnny Angel's Heavenly Hamburgers I Skaneateles, NY. It was goooood...

TrapperKayak,

Who knows, I have probably eaten dog somewhere without knowing it and liked it..

Its probably been the same with horse,if you were alive in this country before about 1990.

Traxx, I was very much alive in 1990, and not even that old - under 40 anyway. Around that time, I'm fairly certain I ate Kangaroo for the first time, at McDonald's. There were these rumors...

HAHA!!!!

Back in 80 somethin,i was buckarooin with an Aussie.I was askin him about Australia.Talk came around to Kangaroos and i asked him what they do with em.Shoot em of course he says.I ask him,what do you do with em then,Eat em?

GOD NO he says,

We ship em to you bloody yanks and you eat em at Mcdonalds.

LOL!!! I knew it! That explains the spring in my step back then!

was riding 2nd saddling horses with another kid in texas way back when and i asked him if he ate possum. he didn't answer. after about an hour we spotted a dead cow all bloated up near a water tank. the other kid got off his horse and walked over to the carcass and kicked it in the ribs. a family of possums came out of the bung. he walked back over to where i was holding his halter rope, got back on his horse, and said, "thats why i don't aet them." all about perception. when i'm eating fish heads with my khmer daughter, i never eat the eyes. she loves them and gets them all. she thinks pizza is the nastiest stuff she ever saw.

I saw him eat one and he gave impression at first like that but later said he would never eat it again....

Stumbled on this most interesting thread. Have not tried much out of the way of what "normal" wild game & consider elk the finest meat I've ever eaten. See Ron''s camp baked porcupine above. Just never can tell?

But I've also killed pigs (javelina incl) that stunk worse than a summer shathouse. Cooked them deep in bbq sauce but seemed to only make the stink worse.

I'm disgusted by much of the cuisine from SE Asia and throughout Africa. I consider people who eat rats, dogs, bugs and stuff like that to be close to sub-human. Two years ago, we had an invasion of Asian beetles. I watched two Asian ladies collecting them by the thousands to take home and eat, lol! I saw another sub-human wading along the shoreline of the polluted river, looking for edibles, lol! She was super pretty or I might have called her a sub-human.

Joe

M&M (OP), I shot a merganser on the Madison river in Montana once, and ate it. I eat what I shoot (mostly), and I cooked it and took a bite, but it tasted like bland trout (what it eats), so I chucked the rest. I almost chucked up the bite I took too. Fresh elk liver is far better. I am of the same thinking about SE Asian and African cuisine as Joe, no bugs, rats, or dogs, but I'll stop short of the label...of the people who do eat that stuff... ;^) Since I have been known to eat hot dogs, who is to say what I've eaten that is not worse (guts, pig$#!+, and squeaky-clean-pig-AH's)...oh my!

When I was in 8th grade we went on a school trip to a meat packer, (meat packer, that sounds almost as politically incorrect as His Royal Friskiness), anyway, they showed the new hotdog machine. All kinds of stuff went into it, green stuff, blue stuff, lumpy stuff, grey mushy stuff, and out the other end came hotdogs. That's right, they fed that beast all kinds of garbage and it pooped hotdogs. They gave each one of us a cold hotdog, I threw mine in the trash. I had a pesky possum where we lived once. It threatened my baby daughter, a death sentence. Put a Deadhead straight through it. I thought we could try Granny Clempet's baked possum, but I threw up a little when I skinned it and let the crows have it.

I eat a lot of refined sugars, as I'm from a refined society. None of the crude stuff for me! Norwegians and their lutefisk are another bunch of unrefined blowhards.

Joe

Nice, Dean... :) I will almost certainly never eat a hot dog again. Not even a Kosher one. I had some mink once, just a dozen pen raised ones. We fed them ground tripe and other 'meat'. It attracted a possum to the pens one time, so I put on the mink glove and picked up the adult possum and it bit down on my gloved hand. No problem. I carried it into the house attached to my fingers and said, 'Hey Mom, look at what I caught!' I was not sure if she was going to shoot it, or ME! It never got eaten that's for sure. It looked like a giant rat. I would have the same gag reflex trying to eat one as you did... Some things are meant to eat and not be eaten... 8^)

Frisky, how about Koreans and their Kim-shee? EEEEEEEEE-www :)

Important to recite the old, all-purpose mantra: Tastes like chicken.

Real Kim-shee is a super food, it will cure almost, I said almost, everything that is ailing Frisker,except perhaps his sugar addiction. Frisky, PUT DOWN THE DOUGHNUT.

I'll have to look up Kim-shee. I was offline for a spell due to a storm.

Joe

I'm not a picky eater by any stretch. I'd probably eat it if I had to.

But with so many other GOOD wild game to eat I gotta think...well why?

Deer , Bear, turkey, grouse, ducks and geese, rabbit, squirrel don't mind woodchuck now and then on and on.

I'm with larry I skinned a pile of hides when I trapped a lot. coyote, and fox and opossum are Way down on my list of things to eat.

Times would have to be pretty lean.

My dad worked in a packing plant while in college after he got home from WWII. He NEVER ate a hot dog again!!!

But, he loved that disgusting head cheese crap ^(.

I worked for a veterinarian through my school years...haven't eaten ANY rare cooked meat since.

Caution, Most coyotes carry a Parasite in there meat in a very tiny egg form. the coyote is a host and not affected . Called Hidaded. this can be transferred to humans by touching coyote meat or eating coyote meat. this egg then hatches in the human blood stream producing a worm that attaches to human organs . Causing a Hidaded Syste . may have spelling wrong but 100 % death, no cure or treatment. between 6 and 12 deaths each year from touching raw coyote meat without gloves. Old time trappers were dam cautious about washing with soap after skinning coyotes. If some one did eat coyote meat on a TV show they should see Dr. soon

Just might come a day we might have to eat anything that won't eat us first?LOL

Who the heck knows what we will yet see in our time yet. LOL

I love Meat Eater, and saw that episode. Steven kind of liked the BBQ'd coyote in that episode, but as Shorthair said, in a later episode he pretty much panned it.

Glad to have you back Frisky, we sure did miss you...

Yes, I've been trying to be a model citizen around here, but it got old fast, lol!

Joe

Just might come a day we might have to eat anything that won't eat us first? Does that mean that Frisky's neighbors need to hide their cats.

The first white folks here in the East learned to cook raccoon the Native American way--spit roasting, so that the fat all melts and runs off. As Ron LaClair noted earlier, gthe meat underneath all that fat is delicious; about the best wild meat I've had.

Bear and seal fat seem to have been the preferred culinary fats by the Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, and others up here, because they rendered nicely, tasted good, and lasted a long time without going rancid. They used them the way we use butter.

No one has yet mentioned snapping turtle. My father killed a big one back in the day, which I thought was needless, so I decided to try and make things right by at least eating it. I cut its head off and threw the snapper in the back of my truck, where it proceeded to walk around for some time. Four hours later I got it home and went to clean it...and when I would start to insert the knife under one front leg, the other front leg would reach across and grab the knife, and pull it away. Couldn't believe it, so I tried the other front leg--same response. This thing clearly has a helper brain somewhere farther down the spine!

Anyway, several hours of boiling produced something that tasted like a cross between chicken and mud. But...I can imagine that a young turtle, killed quickly and humanely, might taste more like chicken and less like mud.

Frisky..as my dear wife is from the Phillipines she would be hurt by your bigoted, nasty,racist comments on sub humans, but I will make sure she does' nt see that. With you it's sometimes difficult to know if you are jokeing or not, but racism is never a fitting subject for humour. Sandy

In my youth, I killed many armadillos. Then, on a scouting trip about 45yrs ago, I decided if I was going to kill them I should eat them. So fire was built, diller cleaned , Woodies cooking sauce applied and roasted. Haven't killed an armadillo in 45yrs now.

I took Frisky's "sub-human" comment to be in relation to diet not ethniticity. I also took it as a joke. But he certainly doesnt need me to defend him.

Lowcountry x2

Sub humans...not cool. I'm in the Philippines now and if you saw a pic of my g.f. I think many would say she's super human or just super (as in great!). A lot of guys back in the states would go nuts, frankly.

I guess that's why the STAR Method doesn't get published, see there is a reason for everything...

Both took imagination to come true...

Durian isn't that bad, IMO. Kinda's smells like VERY intense rotting pineapple. Had a nice durian-banana smoothie. Delicious.

Pic is sand crabs...local delicacy here in the Philippines and throughout SE Asia...I stick with fish and chicken. The kids catch them as the waves recede off the sand...you have to be quick!

My brother and I got in trouble for cooking a muskrat in mom's kitchen. It wasn't all that good.

I have a friend from the Philippines I consider a subhuman. Not because she's from the Philippines, but because she likes corned beef. Sure, I'm a racist (consider the Irish the master race) but I don't base subhuman status on race. More on food tastes or even bow choice. Vegetarians are subhuman. Widda owners are borderline subhuman.

Joe

I forgot to mention I have a buddy who is a lawyer in Chicago. He's a subhuman. He loves corned beef and cabbage soup and is a lawyer. There's no need to get bent out of shape over political correctness. So, I'm a food bigot. Like I said, I'm refined of tastes and like refined foods.

Joe

Here ya go I gave 3 deers away and other critters and birds couple months ago. Dr's said no we don't want you eating any wild meat! Perioud and like an idiout I listened so mad at myself. I'm sick over it but I held some back all didn't go but a good bit did.

I'll get more I know where they live and swim and fly by.LOL

They tried to tell me for healing purposes no wild meat and any of specialty I had all made up some goodies. Yeah right and the gout have to take pills for.

I want to know where alpaca ale shoots his bows? With girls like that I think more shoots would fill up. I did not see this episode but I myself could not and would not eat dog. Meat eater hunting show is probably the best show out there, represents what hunting is and rinella does an excellent job representing g the hunting community, IMO.

Good for you...David A. Have you tried ballot? ..while in the Phillipines. Sandy

RymanCat- You sure of the expiration dates on all that meat? Probably old stuff the doctor felt might kill ya.

Joe

There was a show on one of those hunting channels a few years ago called Dead Meat, where a chef hunted and fished with locals and then ate what the locals cooked. He ate muskrat, sea cucumber, sucker fish, crows, monkey faced eels,etc., etc. - lots of strange stuff. The only one I really remember the chef not giving favorable reviews to was Mudfish (bowfin).

Codjigger, no balut for me no ooh. Nor dogs, cats, chicken legs/toes, fish eye balls, monkey stuff, arachnids, or insects. Just about everything else...lot of healthy fruits, veggies, and seafood. Let's not forgot the underestimated Cocconuts!

It seems to me a lot of you fellers have never known what it is to go to bed hungry.If you did you would not be so quick to turn your noses up at some of the things others eat. Myself I grew up eating..whale meat, porpoise, seal, rabbit heads, loon, merganser, puffin, various sea birds, cod tongues, cod heads, herring roe, eel, moose tongue and other things I have forgotten. We raised sheep and goats for fresh meat and I'll tell you there was never too much and we didn'nt pass any of it up. The good book tells us.." it is not what goes in a mans' mouth that defiles the man; but that which comes out of it" Eat up! Sandy

David I think your spelling of Balut is the correct one and i must confess that I passed it up also. I am sure many here don'nt know what balut is, it is a duck egg which is boiled then pickled shortly before hatching. A fine Filipino snack. Sandy

YUCK!!!!!

This evening I was getting ready to cook a couple of ribeye. My wife started doing busy work. She put my black deer sled on top of my chopping long the other day when I was painting. Under it and on top of my chopping long there were a bunch of wood cutter ants and a whole big pile of wood cutter eggs. Yummy, who wants eggs.I grabbed my ax and bug killer and split my chopping log to bits looking for the queen. Horrible death, agony and destruction. soaked with sweat, I told my wife to start the steaks, while cleaned up and put on dry clothes. then she saw a light out in the kitchen and forgot about the steaks. How done is well done? She didn't even put the lid on the webber, two steaks turned into four piles of black flaming deliciousness. I'm starving, what's for supper? Not hungry for bugs, eggs, blackened steak, Chinese. A roasted squirrel sounds pretty good right now. Oh, one more thing. Doctors know very little about nutrition. There is one here that also advices to not eat game meat, but thinks GMO fed fatty pork is just fine. Blood thinners are a form of rat poison and have many side effects. The healthy alternative is fish oil, krill and non-frurodated water. Lean venison in proper amounts has a lot of vitamin B which is good for the heart. All globalists and their associated corporations are sub human, nothing more than greedy astrology worshipping control freaks. I am going to go eat a walleye now.

I eat Rocky mtn oysters. My dad said he would prefer to eat about 16 inches higher up on the critter

My Dad said.."It was a brave man who first ate a lobster" :-) Sandy

Speaking of veterenarians, out mink rancher friend who I got my mink from, knew alot about parasites. He put some deer blood from a deer he butchered on a slide and showed it to me once when I was about 12. Will never forget it. There were thousands of larval liver flukes, microscopic, swimming in that blood. Ecchh.. I butcher my deer, and 3 of the last 4 shot from near home had half dollar sized adult flukes, several in one deer,embedded in the livers. When you cut them out, thick black stinky liquid oozes out and the fluke looks like a reddish gray blood clot. It about gags ya... Consequently to both situations, I tend to fully cook my NY venison. I would not want those demonic little Johnsons eating my liver. I have recently rescued 3 snappers from sure death crossing roads. Todays was huge, well over a foot long with a head that looked like a baseball bat. The first two stunk my hands all up so today I just shoved him on his way across with my foot. He was more than willing to ablige. A helper brain....lol! I shot one in the head with a .22 at least a dozen times once and he still did not die. Beware armadillos, they carry leprosy of all things. Eat one...blecchh. Ryman, your Dr. must be a quack. No game? Esp. duck embryos? The horror... Coyote...Not now, not ever. No, I rarely went to bed hungry but we were anything but rich. We ate alot of off the wall stuff that we hunted. But NO rabbit heads. NO gelatinous Cheese-head head cheese. No monkey brains, and no bugs. Im sorry, but blubber wasnt a staple either. Alot of that stuff hoh mentioned, Sandy, would definitely come back out of the mouth if it went it, and pronto I might add.

I was trained as a biologist and once you have had a course in parasitology, you'll never be the same again. :-(

Also, I did research on mussels...those guys along with oysters are the filter traps in estuaries and areas near harbours (often)...not a good idea to be eating them, in my opinion. The exception would be those taken from clean reefs far from pollution.

Same may apply to fish, I wouldn't be eating fish caught right off the harbour pier....Sadly, scenes like this of clean water and abundant fish are uncommon. From the remote Banda Sea. A bit different than fish from Manila Bay.

As hunters, we can be fairly confident wild game meat is usually not contaminated with pollutants, antibiotics, or growth hormones. The average consumer is so disconnected they have no idea of the origin of what they are eating.

Yes;.. anti-biotics and growth hormones. I have raised a few chickens and the commercial feed was laced with these.

As for pork ..I had a neighbour who had a mink farm. One day I was there as he was skinning mink and I noticed a 45gal drum that was half full of mink carcasses..so I asked him.".Ron, what do you do with the carcasses"? "Oh, " he said, " when the drum gets full, I give the pig farmer up the road a call" !! Sandy

I've struggled with pancreatitis for about 30 years, although I haven't had an attack for a long time now. Thusly, I've been on a real low fat diet for a long time.

In that regard, my doc recommended wild game over whatever-the-hell it is sold in markets today.

Life was better when we ate free range chickens, and natural fed beef off the farm in the last century.

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