What types of turtle can you eat?

I'm sure you can, but would I? No.

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Soft shell, snapping turtle, and alligator snapping turtle

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I'd bet sea turtles are pretty tasty, but they come with some pretty stiff penalties.

When people eat chicken they don't worry about whether it's a Rhode Island Red or Barred Rock. Chicken is chicken...same with turtle.

DIFFERENCE IS, with chicken, a Barred Rock will have more meat than a White Leghorn so people raise Barred Rocks for meat (and/or eggs).

I have eaten striper heads and I can tell you they taste just like snapping turtle. Problem is, you have to clean 10 to have enough. They don't furnish as well.

Common snappers furnish aprox half their weght in meat. 10 lb turtles = 5 lbs of meat.

With Aligator snapping turtles their shells are thicker/heavier and don't furnish quite as much but still a lot.

I'm pretty sure they sell all species commerically. If you go buy a pound of turtle meat somewhere, I would think the odds of it being something other than snapper is really high.

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I've heard you can eat softshells, loggerheads, and alligator snapping turtles though.

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Wouldnt tell too many people that.

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I've heard you can eat softshells, loggerheads, and alligator snapping turtles though.

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Loggerheads = Alligator snapping turtles.

There is a common snapper and an alligator snapper.

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Wouldnt tell too many people that.

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Why not? You can keep one a day with a fishing license.

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I'd bet sea turtles are pretty tasty, but they come with some pretty stiff penalties

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Back in the 70's I worked for a company that imported Green Sea Turtle meat from Ecuador. We almost had to give the stuff away. Sold from $00.69 to $00.85/ lb. depending on the cut of meat. Once it went on the endangered list price went to as high as $10.00/LB.
The plant in Ecuador would save all the penis's and send them to us once a year. We would auction those off to the highest bidder! Don't know what they did with them but they were like gold. Somebody told me the Oriental's dried them to make a powder form of aphrodisiac.

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Geauxtiga

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Speaks the truth.

The only turtles I wouldn't eat would be a box turtle and a musk turtle. I can imagine they both are different than all others. I'd imagine tortoises taste differently also.

Just called my wife to tell her to take out a pack of turtle meat to thaw. Kids are gone for the night. Gonna drink single barrel whiskey and cook a sauce piquant.

Got a redfish couvillion on the stove right now