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re: Nutria Rat
Posted on 2/7/20 at 6:16 pm to Tig3rman
Posted on 2/7/20 at 6:16 pm to Tig3rman
I killed one in my pond, cleaned it and brought it to a friend to cook several years ago. He cooked it down in a gravy with onions and bell peppers. He bought it to work and we told everyone it was rabbit. We all destroyed it. Afterwards we told everyone what it was. I still chuckle thinking about the reactions and comments.
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 6:44 pm to EveryoneGetsATrophy
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Do they not have a backstrap like a rabbit?
I guess but it’s not worth skinning the whole rat for.
Especially when you’ve got a pile of a hundred to work thru
All the good meat is in the hind quarters
Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:15 pm to cgrand
you guys must be great cooks i cleaned many for the chefs flew in to our duck camp and they stunk the meat was red and stringy and none of it was edible - before you disagree remember Chef Paul Prudhomme tried to promote it cooking half a dozen ways at his restaurant and failed
Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:09 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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Nutria rat’s is the term that Yankees and city slickers use.
Downvote for using the words yankees and city slickers.
Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:43 pm to saray
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before you disagree remember Chef Paul Prudhomme tried to promote it cooking half a dozen ways at his restaurant and failed
Prudhomme didn't fail because it didn't taste good, it was the public's perception of eating nutria that failed him.
Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:53 pm to gumbo2176
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Prudhomme didn't fail because it didn't taste good, it was the public's perception of eating nutria that failed him.
Yup. Even my parents (who try everything) refuse to eat it. They eat rabbit all day but not nutria because it looks like a rat.
Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:38 pm to saray
Sounds like I'll just have to find out for myself. Some hate it, some love it
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:13 am to saray
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i cleaned many for the chefs flew in to our duck camp and they stunk the meat was red and stringy and none of it was edible
You sure they didn’t send you muskrat? My experience with nutria is somewhat different.
And it is delicious.
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before you disagree remember Chef Paul Prudhomme tried to promote it cooking half a dozen ways at his restaurant and failed
As others have pointed out, not because of the taste. You think Paul Prudhomme would promoted a food that tastes terrible.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:16 am to ChatRabbit77
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Nutria Rat
When I'm hungry I like rat meat better. Where I live it is easier to find. You Louisiana boys are lucky.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:17 am to Bigfishchoupique
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Nutria rat’s is the term that Yankees and city slickers use. It is a bastardized version of nutria and muskrat.
Every old Cajun I know (I’m 58, I’m talking people older than me, English as a second language, often) has and usually (if they’re still around) call it nutria rat.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:21 am to mdomingue
On a side not I am sitting here in northern Germany and low and behold a nutria just came climbing up out of this drainage/bayou.
Little bastards have made it everywhere.
Little bastards have made it everywhere.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:22 am to aTmTexas Dillo
Regular ol swamp rat or wood rat?
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:23 am to canyon
Big wood rats. I catch 'em with cheese and a trap.
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:26 am to aTmTexas Dillo
Just like catching democrats
Free cheese
Free cheese
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:02 am to GREENHEAD22
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On a side not I am sitting here in northern Germany and low and behold a nutria just came climbing up out of this drainage/bayou.
Little bastards have made it everywhere.
Thought you FOS. Turns out you’re not. Also found out the actual name for the nutria is coypu
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:10 am to mdomingue
[/URL][/img] Who lies about Nutria
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:18 am to mdomingue
One of Hitler's crony's probably introduced them to Germany.
Just researched a little. Apparently they have been in Germany since the 1920's.
Just researched a little. Apparently they have been in Germany since the 1920's.
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 8:26 am
Posted on 2/8/20 at 8:41 am to saray
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they stunk the meat was red and stringy and none of it was edible -
there is no red meat on a nutria rat. The meat is white and very similar to rabbit in appearance when raw. Much lighter in color than a squirrel for example
not sure what you cleaned and cooked there man. Hope none of your buds are missing a dog
Posted on 2/8/20 at 9:54 am to bayouvette
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had it fried and it was the worse wild game I ever tasted.
I’ve never had it but I’m most likely to believe this. We never see threads here about hunting them and never threads on the food board about cooking them. A lot of y’all talk like it’s gourmet...is it really or is that you telling yourself that? I believe if they were as delicious as some of y’all try to convince us that they are, then there wouldn’t be a nutria population. We’re talking about an animal that’s very easy to hunt and kill with no bag limit in coonass country. Consider me skeptical that they’re delicious and thriving
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