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Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:21 am to
Posted by Ari BROld
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
484 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:21 am to
We have a nutria spaghetti at the hunting camp every once in a while.

I wasn't too excited at first but it's really good.
Posted by TJG210
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2006
29445 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:26 am to
Ostrich

What about wild plants?

Thistle (Cajun Celery)
Posted by 007mag
Death Valley, Sec. 408
Member since Dec 2011
3925 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:35 am to
quote:

mountain oysters

I once worked with a guy that brought in a platter of fried squirrel nuts one day. Didn't try them but from the size of that platter he had to have been the best squirrel hunter I ever.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:56 am to
Weirdest I have tasted is fermented (rotten) seal flipper. Natives bury it on the beach til it's ripe. Village folk eat some nasty stuff.
Posted by braindeadboxer
Utopia
Member since Nov 2011
8742 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 9:59 am to
quote:

nutria spaghetti


Ate in in a sauce picante once. Wasn't bad at all. I'd eat it again.
Posted by StinkDog12
TW, TX
Member since Nov 2006
4753 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:36 am to
quote:

fermented (rotten) seal flippe


:absolutlyphuckingnot:

I saw that on a history channel show one time...No way I could eat anything that is rotting!
Posted by Nodust
Member since Aug 2010
22804 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:41 am to
quote:

from the size of that platter he had to have been the best squirrel hunter I ever.


I ate armadillo. A guy in Montana was going to get me some mountain lion but he never came through.

Nothing else that hasn't been listed here yet. Nutria ain't bad. Cooked in a sauce picante you don't notice what it is. To people outside the south squirrel is a very strange thing to eat.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:50 am to
quote:

uckingnot:

I saw that on a history channel show one time...No way I could eat anything that is rotting!


Andrew Zimmern was here last summer and he spent time in Kake, which is native village. They had him eating stink eggs and stink heads. Stink eggs are fermented salmon roe, and stink heads are fish heads buried in the beach for a few weeks to get ripe. He said it was the worst thing he had ever tasted.

Fermented flipper or beaver tail are the worst I have tasted, and muktuk is close behind. I would never eat anything like that again.

With so many good foods available I just don't need to do that crap anymore which is another reason to stay away from the village.
Posted by Ari BROld
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2012
484 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:56 am to
quote:

I'd eat it again.


Hell yeah. everyone flips shite when we are riding in the boat and see one on the bank.
Posted by OldSouth
Folsom, LA
Member since Oct 2011
11012 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 10:58 am to
quote:

With so many good foods available I just don't need to do that crap anymore which is another reason to stay away from the village.



What was the original reason for preparing these dishes this way, to "preserve" them? Because that kinda defeats the purpose if it's rotten.
Posted by Choirboy
On your property
Member since Aug 2010
10779 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:08 am to
Years ago some buddies and I cooked a freshly killed bobcat over an open camp fire. Tougher than boot leather does not describe how tough the meat was. Then the taste was similar to what I would imagine an overweight aerobics instructors vagina would be like after a week with no bath.
Posted by Tiger inTampa
Tampa, FL
Member since Sep 2009
2171 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:08 am to
quote:

Just thinking that this would make a pretty good outdoor channel television show.


Been done and is being done now. It's called Dead Meat on the Sportsman's Channel. Good show. He goes in and hunts, fishes, traps, whatever with the locals then they take back the "game" to a local restaurant or many times a bar, cook it up and make other locals try it.


LINK
Posted by Tilco Baller
[posi] nega barner
Member since Jun 2012
1563 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:10 am to
His old show was called "hunt, fish, cook". It was okay at times but really low budget.
Posted by StinkDog12
TW, TX
Member since Nov 2006
4753 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:35 am to
quote:

It was okay at times but really low budget.


If I were going to do it, I would tap into OT money and do that shat right! With that being said, you might get a flash of hookers and blow in the background from time to time during the show
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:40 am to
quote:


What was the original reason for preparing these dishes this way, to "preserve" them? Because that kinda defeats the purpose if it's rotten.



Could be to hide them. Usually put in the intertidal and it's buried by water half the day. Some reason it's now some cultural tradition and I suppose some of the natives have developed a taste for it.

I guess it's no different than the fermented herring people in Sweden and Norway eat.
Posted by StinkDog12
TW, TX
Member since Nov 2006
4753 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 11:46 am to
I just cant imagine ever attempting to eat something like that...much less acquiring a taste for it.

Dont get me wrong...in a survival situation, I think that I could eat a skunks butthole but as far as just eating some rotten shat for the hell of it....no way!
Posted by CoastieGM
Member since Aug 2012
3185 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 6:00 pm to
quote:

Then the taste was similar to...an overweight aerobics instructors vagina would be like after a week with no bath.


a.k.a. Rosie Rottencrotch

Cats just plain stink on the inside.
Posted by LouisianaChessie
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since May 2010
2582 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 6:04 pm to
quote:

Sandhill crane


They got a bounty on those big bastards at the camp. Some extreme measures have been discussed to get one in a pot.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 6:44 pm to
quote:


Been done and is being done now. It's called Dead Meat on the Sportsman's Channel. Good show. He goes in and hunts, fishes, traps, whatever with the locals then they take back the "game" to a local restaurant or many times a bar, cook it up and make other locals try it.


LINK



His family has a place on Prince of Wales Island in SE Ak. He's hunted there, took the food back to Brooklyn and had a dinner party.
Posted by Remington Dawg
Irmo, S.C
Member since Sep 2012
1457 posts
Posted on 4/16/13 at 7:20 pm to
For a Georgia/SC boy I've tried a lot of normal game but I have never had squirrel or rabbit. I want to go rabbit hunting and try some rabbit soon. What does squirrel taste like? Is it worth cleaning them and cooking the tree rats?
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