What part of a turtle are edible? On "Survivor Man" he just ate the feet and legs?

Answer 1

everything but the guts and stomach


25 YEARS AGO ON AMBERGRIS CAYE BY ANGEL NUÑEZ

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What's All In A Sea Turtle?


In a previous article, we enjoyed the manner in which sea turtles or the loggerheads are captured. It is a simple art that came natural to most Sanpedranos. On a typical afternoon in May there were up to ten sailing boats trawling outside the reef and hunting for the monster "cawamos" as they were called in Spanish. By the end of the evening you could walk along the beach and see about ten loggerheads pulled up on the beach. Their fins would be tied or they could use them to flip over and swim back to sea. As children we used to find pleasure to molest these monstrous animals. We would hit them on the throat so that they would open their big mouths. When they did this, we would place a piece of stick in their mouths only to enjoy the pleasure of their strength and how they cracked the stick into two pieces.


Now, what all is in a sea turtle? What all is used from this animal. The meat only? Wrong. The cawamo is a very useful animal. Most of the meat is found at the base of the fins, of which there are four, two arms and two legs as we would say. Also edible and a delicacy are the fins, in stew or soup. Other parts that are edible are the small intestine which was called "la cinta", liver, pancreas, heart, esophagus, trachea, lungs, and some meat attached to the neck Occasionally you captured a pregnant turtle, or so we used to call her when there were immature eggs in her body. The immature eggs came in a bunch more or less like a bunch of grapes except that they were yellow like egg yolk. Now that was considered a real delicacy. When regular meat sold for ten cents (10) a pound, the eggs sold for about 25 cents a pound. The rest of the edible parts were not weighed along with the meat. It was given as extra to the buyer.

Answer 2

Yes I have! Frog legs are ok, it's not my favorite thing to eat, but if it is the only thing there, i might eat it. When i was little i was at some asian buffet and I thought they were chicken legs. I've eaten pigs feet before but i don't remember what they taste like. Octopus is good. Out of these three things i like octopus the most. If it is friend , grilled, or boiled it tastes fine. Make sure when you eat it, it is cooked the right way or else these things will taste disgusting.

Answer 3

the soft bits inside are probably edible, just kind of hard to get at, especially with a small turtle.

Answer 4

The QUELLA - shaped warts on the turtle's anus certainly aren't. Besides being too poisonous, they already are too ugly just to look at.

Answer 5

Everytrhing but the head, feet, entrails,shell & skin.
Cook it like you would chicken.

Answer 6

everything but the shell