What "unusual" animals have you eaten?

Answer 1

DOES "ROADKILL" COUNT?
I have enjoyed many of what could be considered "unusual" animals over the years but, even more unusual perhaps is the admittedly "unorthodox" method I've used in obtaining many of these delightful and shall I say it? FREE culinary treats...
it's what's known to many as "roadkill". To me, I simply refer to them as delicious "opportunities".

Being a frequent highway traveler, it's normal to have some unfortunate creature run out in front of my vehicle and instead of just leaving the poor thing to rot there on the side of the road and it being very "fresh meat" as it were, I throw it in the cooler I keep for just such an event and voila!...dinner is served. And besides, this method of shopping does have the side effect of off-setting the high price of gasoline so, there are many advantages to looking out for my dinner "on the road".

Before your show of disapproval, remember that the meat is "fresh" and unprocessed using any harmful chemicals or even the threat of E Coli...I simply go back and pick it up off the road and into my cooler for preparation later.

Some of my favorites and (I admit now that I look for them in particular while traveling around, in the hope they will stray into my path) are Rabbit, Possum, Pheasant, and of course the always welcome Deer or Doe, giving me a large supply of meat for future meals. Sometimes Squirrel which I always hope to run across (pardon the pun) more than one, being they're so small and all.
Skunk? not so much....I leave that for anyone else who's tastes (again, pardon the pun) might be even a bit more exotic than mine.

Skinned, deboned and then shredded, many of these make for a delicious entre served along with fava beans, a fresh salad and nice bottle of Chianti....yummy!

Well, gotta go! Time for me to "hit the road" again...it's getting close to dinner time and unlike the ability of many of my victims...my stomach is beginning to "growl".

If you think you'd like to give it a try next time you hit the road, email me and I'll share a couple of my "special" recipes with you.

Answer 2

Wether it's animal cruelty or not, is just a matter of opinion. Personally I see nothing wrong with eating meat. I'm in agreement that today, most pigs are not happily wallowing in mud, and most chickens are not grazing on green pasture. I do think though, that the vegans have a extreme take on what they believe goes on inside their so called "factory farms". A lot of them watch one silly PETA video and suddenly they know everything behind their meat. They become convinced that all pigs are thrown into boiling water alive and all chickens have all their bones broken by the time thy are slaughtered. I understand that animals today are not raised back how they used to be, but it's nit the way PETA says it is either. Now let's say two diffrent people offer to sell you a carton of eggs. One carton comes from a large corporation and was laid by intensively reared chickens. The other comes form a small, local farmer, laid by chickens who lived on pasture. In the long run, both chickens will be slaughtered when they stop producing and both roosters hatched will be butchered. You can either buy the local eggs, the intensively farmed eggs or buy none at all. If you buy none, eventually the large farm will just put the local farm out of business. If you buy the local eggs you will help keep the local farmer running. Personally I would rather support small scale agriculture rather than nothing at all.

Answer 3

Squid.
Rabbit.

But the kicker is not that the squid is unusual (lots of people have eaten it). I got to clean it first. Yuck! I helped my dad clean it in the kitchen sink and then choked it down for dinner. It felt like I was eating rubber bands. I did it for Dad. I won't be doing it again.

Answer 4

I've had Kangaroo steak and it was some of the nicest meat I've ever tried. It's very lean. I've also tried Shark steak (like water), snails in France (meaty mushrooms) and had Barramundi in Australia.

The weirdest food I have had (sorry not an animal) was in Tokyo where we had no idea what we were eating!

Answer 5

A fish from Madeira!

A fish doesn't sound that unusual but i saw a pic of it after and it was the ugliest thing iv ever seen. Google it to see a picture its called the black scabbard fish (not sure on the spelling) but yeah its a nasty looking thing but tastes good! :)

Answer 6

Define unusual

Answer 7

I once ate part of a barbel (coarse fish) which is quite meaty. Perch too which was very bony. Sea trout and bass are the tastiest fish I have ever had.

Answer 8

Bear, Boar, buffalo, ostrich, sea cucumber, sea urchin, multiple bugs... what haven't I eaten? Monkey and cat.

Answer 9

Squid, is as unusual as I get

But wouldn't that technically be fish?

Answer 10

Cow