Has anyone ever eaten donkey meat? How was it?

Question

I saw a travel program where the host was in Italy and ordered donkey steak at a bar and grill.

The devil is in the details. If I were in a place where eating donkey was common, I would not have to ask how donkey meat tastes. I saw donkey being eaten (by an American woman) on a tv show and was just wondering.

Answer 1

Donkey meat was a traditional "protein-adding" fare in ancient northern Italy's cereals and vegetables' based diet, and is nowadays very rarely used. Its taste is similar to horse meat, flavoury and sweetish due to slight sugar content but rather tough - tougher than horse meat.That's why it usually gets stewed and served with polenta (carbonade in Valdaosta,tapulon in northern Piedmont,stracotto in Parma), or minced to make sausages and salame, mixed in this case with pork and spices (salt, pepper and cloves in particular), or even airdried to be eaten thinly sliced (bresaola). There are more local recipes but the use of donkey meat is really rare, being replaced by horse meat - more easily found, or even beef - available everywhere.

Answer 2

No, I've never eaten donkey meat.

Answer 3

a friend of mine tried donkey meat, eel meat, and snake meat while on a trip in Japan. he said that the donkey meat had a very strong "gamey" taste, kind of like elk meat and lamb meat.

Answer 4

Are you in a place where horse/donkey meat is acceptable? I'm not there...but not to judge.Are you starving? Some places consider it a treat.

Answer 5

donkey meat tastes like lamb meat but it adds a hot feeling afterwards.


it is considered as an aphrodisiac.

Answer 6

I have NEVER eaten donkey before and i DON"T plan on eating it.

Answer 7

no offense, but...who wants 2 eat donkey meat???

Answer 8

You can eat almost any kind of meat, even Seagull. In Asian countries, they eat monkey and dog. Hmmmmmm

Answer 9

Never eat it, i guess it a require taste,problem takes some getting use to.

Answer 10

just a guess but a lot like horse