Monday, May 16, 2022

Bacon Gator - A delicacy in swamp country

 


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    1. Better use: Make shoes and pocketbooks out of the gator and use the bacon for breakfast or BLTs.

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  2. It's been skinned. Head and feets left as is for visual effect. Stuffed with swamp cabbage, smoked mullet, shrimp. I've eaten gator, didn't care for it. Dirty fish flavor and spongy.

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  3. Battered and deep fried tastes like...yeah. Personally, I avoid eating critters that eat other critters.

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  4. Are you kidding, bacon is like $6/lb

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  5. You can have mine, thanks. . .

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  6. I grew up next to the Okefenokee swamp. The only part of a gator that somewhat edible is the tail and it is very easy to screw it up. I also agree that is a waste of bacon.

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  7. I'm Cajun. I've eaten gator. I consider it a novelty, something that is served to wow the rubes, more than anything. Tastes like chicken? I'd rather chicken.

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  8. I don't think it tastes like chicken, it has a slightly musty kind of flavor that all reptiles that I've eaten seem to have (snake and turtle). I've had tail and gator balls (meatballs from the leg meat) and I wouldn't be eager to have it again, it's just not that great. Agree, misdemeanor waste of bacon.

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  9. Oh, dear God -- NO.

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  10. Great gooey gobs, it's up I chuck (Radar O'Reilly)

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  11. As if gator wasn't already rich enough.

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  12. Usually, when a pig gets too close to a Gator, the pig is on the inside....

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  13. "Don't eat Reptiles"
    I've eaten snapping turtle many times.
    Tastes just fine, so much so we went looking for them.

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    1. Just last night I read in the book Leviticus that lizards are permissable to eat.

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  14. I think the pythons in the gators and turn them into pet food or chicken food or fish food

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