And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Waste of bacon.
ReplyDeleteBetter use: Make shoes and pocketbooks out of the gator and use the bacon for breakfast or BLTs.
DeleteIt'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.
ReplyDeleteBattered and deep fried tastes like...yeah. Personally, I avoid eating critters that eat other critters.
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding, bacon is like $6/lb
ReplyDeleteDon't eat no reptiles.
ReplyDeleteYou can have mine, thanks. . .
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteKinda hard on the gator.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear God -- NO.
ReplyDeleteGreat gooey gobs, it's up I chuck (Radar O'Reilly)
ReplyDeleteAs if gator wasn't already rich enough.
ReplyDeleteUsually, when a pig gets too close to a Gator, the pig is on the inside....
ReplyDelete"Don't eat Reptiles"
ReplyDeleteI've eaten snapping turtle many times.
Tastes just fine, so much so we went looking for them.
Just last night I read in the book Leviticus that lizards are permissable to eat.
DeleteI think the pythons in the gators and turn them into pet food or chicken food or fish food
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