Out of your comfort zone meat eating experience

Jmcc said:
I remember being told that Porcupine is great survival food.
They are one of the few animals humans are faster than.

You can kill one with nothing more than a big stick.
im assuming that cleaning it would be tricky, i know the belly has no quills.

ive shot a few but just jammed them down groundhog holes and covered in rocks.
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Porcupine is excellent and very easy to skin out. The weight of the quills really helps while skinning.


I’ve enjoyed every animal I’ve tried so far with the exception of salt water crocodile. I think a different recipe would change my mind though.
 
Witchetty grubs (still crawling, kinda weird)
Kangaroo
Alligator
Cougar
Lynx
Rattlesnake
Wild boar
Grizzly
Mountain goat
Mountain sheep
Beaver
Seal (didn’t like it)
Horse
Black bear
Moose
Mule deer
Whitetail
Squirrel
Snowshoe hare
Ruffed grouse
Spruce grouse
Sharp tail grouse
Elk
I’m sure there’s a few I’m forgetting. I’d have to be pretty hungry to eat seal meat on purpose again, and if I was doing the grubs again I’d like to try grilling them over a bed of coals for a minute or two. I think they’d be excellent like that.
 
When we kids, we shot a porcupine and cooked the legs in with potatoes, carrots. Boiled over a campfire. That was 60ish years ago. As I remember it, tasted pretty good. I never stray from beef, pork, deer, upland birds, moose. Just not my nature to eat oddball stuff.

I would starve rather than eat a raccoon. Even the ravens are smarter than that.
 
Jmcc said:
I remember being told that Porcupine is great survival food.
They are one of the few animals humans are faster than.

You can kill one with nothing more than a big stick.
im assuming that cleaning it would be tricky, i know the belly has no quills.

ive shot a few but just jammed them down groundhog holes and covered in rocks.
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Porcupine is a survival food because it’s only of the few meats humans can eat raw without getting sick(wouldn’t test that unless needed).

As for slower than a human, maybe a better statement would be not afraid enough to run away, those bastards are shockingly quick when they want to be, also killing with a stick.... I would make sure it was a long one, these things are nicknamed Satan’s pets, because they don’t die!!! Had one that quilled my dog last year and ate 3rounds of 00buck before I loaded a slug and finally dropped it... those things are worse than a grizzly for Fat Plugging the holes. Also hit one with 45/70 and after 3min was still claiming the tree, hit it again and it finally expired.
 
Foxer2373 said:
Porcupine is a survival food because it’s only of the few meats humans can eat raw without getting sick(wouldn’t test that unless needed).

As for slower than a human, maybe a better statement would be not afraid enough to run away, those bastards are shockingly quick when they want to be, also killing with a stick.... I would make sure it was a long one, these things are nicknamed Satan’s pets, because they don’t die!!! Had one that quilled my dog last year and ate 3rounds of 00buck before I loaded a slug and finally dropped it... those things are worse than a grizzly for Fat Plugging the holes. Also hit one with 45/70 and after 3min was still claiming the tree, hit it again and it finally expired.
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The whole Disney story when they tell us to hit their nose and they die real quick is BS
 
Waynetheman said:
This. Also sold as squab in Chinese places. Very dark and somewhat organy tasting.

Wildest things I’ve tried were raw horse and chicken and blow fish while travelling in Japan.

I’ve also tried many of the above things snakes, gators, ostrich game meats etc
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Squab is more specific than JUST pigeon, its a young pigeon, too young to fly, so they're more tender and not as dark as a full grown pigeon. Squab is a lot closer to chicken then a full grown pigeon shot out of the barn would be.

I think the most "out there" thing I've had is Camel? Tried Camel, Alligator, Kangaroo, and wild boar sliders at the PNE one year. They all tested like dry ground meat cooked on a char broiler though, so I can't really comment if it was any good because it tasted more like the preparation than the animal.

Had marlin in a taco in Mexico. Tasted like a fish taco.
 
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Horse - tried that in sausage form in South Africa - excellent and will definitely eat again
Crocodile - again in SA as a carpaccio and very tasty but does not taste like chicken
Warthog - fabulous
Ostrich - wonderful and like roast beef
Kudu - excellent
Black bear - very tasty
Muskrat - not bad
Beaver - tasty
Big Horn sheep - like beef and gives a great gravy
Caribou - makes a great stir fry
Guinea pig - or cuy in Peru - lots of work for not lots of meat but tasty. Like eating quail
Pheasant - the best bird to eat, so rich
Shark - can take it or leave it
Pirhanha - tried but not craving it
Alpaca - tough but tasty
Eel - love it, especially the way the cook it in Myanmar
Bamboo mussels - easy to eat
Ants - chocolate covered so not really sure what the taste is. Guy in the airport in Bucaramanga was selling them. Yelling out what I thought was "amigas" and chuckled at that then realized he said "hormigas" or ants.
Iguana - tried it in Colombia near Cartagena (they are as common as squirrels here in Canada) and will eat again
While not a meat - durian fruit - tried it, was okay but not craving it. My friends wife in Malaysia, CRAVED it. Crazy smell but not bad. I preferred the jackfruit
 
Many years ago a friend of mine was on an engineering study for a project way out there in the boonies of China. He was expected to dine with the local politicians. Brought in a screaming monkey, chef lopped the head off and then the top of the skull cap and gave him a spoon.

He said he'd been briefed by the CEO of his company that if he blew this deal... don't come back to Canada. So he dug in while the pols smiled. Licked his spoon and smiled back. Said it was kind of flavourless and bland. But made the deal and got a bonus.
 
They were $10 US each but they were tastey!

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I will eat pretty much anything so won’t list everything but haven’t seen (unless blind) river otter, pine marten or sharp shinned hawk listed.

I think cougar is one of my fav’s.

SCG
 
Bear is delicious, just saying. In Ontario it is against the law to allow bear meat to spoil, so someone has to keep and store it and presumably eat it at some point. Bear is one of my personal favorites of big game meat.
 
hoytcanon said:
Bear is delicious, just saying. In Ontario it is against the law to allow bear meat to spoil, so someone has to keep and store it and presumably eat it at some point. Bear is one of my personal favorites of big game meat.
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I find it has a similar texture to a well fed domestic pig.
Shoulder and rump roasts.
Of course it all depends on what Yogi was eating recently and early or late season.
Never had spring bear, so am assuming that will taste different.

I have eaten Linx in the past.
It had a slightly greasy texture, but no unpleasant flavour.
Of course freshly washed and prepped is the best way of course.
Oh and get your mind outta the gutter boyz.

Had skippy while in Australia , but found it fairly tough as it was done on the BBQ and likely would be better braised and again no real unappetizing flavour.
Hey Bryce, what’s been your most off the counter bush tucker been?

Rob
 
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