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November Rain

FF said " I've - had - frog - and - Gator."


Got it, now? I guess that means he's speaking from experience. But maybe I'm the one not getting it...



BTW, I don't see anything blasphemous in this thread. Steve Irwin, though a thoroughly good guy was not a saint, nor a deity, was he?

Was he a veggie?

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jizzybloke

I have eaten Alligator but can't really remember the flavour it was fecking chewy though!

Timber

"Never did find anything that will beat a big beef steak, or maybe a nice bunch of lobsters." - bg....agreed, wish I could get reasonably priced lobster here, the rock variety's ok but nothing beats big red. Regarding your selling slimy things but not eating them, 1st you must be a hell of a salesman to push a product you can't personally attest too, 2nd..you missed out man. A man with your level of culinary knowledge should open his horizons a bit. Anything can taste like shit if it's improperly prepared, especially these proteins in question. Trust me, there are good applications for these under appreciated amphibians and reptiles.

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El Gibbon

One of the finest meals I've encountered was on my first trip to Chengdu China. My country sales manager took me out for my first "REAL" Chinese meal.

Starter was a bowl of ice and rice wine which contained dozens and dozens of small/baby live shrimp, don't know if they were brine or not. The thought of eating live critters almost put me off, but what the hey, did it and it was great.

Main course coming up, guy walks in with a rice bag for me to inspect the contents: yep a 1 meter live cobra. Not wanting to give my sales guy a leg up I nodded and smiled. Shortly after some 'yom sings' a platter arrived. It was the skin of the cobra, sliced into small rings, marinated in rice wine and spice. Very very tasty, a little chewy but nice all the same. Next up was the meat of the snake and two small bowls, one of bile and the other blood from previously live critter. Passed on the liquids. The meat was fantastic, lightly sauteed in butter, garlic, basil and crushed black pepper.

Yep it tastes "like" chicken, a long skinny one with a weird flavor. A meal not easily forgotten.

E. G.

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walrus

I think momo's referring to the 'tastes like shit' reference NR.

I feel sure FF is not a poo eating sort of dude but then again, you never know ...

blackgang

That is you, I never eat either one of those, have never and will never. Fits in with the category of "Long Pig" as far as I be concerned. Same with Sea Turtles, I will catch em, butcher em, but will not eat em.

I gigged frogs for the fun and some people wanted to buy some, so be it, but was not how I made a living tho.

I have eaten so many Dungoness crabs and Mexican lobsters that you would thing I could never eat another, but let me get close and I show ya.
I hang out at the fish camps on Baja and traded for Lobsters, There you can trade one Playboy or about any Girly mag. for a dozen Lobsters, and fished commercially for Crabs on the N. Cal and Oregon coasts.

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friscofrankie

Are you kidding me? I've been married (and divorced) four fuckin times!

Timber

Ok, ok, I'll drop it. I agree with your standpoint on the Dungies. I lived in Oregon for a few years. Whenever I had time I'd make the trip out to the coasts to get em fresh out of the water. For those of you who don't know, this is the only way to eat crab. The Dungeness, in my opinion, is the most delicious crab out there. Its meat/shell ratio is second only to king crab and the flavor can be likened to lobster. Personally I prefer a good Dungie to an average lobster. I wish we could get them here. I used to buy them on the coast for 2$/lb.

Timber

This meal sounds absolutely amazing. If anyone knows where to get this sort of thing in the LOS please let me know.

walrus

Fark ! Frankie ! ... Masochistic verging on coprophagic !

blackgang

Me too, lots beter than lobster, especially if in the 1 to 2+ kilo range, small ones not so good, and the last I bought was in Yreka at Raleys for $6 a pound.

Go over to Tillamook bay or any of the bays and rent a boat and some pots and go fish them for a few dollars a day, bring em in and cook them at the place you rented the gear, makes for a nice weekend, sometimes rainy and cold, but what the hell.
Ya know, my youngest son went to that culinary school where you went but was in 1984 I believe it was, just after I got sober..

Texpat

Alligator sausage (cajun style) is much better than gator steak.

Timber

^I know what your saying. If I ever move back stateside it'll be to set up shop in Oregon. The food scene is incredible in Portland. WCI has been a household name there forever...how did your sons time there benefit him? Is he someone I might know in the PacWest food scene now?

momo8

This is not the 'usual' Chinese meal and usually bosses will take you out to experience it to impress,as it's expensive.

The good old Schichuan province meal starters are commonly known as 'Drunken Shrimp',absolutely delish (translate Chinese rice wine to Baijiou the rocketful equivalent to Thai Whisky.)Nothing compares to the weird feeling of swallowing crawly things,the Baijiou numbs the throat on their way down.

Eating Cobras is supposed to give you strength,I had the meat and skin prepared in a similar way to which you described but the offal was prepared in a soup.

White fungi similar to truffles accompanied the meal also and a selection of vegetables.We also had 'Hairy Crabs' from Shanghai on that occassion.

Not for the squeamish but got to try it once in a lifetime,Cobra is not bad.

blackgang

Timber said"how did your sons time there benefit him? Is he someone I might know in the PacWest food scene now?"

No, I am afraid not, He did work down in old town Portland and then went to Denver and then down to Florida and worked in Calif, and also up in the San Juans and just all over, he kind of got the travel urge from me I guess, but he died in 1997 in Calif.

Well bring some gator over and we use my stuff and make some cajun style croc sausage.,, only take a little while,, 2 days if ya want to smoke it..

Here something to go with the OP..

El Gibbon

Yeah, tried to get a 'tongue-in-cheek" flavor with the caps, but alas to non avail. I only covered the wilder parts of the meal since I didn't want to hi-jack the thread.

Schichuan is my favorite ethnic food in China.

E. G.

baldrick

Dungeness is also a fishing port at the end of the Herbert river in Far North Queensland whose outlet is at the bottom of the Hinchinbrook passage - co-incidently the mudcrabs there are known the be amongst the best and are full all year round - beautiful area

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