Animals that are NOT good to eat

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Rocky Mountain Oysters!!!

I grew up in Wyoming and every year during branding season we would fry us up a plate of fresh cut oysters! I perfer them cooked, but have had one raw...taste like a chunky piece of snot. BUT if you cook them on the grill they are quite tasty!
 
You guys are doing duck wrong...

..you have to cook duck on a rotisserie. No other way to get the greasy out.
Buffalo only good as stew, in my opinion, same as bunnies.
 
steveracer, I'll bet that if you took the backstrap from a buffalo, cut it to about 3/4" steaks and grilled them slowly and used a butter/vinegar baste, it would be plumb scrumptious!

:), Art
 
Lamb?! The best meal I've ever eaten at a restaurant was lamb saag, an Indian dish. Lamb korma is also excellent. I've never heard anyone dislike lamb.

"Are the lambs silent for you now?"

"Yeah, and damn tasty too!"
 
Mutton

I just remembered once when I was a child someone gave my Dad a hunk of mutton, not lamb, but mutton. We (my sister and I) had never had mutton before and were somewhat happily expectant to give it a try.

That is until Dad tried to roast that stuff. The smell was so G-awful bad we made Dad load it in the car and take it over to the Uncle's house right now. It wasn’t even finished cooking.

S-
 
Not good to eat,

Waterbuck, javalina, Some pronghorn if they've been running and are all hyped up. I've had elk that wasn't fit for human consumption.

And the all time most gamey, stinking rotten, cat piss smelling ,evil meat in the world has to be Persian Ibex billy. That old billy smelled like the most concentrated rotten goat musk on the planet he tasted like it too. My dogs wouldn't eat it! Hell the shoulder mount stunk so bad I donated it to a local sporting goods store. Every time I walk in there I catch a faint whiff of that now 23 year old billy hanging on the wall. :barf: :barf:
 
I have had all sorts of critters but never have two different one taste the same. How do ppl figure rattler tastes like chicken. Or alligator like lobster.Even whitetail and muley have a different taste.






one shot one kill
 
Rocky Mountain Oysters!!!

I grew up in Wyoming and every year during branding season we would fry us up a plate of fresh cut oysters! I perfer them cooked, but have had one raw...taste like a chunky piece of snot. BUT if you cook them on the grill they are quite tasty!
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Wait 'till you try a foamy mug fresh from the tap!

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But anyways, I'd say my absolute favorite game animal to eat was American Buffalo. I ate a huge slab of prime rib and it was soooo good.

My least favorite I ever ate was Coyote. First off, it was kind of weird eating an animal that looked similar to my dog, plus the meat was greenish even though it was cooked only about an hour after the kill, and it tasted like what I can only describe as rotten bacon. I will NEVER eat coyote again in my life.

What I don't understand is people here saying that bear is bad. I've never had bear steak, but I had black bear sausage and ate it as a hotdog and it was DAMN good.
 
Rather a lot depends on the recent history of the critter. In high school, I hunted duck on San Diego Bay. Early in the season when the birds were fresh from the stubble fields of the central valley, they were very good eating. After a short time of feeding on the bay, they became nasty. So far as I know, coots are nasty always.

I have been subjected ("orientation" for first time hunters) to a taste test comparing head shot, dead-right-there whitetail and wounded, ran for miles venison. Wonderful and nasty, respectively.

Handling has a lot to do with flavor, too. Look at the extremes experienced elk hunters go to cooling carcasses in a hurry.
 
I heard Gar was nasty to eat-although I have spoke with some folks around here who said it was good.I have read that eating Gar eggs is deadly,though.:barf:
 
by Bwana John, I would not reccomend Puffer Fish.
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Oh to the contrary, blowfish tails are very good. Gone is the myth it's poisonous. Well it is but not the tails. My grandfather(an avid fisherman)gave me some back in the mid '80s when he was still around. Ummmm gooood.
Now snipe, no way.:eek:
 
Atlantic Blowfish are easy to clean, too. Make a cut straight down, behind the head, until you hit the backbone. Turn the edge of the knife towards the fish's tail and filet the meat off the top of the tail. Throw the rest away. This will leave you 2 boneless chunks of very good meat. They call it "chicken of the sea" in NC.

These aren't the only fish that's known as a puffer fish, btw. I've read some varieties are definitely poisonous.
 
Rattlesnake is good. At school, the Wildlife and Fisheries science department had a wild game dinner every spring. That's where I first ate it, and yeah, it tastes like chicken. :D

Tried to cook buffalo sucker fish once, too many interstitial bones. Don't care much for gar unless it's ground up into gar balls. Gars don't have balls, but you grind the meat up and roll it into balls to fry.:p Just thought I'd stop the wise cracks.

There are lots of poisonous plants and some poisonous fish. Not sure about mammals, though. Read once that any bird (though I'd not eat a buzzard) is edible. And, I also read that LaSalle, when he landed here in the late 1500s, shot and ate rosiate spoonbills and commented on how good they were.

I've eaten sandhill crane and it's great! I can only assume whooping cranes are equally good. Someone should cook what's left up and save the tax payers some major governmental waste. :rolleyes: Don't get caught, though.
 
The absolute best steak I ever had was a 23 oz. Buffalo ribeye served medium rare. Much leaner than beef, it tasted like a superbly aged filet.

Joe
 
..it does not seem to matter what it is, where it came from, or how long it has been dead....when my wife cooks it, it tastes just like chicken.:D
 
..it does not seem to matter what it is, where it came from, or how long it has been dead....when my wife cooks it, it tastes just like chicken.
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Was she over your shoulder when you said that? Or does she used Gold Builion chicken seasoning on everything she cooks?
 
Nastiest thing I ever had was an old boar coon, weighed about 30 pounds or so. Thing tasted like rotten fish, and tougher than all get out.

Porcupine is pretty good, but a real pain (LITERALLY!) to clean and skin.

I've had red squirrel once, and it didn't taste too bad, but it takes two to make a decent sandwich so I decided they weren't worth the effort.
 
Best:

Buffalo, by far... I envy anyone who gets to eat it on a regular basis...
Lamb is a tie, I guess.

Worst:

Swordfish... I tried some once and couldn't get the first bite down. I took it home and gave it to my dog, who promptly threw it up not 10 minutes after she ate it. Simply the greasiest fish I've ever tasted... Bad flavor and a wierd consistancy as well.

Goat wasnt the best thing on earth either.

I haven't had the chance to try a lot of things mentioned in this thread.
 
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