Royal python

I think that sounds better then bp. Bp is like calling a porcupine a spiky thing. :)

I gotta agree with ya on that one royal python sounds a lot more dignified.

That's why I named mine Rex ("The King"). :lol:

That's how my gopher got his name "Caesar." We had originally planned on getting a bp and I wanted to give him a regal name, so we chose Caesar. Then ended up getting the gopher instead, but my daughter still wanted to give him that name. I'll have to come up with something different when I eventually get a royal!

Hmmmm

royal-pythons.net hmmm

For those of you who read, why do they call them royal pythons?

Quiz time!

the pattern looks like a row of crowns on the sides. am i right? i never ead that anywhere...i just assumed.

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In Europe they are known as the royal python because of their latin name, Regius, which translates to royal, or royalty in English; hence the name royal python. They are better known as the ball python in the U.S.A and other places because of an interesting defense mechanism. When frightened a ball python will coil into a ball, with its head firmly stuck in between it’s coils. This helps to make the python a tough meal for any potential predator or attacker.

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aw man.....well....has anyone else noticed the crowns on the side?
p.s. regius meaning royal was gonna be my second guess....seriously!

Crown's and Alien's......Lot's of alien's

But why did they get the Latin name Regius?

I remember reading a report on them in Africa that mentioned that they are sacred to several tribes. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Of course balled up maybe you could ware one on your head as a crown ;)

I didn't know they were scared, I thought tribes ate them. Thats some pretty sick stuff, eating bp's...

Many people in America and central americas eat iguana. My husband did years ago when he traveld through Mexico. Said it was chewy.
Think about what they sell & eat throughout all the asian markets, in the east AND the west.
Crazy to think about, but it happens.
I wouldn't eat bp, but then again I am a very very finicky eater.
Rusty

Seems to me that every year at the Scout Fair one troop or another would have rattlesnake meat cooking for folks to sample. I never got the nerve up to try it myself, though.

Nowadays, I wouldn't simply because none of the reptiles are kosher.

I would tend to agree with you and no pursue it at this point.

WHen i was a kid in the Boy Scouts we found a 5' rattlesnake down by a stream and like the destructive little runts we were threw stones at it until dead, my dad and the scout leader made us clean and eat it since what we had effectively done was termed "a horrid waste" - have to say with lemon and pepper tasted better than chicken.

There used to be a Food Emporium in Rosslyn VA (Right across Key bridge from DC) where you could get all kinds of exotic frozen treats (the store touted itself as a Gourmet Safeway) includeing gator, rattlesnake and even Zebra if you can believe it. No I didnt partake.

When we were living in Miami my brother and I went to a Mikosukkee indian reservation and were fed alligator burgers - they ate a good deal of snake down there as well.

Don't remember seeing any on the menu while in India, but i was disgusted and horrified to learn that most of the "snake carmers" who had cobras in baskets had sewn the mouths of the cobras shut and apparently would simply replace the snake once it had starved. I did my own bit of worrying about running across cobras and wasn't disapointed in that department and had no qualms about killing them when they were found on the Embassy Compound (ton of little kids playing there). But seeing these sickly snakes with thier mouths sewn shut literally nauseated me.

I'll stick with chicken thanks :P

:mrgreen: Well......I myself have eaten rattlesnake more times then I can count. It was pretty much at least a once a month meal at my house. But it is all the way that you are brought up. It disgust's a lot of people, but it is done in alot of place's. Now, I would not eat a BP just for a simple fact that I was not brought up eating BP's. But im sure that if I was brought up in Africa where some eat them, I probably would.
I have eaten plenty of creatures that normally any person (except for those from that country) would not eat. The only one that I "Regurged" was the dog that I had eaten in Korea. I did not know that is what I was eating until after the fact. Then my "Buddies" decided to tell me what it was. Well, it didnt last long until I got rid of it.

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Think about what they sell & eat throughout all the asian markets, in the east AND the west.

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You cant immagine what they sell at these type of market's. Anything, and everything. But like I said, it is what they are accustomed to, and they have no "beef's" about it. Pun was intended there. If you find beef at a asian market, something is wrong. hahaha

I have a friend who was raised on beer and rattlesnake for Sunday dinner, and I've certainly eaten things that make the couple of times I've had gator look tame in comparison. I don't want to eat a bp, but I wasn't raised up with it as a food item. I've eaten crawdads, shrimp, and lobster plenty of times and every one of those is basically a big underwater cockroach. People eat cats (I've done it but that wasn't what I ordered or had any idea I was eating), dogs, oysters, bovine testicles, chitlins, grubs, boiled okra, and lots of other stuff that's way more disgusting than eating snake or lizard.

I can't say I've ever eaten anything outstandingly strange... I'm a big wuss. The only thing I eat that my friends are grossed out by is dulse (dried seaweed) that I get in Nova Scotia. Good stuff!

well ive eaten snails,frog legs, gator i really see no big deal in it as long as it taste good i will eat it i try to test new foods when i get the chance.

Ive eaten human........................hahahaha.(joke of course)

Jeez marla thats a pretty long list of creatures youve eaten, although the dog part doesnt sit too well with me :cry: Im kind of a dog lover. But at least it doesnt look like any of you guys will be "going off feed" any time soon! :lol:

I didn't say I've eaten all of those! I've had cat, but I didn't mean to. It was at a Chinese restaurant busted a few days later by the health dept. All I knew was that really wasn't the right texture for pork, and I couldn't eat much of it. :O

I have had gator, crawdads (mudbugs), lobster, crab, shrimp, clam, chicken feet, duck feet, liver, frog, catfish, octopus, squid, shark, scallops, and 9 Lives. That probably covers the unusual animals and/or bottom feeders that I've eaten, at least that's coming to me at the moment. My friend was raised on rattlesnake, my roomie has eaten a few kinds of bugs (crickets, ants, and ??), and my aunt used to fight her cousins over squirrel brains during the Depression.

I won't knowingly eat dog, cat, or anything else I'd have as a pet. Well, frog maybe, but I wouldn't eat a pet frog, and I wouldn't have a pet chicken. :)

My Grandmother use to want me to try chicken feet. What is the purpose of eating chicken feet? There is nothing there.....Just skin and bone..
On the weird side I have tried....Dog (didnt know thats what it was), Kangaroo (again, didnt know. was from a Jack in the Box in Texas that was soon shut down.), rattlesnake, shark, octopuss, squid, earth worms, gator, bear, turtle, allmost any edible sea creature, frog, crawdads, snail, sparrow (yes, the little bird), pig ears, chitlins, rocky mountain oysters, ostrich, elk, moose, crickets, grubs...the list can go on. I am pretty up to anything.....As long as I know what it is before consumming it.

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Originally Posted by Ironhead

My Grandmother use to want me to try chicken feet. What is the purpose of eating chicken feet? There is nothing there.....Just skin and bone...

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Having eaten both chicken feet and duck feet (to please others who wanted me to), I can assure you the experience is just as you expected. There's a tiny bit of meat inside the skin, not worth the effort. If I'm going to make the effort for that little meat, it had better be something tastier, like blue crab or spider crab. :)

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I have had gator, crawdads (mudbugs), lobster, crab, shrimp, clam, chicken feet, duck feet, liver, frog, catfish, octopus, squid, shark, scallops, and 9 Lives.

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9 Lives??? Is there a story behind that? LOL

The weirdest things I've eaten are cow's tongue, snails, and goat meat. Prepared the way it was, the tongue was actually quite good...but seeing it in its original packaging is pretty gross. But I guess that can be said of just about any meat, huh?

I never could bring myself to try cow tounge or brains...But yet I have eaten rocky mountain oysters and chitlins...Go figure.

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I have had gator, crawdads (mudbugs), lobster, crab, shrimp, clam, chicken feet, duck feet, liver, frog, catfish, octopus, squid, shark, scallops, and 9 Lives.

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9 Lives??? Is there a story behind that? LOL

The weirdest things I've eaten are cow's tongue, snails, and goat meat. Prepared the way it was, the tongue was actually quite good...but seeing it in its original packaging is pretty gross. But I guess that can be said of just about any meat, huh?

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Not much of a story behind the 9 Lives. I was a dumb kid, and there was a dare involved. 'Nuff said. Actually, it's not any worse than cheap pate'. My same friend who grew up eating rattlesnake also claims to have eaten quite a bit of cat food as a child. Go figure.

I've seen tongue in the farmer's market, and just seeing that is enough to make me want to never eat it. I'm sure there are a lot of meats that are better if you only encounter the finished form, but all those spiky taste buds .... yuck!

this has gone a little off topic :D

i ate a hamburger for lunch.

My aunt offered me a fish toungue sandwich when I was younger and after I politely refused, she threw it at me. Big, squishy, and jiggly....

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Originally Posted by daftperception

this has gone a little off topic :D

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Hehe....yeah....don't it make ya hungry??? :P

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My aunt offered me a fish toungue sandwich when I was younger and after I politely refused, she threw it at me. Big, squishy, and jiggly....

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Ahh, that reminds me....I have also eaten fish fins deep fried like potato chips. Everyone ought to try it. Delicious..At least it is using Bluegill fins. :mrgreen:

Obviously not a lot of observant Jewish people here... :D

i was in Uruguay south america where i was happily fed Cow intestine WHOLE. Grilled to perfection. Was not that good but then they served Cow Saliva Glands which was sooooooooooooo Delicous. I was very pleased but not so pleased when i found out you can't buy them in the states, they are resttricted by FDA. I hve had turtle, squirrel, intestines, monkey brains in india. They did not kill it right there in front of me like tradition calls for, but it was not pleasing to see a skull being aten out of.. I had one bite and was disgusted. Raw salmon is another treat i like. My stepmom opens up Ground beef and eats off it bit by bit while making hamburgers (GROSS)