Rattle Snake

I looked at the pic of the WD Rattler in another post, and was reminded of a treat we would have in Arizona. My question is about eating rattlesnake. I sincerely hope no one is offended by this.

That first choice is meant to read: Yes, and I liked it.

Nope and never will. I will keep my yap shut at that :bye:

Fixed it for ya! ;)

And nope I don't think I would try it, but that's just me. I might, but I don't know. :imslow:

Depends on what type of rattlesnake it is :) Noone should ever take an animal if it is in low population in the area...and I never kill anything that I don't plan on eating...that is one of the rules of the jungle :D I have eatten alligator and frog a bunch of times...i prefer alligator over frog though...just never had the opportunity to eat rattlesnake (or turtle soup, although it is commonly eatten by my fellow swamp people)....and I would have no idea of how to cook rattlesnake if I wanted to try.....but given the opportunity, I would give it a try.

My family grew up in the country, so we ate a lot of what we trapped or killed when I was growing up. I was rasied to hunt and fish, but I would never kill something I won't eat. Just for the record I don't hunt or kill any snakes, never have. I just eat it at restaurants and family gatherings.

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

..and I would have no idea of how to cook rattlesnake if I wanted to try.....but given the opportunity, I would give it a try.

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I have had it deep fried and in soups. I have a great aunt that when ever I go to her house I eat what is put in front of me, but I never ask what it is until I am finished eating it. You don't want to know you're eating a coon/possum/squirrel/rabbit meat loaf until you're done with it. Trust me!

That is just sick rattlesnakes are the coolest how can u eat SNAKES!!!!

Sure I'd try it. I like trying exotic meats. I have had alligator, and it was tasty.

Honestly, if you eat any meat, how can you condemn a certain type? Now, granted, I'd never eat dog, but that's because I don't find it to be appetizing, I don't think people that DO eat dog are evil either.. except if they steal someone's pet to eat of course! ;)

I love snakes and all but given the oppurtunity and if it is not endangered i would eat just about any snake except a ball python of course........

i would never eat rattlesnake, even if i had the oppurtunity. its not like eating beef, some species of rattlesnake are endangered and i dont think its right to go out and catch wild snakes to eat them. if someone was breeding them for that perpose and not effecting the population in the wild i would have no problem with it.

...if you asked me if i wanted to eat ball python or bearded dragon (and they do eat them in their native lands)....i would have to decline....i am pretty much open to any 'new' type of food....but like shelby, eating something that you have kept as a pet is completely different...the reason is that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

Rattlesnakes are considered 'pests' in some areas and are even killed for the heck of it. So why not eat it? Atleast that way it would be dying for a reason. Unless the animals is directly threatening your life or you are using the meat as food, it should not be killed. That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

i agree i would never eat a species that i kept as a pet like ball pythons, snapping turtles (although i didnt really like them) Black rat snake, brazillian rainbow boa.... its just to hard to do

Well, I would eat a species I keep.. lol that sounds horrible. It doesn't bother me like eating dog would. :bleh:

I have kept pet crayfish, but I still enjoy eating the suckers! Same with catfish.. my pet catfish is my little buddy (er not so little anymore..) but boy do those guys taste good too! ;)

Yes I have. As a matter of fact the below picture of a diamond back was eaten by the two fellers holding it, one of which is me. I have come from a long line of folks who only eat what they kill, and as a "po" southern boy we ate all kinds of critters, kinda like the beverly hillbillys. lol
And I have also ate dog but when I was in Korea and I did not know what I was eating until I ate it, then they told me. Needles to say I didnt keep fido down for long.

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Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

...if you asked me if i wanted to eat ball python or bearded dragon (and they do eat them in their native lands)....i would have to decline....i am pretty much open to any 'new' type of food....but like shelby, eating something that you have kept as a pet is completely different...the reason is that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

Rattlesnakes are considered 'pests' in some areas and are even killed for the heck of it. So why not eat it? Atleast that way it would be dying for a reason. Unless the animals is directly threatening your life or you are using the meat as food, it should not be killed. That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

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I think I agree with most of what you say Daniel. I eat beef and pork and poultry cause most of them are bred for food, but I guess if I kept a cow as a pet I would give up eating steaks. I don't know, I just confuse myself royally when it comes to such issues:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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Like chicken :P :D

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

...that most people have emotional attachments to the animals that they have kept as pets.

That is how things work in nature....you don't see animals killing other animals just for the fun of it.

And of course people should not harm endangered animals :) NEVER!

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Ummmmmmm Yeah, it's tough to eat your best friend, but after selling my first pet pig at the Co. fair, I found it rather easy to eat 'em. Would I eat snake or possum???? NOPE. Do you know what POSSUMS eat???!??? Other possums! BLECK! :puke: They're always street pizzas here in the valley.

As for Daniel's comment about animals killing animals....Hmmmmmmm....Not necessarily "for the fun of it", but hyenas and lions will kill each other, not for food like most other animals, but because there is an instinctive hatred between the two species. Many documented cases where one would deliberately attack/kill the other w/o provocation. And they're not common, but occas. there will be a predator that kills for sport, instead of for food.

Personally, coming from a family that hunted responsibly I grew up on "wild" food and enjoyed it completely. My grandfather, bless his soul, taught us all that hunting is about respecting nature and her bounty and you eat what you kill....a waste not, want not gentleman. I also have a european sister-in-law who grew up eating horse meat. That upsets a lot of folks over here, but where she came from they are both an animal for sport and pets and also an animal used as a food source.

As a meating eating person, I don't condemn anyone's food choices as long as the harvesting of said animal is done in ways that do not waste the animal and do not affect it's numbers in it's wild state (if it's taken that way). I do condemn things like killing a black bear for it's gallbladder or an elephant for it's ivory but that is a whole other topic really. That sort of waste and disregard for nature sickens me!

Years ago I took a Native Studies course and participated in the time honored trapping, skinning and eating of beaver. I've never met a group of people that honored an animal in the ways the Oji-Cree peoples of northern Ontario do and their natural knowledge of animal management is astounding. They had it all figured out centuries before the Dept of Natural Resources was formed LOL. Oh and sweet and sour beaver isn't all that bad....I'd still rather have a Big Mac though LOL.


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Hrm.. out of curiosity, how did 'Fido' taste?

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A little stringy....but not bad until I found out what it was. All I can say is I would never have known if they had not told me. It was cooked with so much vegetables and rice that I just thought it tasted the way it did because it was a korean dish.... Kay-gogi. (sp) Gogi means meat...if I only knew at the time what Kay meant.....

I've talked to a chef from Mexico City who served rattlesnake and said that of all the animals he has ever cleaned, rattlesnake was by far the stinkiest, but when it comes to food, I'll try anything once, except maybe human, unless of course it was like an "Alive" type thing and I had no choice, then I probably would, by the way, don't you hate meandering run on sentences?

My biggest question would be what wine to serve with rattlesnake? A spicy zinfandel, a sumptuous merlot, hmm.....

Rachel

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Originally Posted by sweety314

Would I eat snake or possum???? NOPE. Do you know what POSSUMS eat???!??? Other possums! BLECK! :puke:

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Funny you should bring up Opossum. Yes I have eaten it to, did know what I was eating this time though it was not alone in the stew so I could not tell which was the Opossom. It is a stew called Mulligans Stew. It consists of just about any animal that is roaming these parts of Illinois. I believe this one had rabitt, squirrell, Opossom, raccoon, deer, chicken, beef, plus veggies and spices. I only tried this stew so that I would not hurt the host's feelings. Plus the Tequilla helped me to try it at the time.

There is pretty much nothing that I have'nt tried. I guess it's just how you have been raised.

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Originally Posted by RWillinnable

My biggest question would be what wine to serve with rattlesnake? A spicy zinfandel, a sumptuous merlot, hmm.....
Rachel

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Mad Dog 20/20 maybe? lol

There's a big ole possum that lives in the forest beside our house. I'd have to be darn hungry to consider munching him down. That's got to be the ugliest, meanest looking critter I've ever seen. He (or she) scares me way more than the resident skunk population or even a large raccoon!


~~Jo~~

nope, i love snakes

i remeber when i was small, i was visiting a country. and they had street markets. there was this woman who had a snake restraunt. she had cages jammed with snakes. n u can order a glass of snake blood, or eat the snake. very few people were in the restraunt though. but those that did order something. she took a snake. hooked it up to this beam so everyone can see it. and she cut the snake, near it's head and literally, ripped the skin off the snake. in one fluid motion. i was shocked.n the snake was still writhing in pain, n it looked naked. i was horrified...

Kizerk, I dont think I could eat a snake after watching that.

As far as a wine goes, rattlesnake tatses like chicken with a hint of venision when it's deep fried. So I would suggest a white wine or maybe a pink.

I did 3 months in the Marseille area of France back in '01. We had a chef at our hotel who taught us a lot about the the cooking styles and wines. Just a tip, you do not smell the cork. You look for green on the cork, if there is green you should send it back it means it wasn't bottled properly and you have mold. Always stick to wines that are bottled on the property for your best tasting wines.

eating rattlesnake is as offensive as eating some kind of a canine in another country. I guess i'm just one to try anything once, but then again i've never been actually presented with the opportunity. I dunno what i would do.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

There's a big ole possum that lives in the forest beside our house. I'd have to be darn hungry to consider munching him down. That's got to be the ugliest, meanest looking critter I've ever seen. He (or she) scares me way more than the resident skunk population or even a large raccoon!


~~Jo~~

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Jo, You ain't whistling Dixie!!! We have all 3 of them around here, in Western Oregon and possums are ugly, smelly things w/o ANY fear. One was on our front porch eating our cat food. I came just out the door and it only LOOKED at me! The only thing meaner is a REALLY BIG coon!! but the raccoon would have to be pretty DARN big!

NASTY THINGS!

First off I will not respond to any flame comments.
I have eaten rattle snake, gator, turtle soup, deer, wild rabbit, wild boar, bear, squarl (yes I made a stupid mistake shooting it and my grandpa was like "we dont shoot anythong we wont eat"), Bass, catfish, clam, shrimp, you name it so long as its not endangered I will eat it or atleast try it. Oh and I have had burmese Python about 8 years ago, wasn't bad but I know consider Burms as pets and well wouldnt eat them anymore.

Where did you eat burmese python? lol

I cooked some clam once that I caught in Michigan... tasted like sand.

I'll give "most" anything a try once. I've had Alligator, Squirrel Pot Pie (tasted like chicken), BBQ'd 'Coon (very good), Venison, Possum, Frog Legs, Calamari (Squid), and countless types of Sushi.


So yes, I'd give Rattlesnake a try!

You ate possum! Omg Robin did they run out of every other meat on the planet first LOL. Sorry, not meaning to be rude to any happy possum eating folks or anything but ack they scare me witless and just look like they'd be mean enough to bite me before I could bite them LOL.

Errrrr if anyone's in the mood for roast haunch of possum I have one in my side yard that you are VERY welcome to come get...really anytime....please.... *shudder*


~~Jo~~

Awwwww, oppossums are cute!! Especially as little babies. They're just big eyes and fluff with attitude. They hiss and bare their teeth like they're bad stuff, it's just so cute. Sorry, just remembering and missing those little boogers. :D

Little funny story about possums. Karl's mother had moved into a new apartment and she kept telling us she wasn't sure about it, because they had rats the size of cats there. Karl and I were leaving one night and finally caught a glimpse of one of her rats - it was a possum! LOL


Oh and Joanna, you know about the Cafe we have down here in the south, right? Roadside Cafe - You kill 'em, we grill 'em!

Yep I've seen their rather questionable "menu" LOL. She thought they were rats...omg....hahahahahahahaha! That's an insult to rats!

I swear the one that lives in our yard dislikes me...I've no idea why really. I'm just innocently standing outside and it wandered by and glared at me (I suspect it objected to the fact that I smoke outside....darn those health nut possums!)


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

(I suspect it objected to the fact that I smoke outside....darn those health nut possums!)

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I think maybe it just wants a cigarette of it's own! It's just going through withdrawl! LOL!! ;)

You forgot an option: Wouldnt under normal circumstances but would if stranded and needed to find food.

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