Have you ever eaten snake?

[Ax01]

A new use for everglades burmese? I smell a business opportunity!

i can taste the success!

The levels of mercury in their system are too high for human consumption.
just fyi
https://www.livescience.com/8528-mer...hons-menu.html

nevermind! i'll be investing in Sausage Butt brand snake sausages instead of dem steaks.

[Alter-Echo]

Geeze, sounds like the everglades have even worse problems than the pythons. Lol

[Ernie Mccracken]

Geeze, sounds like the everglades have even worse problems than the pythons. Lol

Florida is definitely the nutball capital of the country. I think it's the weather.

[bcr229]

nevermind! i'll be investing in Sausage Butt brand snake sausages instead of dem steaks.

There have been folks theorizing that snake meat may become a "thing" here in the US if we end up with a glut of retics and burms on the market in a few years as a result of the Lacey Act being gutted.

[Meerna]

I tried rattlesnake once. My dad's friend invited us to a fish fry and he caught a rattlesnake while he was setting up so he fried it up with the catfish. I preferred the catfish to be honest.

[djansen]

Had deep fried rattlesnake. It was pretty bland and chewy, not something I would go out of my way to eat again.
now frog legs are a different story...

[Hamsnacks]

I come from a background where in regards to meat we strictly only eat Herbavores, (Cows, Chicken, Non-Bird of Prey...) and/or any Seafood.

My question to the folks who have eaten Gators and Snake, I'm assuming to be safe you guys can't eat the meat medium or medium rare correct? Due to their diet, it would probably require you to cook the meat well done, is that right?

Just curious.

[Godzilla78]

I come from a background where in regards to meat we strictly only eat Herbavores, (Cows, Chicken, Non-Bird of Prey...) and/or any Seafood.

My question to the folks who have eaten Gators and Snake, I'm assuming to be safe you guys can't eat the meat medium or medium rare correct? Due to their diet, it would probably require you to cook the meat well done, is that right?

Just curious.

I dont see how their diet would have anything to do with it? I dont have a degree in biology, but tobthe best if my knowledge, eating meat doesn’t necessarily make a prey animal more dangerous to eat. ANY meat has a risk involved when not fully cooked. Heck, you can even get salmonella from plant food, if it is not sanitary. Sanitation is key.
eating herbivores only as a rule sounds more like a cultural taboo, rather than any scientific rationale behind it.

[Godzilla78]

I assume snake meat would be very tasty, if prepared properly, or nasty if prepared poorly, much like any game animal meat.

[Hamsnacks]

I dont see how their diet would have anything to do with it? I dont have a degree in biology, but tobthe best if my knowledge, eating meat doesn’t necessarily make a prey animal more dangerous to eat. ANY meat has a risk involved when not fully cooked. Heck, you can even get salmonella from plant food, if it is not sanitary. Sanitation is key.
eating herbivores only as a rule sounds more like a cultural taboo, rather than any scientific rationale behind it.

Oh the diet plays a huge role in terms of meat safety and how to handle/cook it. 100% sanitation is key. There is a reason you can cook a steak from a cow rare and not get sick, while if you ate pork rare you could get extremely sick. Of course, all meats have a risk. Let's say you have a deer that strictly eats grass just like it would in the wild, no added hormones or whatever drugs they use these days, and on the other hand, you have a snake that eats its regular diet of rats (which are carriers of many diseases) which do you think would be safer to eat rare? Definitely a lot of science behind it. Every meat has the right way of handling it and the wrong way.

I was only asking just to see how the folks ate theirs, not to say oh it's not healthy or clean to eat it. Just curious to know more info is all.