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Snakes as Food

mowartmowart Member Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Can you eat them all like Rattlesnake? Do they taste similar (like Flounder)?
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have eaten plenty of rattlesnake but never any other types. But there would be no reason that they would not be edible.
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  • MFIMFI Member Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rattle snakes are an endangered species here in NY.. It is illegal to kill them ..
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  • slingerslinger Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is that why Chuck and Hillary are extant?
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  • mowartmowart Member Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In DC, I've ordered rattlesnake off the menu.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Ask an owl!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To me rattle snake tastes like froglegs which tastes like gator, which tastes like snapping turtle. All of the reptiles I have ever tasted taste the same to me, and all are edible. I am told monitor is not very tasty, so I do not guarantee all are good.

    There is a caveat however: some species of turtles, including box turtles, can eat species of mushrooms that are toxic to humans, and they do so with out harm. Eating those is not a good idea, they can be toxic to humans.
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  • WoundedWolfWoundedWolf Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A co-worker was showing me some pictures he took on a hike over Mother's Day, here in Northern Nevada. He stumbled across a rattler den. They were all balled up, doing their mating thing or whatever.

    He said several were probably 4-feet long and looked to be almost 4-inches in diameter.

    That's a lot of meat!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Less than you might imagine. About the only muscles large enough to eat run along the spine, outside the ribs. Such a snake would feed you, maybe two people, but not more. You are really only talking about 2 to 3 pounds live weight in a snake that size, and of course you know how much less goes in the freezer.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,483 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I ate some type of snake in China and drank a glass of snake wine.
    Not sure what kind either were.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The wine is usually Mamushi wine. The mamushi is a small pit viper (smaller than a copperhead) found in Korea, China and so on.

    The one you ate could have been anything from a rat snake to a krait. 5 snake banquets supposedly serve snakes of 5 species.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,483 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As I remember, it was not too bad, but not a choice I would make everyday.
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  • A J ChristA J Christ Member Posts: 7,534 ✭
    edited November -1
    What's the matter?

    Subway close down?

    I'd eat snake but would pretty hungry first. On the other hand, I'd eat snake before I'd eat possum to put that into perspective.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You is persnickity ain't ya AJ?

    Possum is alright, a little greasy.
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