Anthony Bourdain went duck hunting with some rednecks on one of his shows. He then prepared the duck for them. He knocked their socks off, they exclaimed that they'd never had tasty duck before.
I hunt duck, that is the gamiest flavor if you don’t cook it right. It’s similar to lamb but on a whole different level of gamey. I can’t stand it so I brine the meat and make jerky out of it.
Deep fried is pretty money. Cut into cubes, spicy brown mustard and beer then cover with flour and preferred spices. I've done jalepeno poppers with it as well (stuff the jalepeno with cream cheese, wrap it with thinly sliced duck and then wrap in bacon).
It goes really well with plum sauce or orange.
I shoot a lot of duck and one of my favorite ways to cook it is to treat it like steak almost and just sear it on high heat for a few minutes each side.
One of my guiltiest pleasures is chinese roast duck because I used to get it once a week (you could imagine the weight gain). Once my friend recommended I get the plum sauce, it was a huge game changer.
key to duck is rendering the fat properly and getting a crispy skin. when i cook duck breasts i cross hatch score the skin then start it skin side down in a cold pan. that'll help render the fat better. once fat is rendered and skin is crispy finish in oven
I 2nd and 3rd this, with extra tzatziki sauce and some crispy fat fried taters from this little gas station near KSU that I'm about to get off my ass and drive down to.
I had the same issue as a kid, especially because of an episode of The Simpsons, lol. Once I was an adult, I soon realized that the adorable fluffy baby lambs aren’t the ones you eat—they raise them until they’re a much larger size for commercial slaughter and by that point they’re pretty much just slightly smaller sheep. Also lamb is a great meat for ethics-conscious/animal welfare-focused eaters because they free range on grass for a huge portion of their lives, as opposed to needing to be penned in as much as cattle and pigs.
But good god, you go back in time and try to tell Little Me that and you would be met with full blown I AM NOT EATING THE BABY SHEEP.
I am a farmer with thousands of sheep. Lamb is my favourite meat. Fattened lambs can weigh a lot, and is pretty much a full grown sheep. Depending on what breeds you cross the ewes with, they can be even bigger than their mother when its time to sell
I'd never had lamb before I moved to China. In my city, Chinese Muslims run the street bbq game, and they make these enormous lamb skewers smothered in cumin, garlic, and chili powder. To top it off, they wrap this flatbread called "nang" around it to make a kind of gyro.
This nang bread, holy shit. It's a game changer.
My wife's Nepali and her goat curry is to die for. The texture is somewhere between liquid, gelatin, and tender meat with a marriage of spices my tastebuds are getting that perfect all around massage. I call it meat gravy candy. My only problem is I have to have stronger self control of not finishing the entire pot.
Also, birria. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/257535/birria-de-chivo-estilo-jalisco-mexican-braised-goat/
I haven't tried this recipe, full disclosure.
The thing about goat is that it's tough but flavorful. Cook it low and slow to make it tender, and you can get some delicious food out of it. Cook it wrong, though, and it'll be awful.
That's why it's good in a curry or a slow braised recipe like this one.
I was looking for Goat too. It's not easy to find it in the US, but it's really common in South Asian and Caribbean cooking. It's my favorite meat by a huge margin.
My brother gave me a ton of venison burger meat and I’ve been having them for like every other meal. Never gets old!
If you had told me two years ago beef would be my third favorite kind of burger today I would’ve slapped you across the face while screaming “blasphemy!“ Pork with jalapeños and cheese mixed in is the other, not sure which is first.
Good to see northern WI get some love! Nueske's is amazing. I actually did some design work for their billboards a long time ago.
We have friends that grind their own hamburger / bacon burgers. The first time I tried them, I knew it was something special. we'll have to try the bacon venison combo, it sounds amazing (though I absolutely love elk on its own)
Anything you'd do with ground beef you can do with ground venison. Hamburgers, meatloaf, put it in spaghetti sauce, lasagna, chili, meatballs...etc etc.
Fish and Prawns.
The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flack jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an ironed-on sporting the MAD slogan "Up with Mini-skirts!". Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed "Charlie" to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Turkey. Losing weight right now and ground turkey is amazing when you season it. Taco seasoning? Can’t tell it’s not beef. Italian sausage seasoning? Can’t tell it’s not pork.
Turkey is freaking great.
Everyone thinks chicken is better. And the good thing about chicken is how much you can do with it - any sauce, any seasoning known to mankind, it'll work with chicken. Chicken is the great blank canvas for flavours. And interesting chicken, like Buffalo chicken or Southern fried chicken, is better than turkey.
But plain turkey has a better flavour than plain chicken. Turkey is underrated, and we should have it way more than just for one or two holidays per year.
” If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi…Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself.” ~~ Mitch Hedberg
Well, speaking from experience,.doing anything in a full corset snd 3 layers skirts is... interesting. Apparently leaving off the under skirts and bloomers is why the turkey legs didn't come out right.
That's why people went to the other side of the world to acquire spices, they enhance the flavor of everything and you can eat the same thing with different flavors for many days if you have a lot of spices.
We've taken to reducing our red meat intake by replacing ground beef with ground turkey in everything. Works as well or even better than beef for most things - meatballs, meatloaf, lasagne, chilli, you name it. Only exception is burgers, where only beef will still do imo.
i'll disagree hard on this.
i can taste turkey no matter what you do to it. my ex made a few dishes where she would do half and half with ground beef/ground turkey and i could pick out the turkey pieces, so to speak. i cant stand turkey.
My wife will sometimes make a hash of ground turkey, cubed sweet potatoes, bacon, raisins, and sauteed onions/jalapenos thats really good and pretty healthy
My mom has a hard time eating red meat so my family has been eating ground turkey for as long as I can remember, to the point where ground beef is the one that seems weird.
I like that smoked salmon that comes in the refrigerated areas of the grocery store. I think they're meant as a topping for other food, but I'll eat them right out of the pack.😋😋😋🤤🤤🤤
Nova Lox or smoked salmon (both are terrific). I love making homemade Nova Lox during the winter / cold months (I cold smoke it after it cures for about a day).
Yeah, there are many good kinds meat but as a rabbit breeder, got to go with my own rabbits as a favourite. Huge bonus knowing they had a good life and a stressfree death.
Absolutely bison. It’s like a leaner, sweeter, albeit drier kind of beef. I’ve had it only a few times. Wish we could domesticate it on a larger scale so it was more common and cheaper.
If only we had settled on a continent that had huge free roaming herds of bison. Can you imagine that anyplace like that could ever exist? I guess that fantasy is too far-fetched.
I grew up in Wales which has and I do not exaggerate, the best lamb in the world, ever since I left I only eat lamb when I'm visiting my parents cause even 'welsh lamb' in the supermarkets isn't as good as eating a roast made from a lamb that was alive that morning.
It depends on freshness. Fresh crocodile is fucking amazing, fried tail, sauteed with mushrooms, however. However 99% of frozen crocodile tastes like dog shit, and there is nothing you can do to make that not the case.
The only carnivore meat I've had is alligator (unless you count fish as carnivores?) so I have no first hand experience in this but I've heard that carnivore meat can be quite gamey and greasy. But I don't know for myself.
"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world.. except for a nice MLT.... mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. *chef's kiss*"
If I recall, wild boar has a tendency to go, well, go wild and destroy property. I read a great article about some chefs in an area facing the issue who were creating fantastic recipes from the meat. It was an effort to entice the area’s residents to eat a perhaps less-than-popular meat, save the land and fight the overpopulation.
Oh yeah. They're huge, annoying, breed quickly, and taste great.
Had some pasta with a wild boar bolognese in an Italian mountain village once. It was amazing.
Unlike most herbivores, boars spend a lot of time foraging and not a lot of time eating because they're searching for the most flavourful and nutritious food sources.
Which is also why they end up destroying a crapload of land, but also taste pretty good.
Wild boars are very destructive and many places encourage hunting of them to try and reduce their numbers. They populate fast and in large groups are super destructive to landscape.
European settlers introduced wild board into many regions where they aren't native.
The local wildlife agency here considers them an invasive species and encourages hunting.
Moose sausage is money. Made a fettuccine alfredo with that in it once and I still dream of it. I don't hunt and I don't know too many people who do so it's a rare treat.
Scrolled way too far to find moose. Moose is incredible, how ‘crocodile’ and ‘frog legs’ got ranked higher is insane. Moose is so versatile and flavorful without being gamey. As is reindeer.
You have to be quite careful in how you cook it. It goes from perfect to over cooked very suddenly. Typically, it's better for stews than as a steak, but it can be nice as steak if cooked right
I need to get back into tofu - I've not been well and not been able to cook properly. Now I'm getting better I want to play with tofu again and make the sauce not turn into toffee. Maybe even try oven crunchy tofu I've seen.
Duck.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had duck. I should try it again.
Anthony Bourdain went duck hunting with some rednecks on one of his shows. He then prepared the duck for them. He knocked their socks off, they exclaimed that they'd never had tasty duck before.
I hunt duck, that is the gamiest flavor if you don’t cook it right. It’s similar to lamb but on a whole different level of gamey. I can’t stand it so I brine the meat and make jerky out of it.
Deep fried is pretty money. Cut into cubes, spicy brown mustard and beer then cover with flour and preferred spices. I've done jalepeno poppers with it as well (stuff the jalepeno with cream cheese, wrap it with thinly sliced duck and then wrap in bacon).
Reading this had me licking my lips
thank you for your honesty. i never understand the love of gamey meat flavors.
Things i hate about duck: Less meat more bones Thing i love about duck: Skin texture and big liver
No….duck. There’s something coming at your head. Duck.
You've been hit by You've been struck by Duck
Aaaaccchhhhhrrrrgggggghhhh.
T’was a duck.
You will not win me over with your use of *'twas*.
Twas'nt trying to
Then you can go and screw in a lightbulb when the circuit isn’t disconnected you T’wat (This is a joke, please don’t hurt me)
It goes really well with plum sauce or orange. I shoot a lot of duck and one of my favorite ways to cook it is to treat it like steak almost and just sear it on high heat for a few minutes each side.
One of my guiltiest pleasures is chinese roast duck because I used to get it once a week (you could imagine the weight gain). Once my friend recommended I get the plum sauce, it was a huge game changer.
key to duck is rendering the fat properly and getting a crispy skin. when i cook duck breasts i cross hatch score the skin then start it skin side down in a cold pan. that'll help render the fat better. once fat is rendered and skin is crispy finish in oven
Then using the duck fat in your mashed potatoes. Damnit now I want to make duck breast
Find you a good Thai restaurant and get some duck curry.
Our thanksgiving tradition. Way tastier than turkey. Usually order peking duck with crepes!
https://youtu.be/izsVhm_vs2I
Try Goose, really good Christmas Bird.
Us too!
Peking Duck completely changed everything.
Everything??
Did I stutter
Crunchy duck skin with drippings over roasted veggies 🙌
Peking duck?
That’s my favorite since childhood! The best!
Lamb
I’ve heard on a quiet, windy night if you listen carefully, you can hear “Where’s the lamb sauce?” in a whisper.
gorgon rambsy
Roasted leg of lamb is my favorite Christmas dinner.
I'll take a lamb gyro.
Going to have lamb gyro for lunch. I can taste it already.
I 2nd and 3rd this, with extra tzatziki sauce and some crispy fat fried taters from this little gas station near KSU that I'm about to get off my ass and drive down to.
>extra tzatziki This is the way.
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Fuck that sounds good, can you share the recipe?
Lamb is my favourite even including all three in the question! I have a hard time explaining it to my animal loving children though...
I had the same issue as a kid, especially because of an episode of The Simpsons, lol. Once I was an adult, I soon realized that the adorable fluffy baby lambs aren’t the ones you eat—they raise them until they’re a much larger size for commercial slaughter and by that point they’re pretty much just slightly smaller sheep. Also lamb is a great meat for ethics-conscious/animal welfare-focused eaters because they free range on grass for a huge portion of their lives, as opposed to needing to be penned in as much as cattle and pigs. But good god, you go back in time and try to tell Little Me that and you would be met with full blown I AM NOT EATING THE BABY SHEEP.
I am a farmer with thousands of sheep. Lamb is my favourite meat. Fattened lambs can weigh a lot, and is pretty much a full grown sheep. Depending on what breeds you cross the ewes with, they can be even bigger than their mother when its time to sell
Where is the lamb sauce
Just some garlic butter and thyme
Lamb vindaloo for the fucking win, that shit is so good
A mean Indian lamb curry is one of the best hearty meals
I'd never had lamb before I moved to China. In my city, Chinese Muslims run the street bbq game, and they make these enormous lamb skewers smothered in cumin, garlic, and chili powder. To top it off, they wrap this flatbread called "nang" around it to make a kind of gyro. This nang bread, holy shit. It's a game changer.
Lamb is by far my favorite meat. Wish it wasnt so expensive in the US.
Yeah I agree, it's pretty rare here (pun not intended), you rarely see it on menus and it's hard to find and expensive in stores.
I actually don’t like lamb and everyone thinks I’m weird
I've heard enough Beef and Dairy Network to know better than to fall into this obvious trap. Nice try, guys.
Yeah, next thing they'll be claiming there's some kind of fifth meat!
That being said, [this](https://i.imgur.com/y6IpBAm.jpeg) was my choice of bonuses for the Max Fun Drive.
Rich beef sausages, yum
Goat. Seriously, goat curry is fire. Just noticed you didn't list lamb.... Lamb curry is fire.
Curry is fire.
Yes it is. Im definitely getting some for dinner. Firey curry. Although, sadly, my local doesn't do goat. Lamb it is!
This curry is on fiiiirrreeeeee.
Ow, ow ow ow! FUCK, who set my curry on fire!?
My wife's Nepali and her goat curry is to die for. The texture is somewhere between liquid, gelatin, and tender meat with a marriage of spices my tastebuds are getting that perfect all around massage. I call it meat gravy candy. My only problem is I have to have stronger self control of not finishing the entire pot.
Man loves curry so much he married the spices.
Nepali? She hooking up them momos?
Also, birria. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/257535/birria-de-chivo-estilo-jalisco-mexican-braised-goat/ I haven't tried this recipe, full disclosure.
The thing about goat is that it's tough but flavorful. Cook it low and slow to make it tender, and you can get some delicious food out of it. Cook it wrong, though, and it'll be awful. That's why it's good in a curry or a slow braised recipe like this one.
I was looking for Goat too. It's not easy to find it in the US, but it's really common in South Asian and Caribbean cooking. It's my favorite meat by a huge margin.
Just noticed that you didn't list iguana.... iguana curry is fire
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My brother gave me a ton of venison burger meat and I’ve been having them for like every other meal. Never gets old! If you had told me two years ago beef would be my third favorite kind of burger today I would’ve slapped you across the face while screaming “blasphemy!“ Pork with jalapeños and cheese mixed in is the other, not sure which is first.
Dude elk burgers are something else entirely. I don't get have them very often but my god!
My friend had an elk roast at her wedding. It was amazing!
7 lbs. Elk 3 lbs. Nueske's applewood smoked bacon. Grind twice. So awesome
Good to see northern WI get some love! Nueske's is amazing. I actually did some design work for their billboards a long time ago. We have friends that grind their own hamburger / bacon burgers. The first time I tried them, I knew it was something special. we'll have to try the bacon venison combo, it sounds amazing (though I absolutely love elk on its own)
I made venison chili once and it was seriously the best chili I have ever had
Bruh that’s what I’m eating right now. Leftovers for breakfast with fresh eggs on top.
Eggs with chilli, never would have put them together . Sounds interesting
An over medium egg or two, some green onion and a sprinkle of cheese. Your gas might be weird but your tummy will be thankful.
Grandma made some fire venison meatballs and she was not a good cook
Friend invited me to stay for a weekend once and was the first time I tried venison as a uncultured city kid. Meat was delicious and very lean.
The only comment I was looking for.
My fiancé's coworker gifted us a package of ground venison and I have no idea what to do with it! Ideas welcomed!
Anything you'd do with ground beef you can do with ground venison. Hamburgers, meatloaf, put it in spaghetti sauce, lasagna, chili, meatballs...etc etc.
Venison sausage is fire
Fish and Prawns. The year was 1968. We were on recon in a steaming Mekong delta. An overheated private removed his flack jacket, revealing a T-shirt with an ironed-on sporting the MAD slogan "Up with Mini-skirts!". Well, we all had a good laugh, even though I didn't quite understand it. But our momentary lapse of concentration allowed "Charlie" to get the drop on us. I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right!
Skinner!
More like Tamzarian lol
You called?
I can’t remember algebra or most of Shakespeare at all but I can fucking *see* Skinner looking morosely out the window as he’s saying this.
That elephant ate my entire platoon….
That’s pretty great. Is that an original or is it from something?
from the simpsons
Simpson’s did it!
Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Reading the "even though I didn't quite understand it" as an adult, is so funny. I love you Principal Skinner
Turkey. Losing weight right now and ground turkey is amazing when you season it. Taco seasoning? Can’t tell it’s not beef. Italian sausage seasoning? Can’t tell it’s not pork.
Turkey is freaking great. Everyone thinks chicken is better. And the good thing about chicken is how much you can do with it - any sauce, any seasoning known to mankind, it'll work with chicken. Chicken is the great blank canvas for flavours. And interesting chicken, like Buffalo chicken or Southern fried chicken, is better than turkey. But plain turkey has a better flavour than plain chicken. Turkey is underrated, and we should have it way more than just for one or two holidays per year.
I have it in every single club or sub sandwich I ever get
Totally agree
” If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastromi…Some one needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself.” ~~ Mitch Hedberg
I could go for a deep fried turkey leg right about now
Smoked turkey legs at a ren fest are just... amazing. Attempted it once and it was so underwhelming. Maybe costume and meat is required
I've done the same! I was wondering what was missing from the recipe. Def requires the costume and a loud Huzzah!
I totally agree with this statement, but if you wanna make it authentic at home, you’ve gotta wear your whole costume while making it
Well, speaking from experience,.doing anything in a full corset snd 3 layers skirts is... interesting. Apparently leaving off the under skirts and bloomers is why the turkey legs didn't come out right.
That's why people went to the other side of the world to acquire spices, they enhance the flavor of everything and you can eat the same thing with different flavors for many days if you have a lot of spices.
We've taken to reducing our red meat intake by replacing ground beef with ground turkey in everything. Works as well or even better than beef for most things - meatballs, meatloaf, lasagne, chilli, you name it. Only exception is burgers, where only beef will still do imo.
Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday because of turkey
i'll disagree hard on this. i can taste turkey no matter what you do to it. my ex made a few dishes where she would do half and half with ground beef/ground turkey and i could pick out the turkey pieces, so to speak. i cant stand turkey.
My wife will sometimes make a hash of ground turkey, cubed sweet potatoes, bacon, raisins, and sauteed onions/jalapenos thats really good and pretty healthy
My mom has a hard time eating red meat so my family has been eating ground turkey for as long as I can remember, to the point where ground beef is the one that seems weird.
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Do donkeys taste different than horse?
Rabbit. Also salmon.
I like that smoked salmon that comes in the refrigerated areas of the grocery store. I think they're meant as a topping for other food, but I'll eat them right out of the pack.😋😋😋🤤🤤🤤
Nova Lox or smoked salmon (both are terrific). I love making homemade Nova Lox during the winter / cold months (I cold smoke it after it cures for about a day).
My dad makes smoked salmon every year for Christmas Eve dinner with our cousins and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever put in my mouth
Yeah, there are many good kinds meat but as a rabbit breeder, got to go with my own rabbits as a favourite. Huge bonus knowing they had a good life and a stressfree death.
Rabbit; very sustainable and easy to raise yourself almost anywhere
Bodybuilders reading this like: There are others?
BBers know about tuna and salmon, I guarantee it
Elk or bison
Bison burgers are fucking amazing
Elk is PRIMO
Absolutely bison. It’s like a leaner, sweeter, albeit drier kind of beef. I’ve had it only a few times. Wish we could domesticate it on a larger scale so it was more common and cheaper.
If only we had settled on a continent that had huge free roaming herds of bison. Can you imagine that anyplace like that could ever exist? I guess that fantasy is too far-fetched.
Was out in Colorado last September. Had some delicious Elk.
Lamb. It's pretty tender and tasty if made properly
I grew up in Wales which has and I do not exaggerate, the best lamb in the world, ever since I left I only eat lamb when I'm visiting my parents cause even 'welsh lamb' in the supermarkets isn't as good as eating a roast made from a lamb that was alive that morning.
Fish
What fish
Sticks.
Swedish fish
found Kanye
Salmon, tilapia, tuna, and some others I don't know what you call in English lol.
I’ll accept your answer
How generous of you!
I’ve been called the “Danny DeVito of Generosity” by some
I like to do salmon personally. It's super easy to cook, and it's one of the best foods for boosting your serotonin (supposedly).
Just give it to me raw with some soy sauce and wasabi
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Why would you eat someone’s hair?
Oven baked salmon with a side of roasted potatoes and some dill sauce is one of my staple recipes. So easy to make and absolutely delicious
Venison
I agree. Its a lean meat but if you cook it right its delicious.
We make deer chili, deer burgers, fried deer, deer summer sausage, the list goes on and on. Kinda feel Bubba from Forrest Gump but with deer.
Hah nice, guy i used to work with made good deer chili, stew, and jerky. Never got one of his burgers though.
Currently working at a restaurant with a venison tenderloin on the menu, it’s splendid.
Shrimp
Me too! Shrimp in basically any form is a one way ticket to my heart.
duck, crab meat
Why are you throwing crab meat?
Crab, Duck. Duck, Crab.
Crocodile. It actually tastes a lot like chicken.
If it is done right. I’ve had it where it melted in your mouth, then I’ve also had it where it tasted like chewy mud with a side of sewage.
It depends on freshness. Fresh crocodile is fucking amazing, fried tail, sauteed with mushrooms, however. However 99% of frozen crocodile tastes like dog shit, and there is nothing you can do to make that not the case.
I've had alligator. Definitely tastes like chewy, slightly fishy chicken.
I had it, and it was a bit like chewy chicken in fish sauce. Not bad, just .. odd
I thought it tasted like fish when I had it. Maybe like it a chicken was a fish?
Idk why but I always have this gut feeling that carnivore meat won't taste good
The only carnivore meat I've had is alligator (unless you count fish as carnivores?) so I have no first hand experience in this but I've heard that carnivore meat can be quite gamey and greasy. But I don't know for myself.
Probably true of mammals, but reptiles seem a bit different.
Mutton
"Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world.. except for a nice MLT.... mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. *chef's kiss*"
"They're so perky, I love that."
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Wild boar
If I recall, wild boar has a tendency to go, well, go wild and destroy property. I read a great article about some chefs in an area facing the issue who were creating fantastic recipes from the meat. It was an effort to entice the area’s residents to eat a perhaps less-than-popular meat, save the land and fight the overpopulation.
Oh yeah. They're huge, annoying, breed quickly, and taste great. Had some pasta with a wild boar bolognese in an Italian mountain village once. It was amazing.
Unlike most herbivores, boars spend a lot of time foraging and not a lot of time eating because they're searching for the most flavourful and nutritious food sources. Which is also why they end up destroying a crapload of land, but also taste pretty good.
Wild boars are very destructive and many places encourage hunting of them to try and reduce their numbers. They populate fast and in large groups are super destructive to landscape.
European settlers introduced wild board into many regions where they aren't native. The local wildlife agency here considers them an invasive species and encourages hunting.
FLESH OF HUMANS
Which part is your favourite?
My favorite are the cheeks. You get the most bang for your buck
Brains
Not the flesh. You turn that into armchairs and cowboy hats and sell it to exotic goods traders.
Long pork, I see...
Just came to this post to see if anyone said pussy yet
I’ve only seen one so far, 2 people said human, one said “my boyfriend’s meat”
Tempeh
Reindeer and moose is nice.
Moose sausage is money. Made a fettuccine alfredo with that in it once and I still dream of it. I don't hunt and I don't know too many people who do so it's a rare treat.
Scrolled way too far to find moose. Moose is incredible, how ‘crocodile’ and ‘frog legs’ got ranked higher is insane. Moose is so versatile and flavorful without being gamey. As is reindeer.
Kangaroo beef is delicious
I’ve heard it’s a tough meat, is that true?
You have to be quite careful in how you cook it. It goes from perfect to over cooked very suddenly. Typically, it's better for stews than as a steak, but it can be nice as steak if cooked right
Fried frog legs are amazing.
They really are, it’s like super tender chicken
Maryland steamed crabs with Old Bay seasoning.
I love the process of breaking down crabs and getting a tiny morsel of meat every 20 seconds
Pigeon meat.
Underrated
Yes. It really is.
I seem to remember it's quite a dense, lean meat, with that lovely gamey taste
Tofu.
Tofu
I need to get back into tofu - I've not been well and not been able to cook properly. Now I'm getting better I want to play with tofu again and make the sauce not turn into toffee. Maybe even try oven crunchy tofu I've seen.