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Does anyone here have any experience with cooking and/or eating alligator?
What does it taste like?

>> No.10565949

I'm curious about this as well as shark.

>> No.10565964

>>10565926
Tastes like a rooster fucked a lobster, about that texture too.

>>10565949
Unless you've done something to clean it, it tastes like piss. Skate too. Strong ammonia. Poor butchery practices will make it worse, and Asians encourage it because some of them like that.

>> No.10565965

>>10565926
I've only ever had alligator tail, and it's not very good.

everywhere I've seen it on a menu it's just fried in some kind of batter.

I've heard shark is pretty tough and gross as well no matter how you cook it; you never see it on any menu and the only place I've actually seen it in a store is foreign markets.

>> No.10565980

>>10565965
They sell shark at Publix. Makes me more curious.

>> No.10565993

>>10565926
cajunfag here. it's like a fishy pork

>> No.10566288
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>>10565926
>>10565949
neither are worth the trouble, I've had both. people just eat it because it's "exotic game" and then never bother eating it again. I've had blacktip and nurse shark a few times because we'd always unintentionally catch them but gator only once.

>> No.10566318

>>10565949
I'm almost certain I've had shark. It tastes like more metallic fish. Granted it was in a fish taco, and the guy was trying to pass it off as fish, so that might not be indicative of what it's actually like.

>> No.10566374

>>10566318
was the guy mexican? he probably used an unseasoned cast iron pan,

>> No.10566388

Gator tastes like slightly "gamey" chicken when cooked correctly and shark is excellent but only when purchased and eaten fresh. I prefer it with lemon and grilled.

>> No.10566396

>>10565949
My local diner recently sold shark. It just tasted like the fish inside fish sticks. It's not because that diner doesn't know how to cook fish either, their tilapia is top tier.

>> No.10566401

>>10566288
s4s dubs checking crew is in town, however I still hate your post and therefore you're self. nice doubles though.

>> No.10566410

>>10566388
s4s dubs checking crew is in town, however I still hate your post and therefore you're self. nice doubles though.

>> No.10566467
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10566467

Any of you guys ever try snake?

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>>10566467

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>>10565926
It's pretty damn good fried.

>> No.10566486

>>10565993
This

>> No.10566498

>>10565926
People usually only eat the tail
They make decent sausage out of it or even boudin in louisiana, or florida, but most just batter and fry it into smallish tidbits and serve like chicken tenders with dipping sauce. It tastes like chicken with a hint of muddy catfish. Some people only taste chicken. I taste fish and not in a good way like turtle meat which is beefy fishy.

>> No.10566500

>>10566498
what does that even mean, it's not even correct. every fish tastes different there is no such thing as "fishy" taste.

>> No.10567688

>>10565964
hahaha

>> No.10567709

>>10565980
>They sell shark at Publix
Fuck, since when? How have I never seen this?

>> No.10567710

>>10566500
retard alert. every fish tastes different but if you eat any fish blind you still know you're eating fish.

>> No.10567718

"Let's just kill and eat this endangered species for no fucking reason"

Americans, everyone.

>> No.10567737

>>10567718
>gators
>endangered
Come down to Florida, Yuroboy

>> No.10567763

>>10567718
>american alligators
>endangered
Yuropoor education, everyone.

>> No.10567766

>>10565926
Gator tastes like a weird cross between catfish and chicken. I've never had shark.

>> No.10568168

>>10567718
Wildlife biologists do population samples every year and establish the legal hunting season and bag limits based on those samples. You might as well call deer endangered, lol!

>> No.10568206

>>10567718
>survived the kt extinction event
>haven't changed in tens of millions of years, nature's ultimate cold-blooded killing machine

>ever going extinct

lol

>> No.10568225

>>10567709
Depends on the store's seafood department. You have to marinate it before eating it though. I usually get Blacktip from Florida.

>> No.10568763

Fried gator tail is on the menu of basically every seafood restaurant in Florida.
The good places will usually do whole gators for special events.

>> No.10568781

>>10568225
I need to start looking harder when I'm at publix. I live in PBC though, so maybe they just don't have any here.

>> No.10568791

>>10567718
hasn't been endangered since 1986. ok grandpa, enough computer time for now.

>> No.10568842

its pretty tasty, like a fishy chicken, but i dont eat it because its an unclean meat

>> No.10569092

>>10565926
Soft fishy chicken.

>> No.10569114

>>10568781
ive seen it in the little freezer by the seafood section in publix

>> No.10569642

>>10567718
there are literal gator farms as well as all the other info from more educated replies to this post.
You should try some gator nuggets one day, friend.

>> No.10569969

>>10568842
We don't like your kind here

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>>10566467
How could you ever eat a snake? They are based and get along with other animals.

>> No.10570332

I'll take the alligator, and make it snappy

>> No.10570579

>>10565949
Shark tastes a bit like fishsticks and the texture is rather meaty than fishy.

>> No.10570604

>>10570311
This, snakes absolutely love dog.

>> No.10570623

>>10565964
Interesting you say that, Id say they had a three way and included a vealish cow baby. But damn it's tasty.

>> No.10570650

>>10570311
pls no

>> No.10570730

>>10570311
MODS, that's /b/ tier shit right there!

>> No.10570761

Crocodile is probably similar and that tastes like Chicken x Pork.

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>>10565926
I had tail fried with some kind of sauce and a side of plantains outside of Miami, FL near the Everglades. It tasted a lot like chicken but had this fishy aftertaste that was completely off-putting an very unpleasant, pretty much ruined it. When I say "fried" it wasn't deep fried, then it may have been a bit better, but I had always wanted to try it but after this experience I would not go out of my way to eat it, make it, and would choose chicken over it without thinking twice.

I reveled in that I had just seen a ton of those things crawling around the everglades that I wouldn't have gone near, only to have on on a little tray in front of me, but it got me super sick and ruined the rest of my weekend trip.

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>>10570604
Here is pic of snake kissing the dog

>> No.10570836

>>10565926
I've had alligator, rattlesnake, iguana, turtle. Reptiles don't taste very good, but turtle soup is edible, because the meat is well masked by other flavors.

Shark does in fact taste like fish, but more glutenous in texture. Why people consume whale, outside of starvation, is beyond me.

>> No.10570865

>>10565926
I was going to say it tastes like rattlesnake, but
>>10567766 describes it better.
It is really chewy, even when young.
The fun part is when you come home to an empty house and someone has left a fresh tail in the the fridge.
They can jump around for a long time.
Well, gotta go, time for my banjo practice.