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4894633 No.4894633[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Hey, what does turtle taste like?

>> No.4894648

Supposedly, quite delicious. I recall them saying so on QI.

>> No.4894674

Reptiles tend to taste like chicken.

>> No.4894679

>>4894633
I've eaten quite a bit of turtle in Cambodia. It's mouth watering.
- Black meat similar to chicken in texture.
- the meat is very pleasant not overpowering in flavour.
- the gristle is yellow and is similar tasting to basic pho broth, has an almost stock like quality.
- as all they eat is grass the bile is drained into a shot glass and drunk. That tastes like how you'd imagine fermented grass.

The best way to describe it is it's like a greasy very very tender version of silky hen.

>> No.4894681

>>4894633
farm raised tastes like a very rich chicken flavor
wild caught has a weird "kiddy pool" after taste

>> No.4894701

>>4894633
Flavor of chicken, texture of fish. Similar to frog but gamey

>> No.4894706

>>4894701
I don't remember turtle (I've had it once a long, long time ago when I was a kid) but frog is the opposite: flavour of fish, texture of chicken.

>> No.4894936

>>4894633
Like dark meat poultry.

>> No.4895562

>>4894706
not the frogs i've eaten. I'm interested now. I eat bullfrog legs...they are flaky like cod. what about you?

>> No.4895607

>>4894633

I got one from the exotic butcher twenty minutes away. They have great seafood and burgers and jerky and whatever. I figured let's go turtle. Fucked if I know why.

Had no clue how to prepare it since I decided I didn't want turtle soup. I ended up boiling it to make it more tender. I probably over-boiled it. Then I breaded it with generic cajun seafood breading and fried it. Little meat chunks.

Has a distinctive aftertaste. A filthy algae-overgrown pond water in the middle of July kind of taste. I am sure that if it was prepared correctly it would be palatable.

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4895640

Rubbery.
...but i've only had it in a stew, so it might taste better some other way.

>mfw my brother tried to kill it by pulling its head out of the shell with some pliers and sawing its neck with a shitty kitchen knife

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>>4895562
Beats me. They're frog legs. I don't know the species beyond "green." We just call them "green frogs." The legs are like fish-flavoured chicken wings.
I eat them dusted in heavily salted flour and deep-fried then topped with lots of crushed peppercorn, deep-fried chili slices and crushed, crisp-fried garlic bits. Chinese-style.

Natively, they're tossed with a bit of flour and salt then sautéed with laurels in butter until barely cooked through, dressed with the zest and juice of one lemon then served with polenta.

>> No.4897106

>>4895670
I think that is what the French eat. I'd like to try them. In ky we gig the bullfrogs...its hard to find frog in restaurants its bush food

>> No.4897117

>>4894679
That sounds amazing. Why don't people eat this??

>> No.4897118

What does fish taste like? What does lizard taste like?

Seriously, depends on the fucking turtle.

>> No.4897120

>>4895562
>I eat bullfrog legs...they are flaky like cod

Probably because they're frozen. I've had fresh bullfrogs and they have a bit of chew and texture to them. Somewhere between the texture of fish and chicken.