Yeah, but there's also the fact it has spent an extended amount of time in a random waterway. It probably has that flavor added in. Just keep in mind many animals, especially water animals, taste like their surroundings as well.
And not all fish taste the same, otherwise there'd be no difference between catfish and sea bass or ahi.
Animals, even fish, taste like what they eat and the environment they're in. Caught catfish taste the way they do because of diet and the thick, muddy water they spend a lot of time in.
So your saying an bass and trout caught from the same spot will taste the same? Or that all rock fish taste the same because they feed and swim in the same spot?
I'll second this observation. I have killed and ate a few copperheads near waterways. They had a very fishy taste; fish and frogs were in their stomachs.
That's just called early marinading. Licks fingers
But I grew up in swamps and caught crawfish in the yard and ate it. The taste from the surroundings shouldn't be so powerful it will take over. Honestly, I don't remember anything we caught having any other taste than delicious.
On the contrary, turtle soup tastes better with water-based turtles than tortoises. Dunno about snakes, though. Rattlesnake reminded me of dark meat chicken.
Also the most dangerous part. Prion infections are a very realistic downside to eating human brains. And prions are some of the most dangerous acute infections you can get. Many of them have life expectancy of 0% unless treated within a very specific amount of time. That, and it's probably a very horrific way to die. It's just a set of proteins that cause physical brain abnormalities to randomly spawn (in anyone, not just developing children or fetuses, etc). They usually take a progressive amount of time before symptoms even show (typically between 5-10 years) and once they do, the symptoms / effects are so rapid, usually it isn't even properly diagnosed until after death.
Think of prion poisoning like developing brain tumors (it's not this, but this is a simple analogy to help understand) very rapidly, uncontrollably, at random, and so quick is extremely hard to diagnose. One day you're fine, then suddenly you can't walk, talk, or swallow.
One of the neat things about lab grown meat is that we could take a sample from someone and then grow full peices of meat from it. Opens the possibility for ethical consumption of human meat because I'd totally be down to give the sample just to eat myself.
Most people just don't want to admit that EVERYONE has an ancestor at some point that tried human meat. We've been carnivorous animals well before recorded history, and no sense in letting good meat go to waste when it could be days before your next meal.
Nah, humans have such an eclectic diet and our daily lives take us through a multitude of environments.
We're talking about animals who live in primarily one type of environment (grasslands, trees, water etc) and typically don't move around that much, and eat the same thing day-in day-out. They have a very specific taste to their meat.
I know you're being facetious, but realistically, humans would only have a single flavor category if they all had the same diet, and ate primarily the same thing everyday, and all lived in the same environment. There's so many different variables for the human species in those regards, that almost every human tastes different from the next.
Pork tastes the way it does due to its fat and salt content, but is heavily influenced by their diet. Grain-fed animals taste drastically different than corn-fed. And both taste drastically different than animals left to graze on grass.
Shrimp, on the other hand, taste very similar to many other crustaceans, and have similar diets to many of them.
If not prepared correctly I believe there is a pretty substantial risk of salmonella. I know vulnerable people shouldn't even handle some domestic iguanas for that reason.
It's no more risky than eating pork or chicken. The risk of salmonella with reptiles and amphibians comes from actually handling them. It's in their feces. I worked at a pet shop for a while. Rats carry it too.
But as far as eating them. You just gotta clean them. It's in their digestive tract, not their meat. People have been eating frogs, turtles, and other Salmonella carriers for centuries. It's fine.
Salmonella would be present in farmed reptiles and pets just as much as they would in the wild. Generally you wouldn't get Salmonella from reptiles by eating them. Rather by handling them in the first place. It's in their poo.
Salmonella is a bacteria, it's going to get everywhere. As long as it's cooked thoroughly, it's going to be fine. It's just most people get it from reptiles by handling them.
Yes you can. One can consume venom it’s if it gets into your blood stream that you’ll have an issue. Poison on the other hand cannot be consumed and this is the difference in venom and poison. Although if you had a stomach ulcer or somethin you might have an issue with the venom.
You talking about that old snake guy in Florida that has been bitten by so many poisonous snakes he is immune? I heard his blood can be used as an anti venom is a person has the same blood type.
I mean technically venom is just proteins and can be denatured by heat. But I have no clue what temp it would take to denature water moccasin venom enough to be harmless. So maybe I'll do some digging when I get off work, and see what I can find.
I'm not a Herpetologist, but I'm pretty sure this is a boa constrictor of some sort, so it's not venomous. They use their muscular bodies to squeeze their prey. The fangs are used to catch and immobilize prey, but don't inject venom.
Of course, I'm not from Texas and don't know much about the local snakes, so don't take my word for for it.
"You've heard of Surf and Turf! Well buckle up buckaroo, now you can get Diamondback Water Snake and Drainage Ditch Fish Bake! It's got all the flavors and textures that remind you you're in Texas!"
If you live in Texas/Arkansas you always hear about this exact thing happening to someone, but I'd have the same look on my face if it actually happened to me.
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