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James Howell Just wondering ?

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Old Roy

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In your postal tater post, you mention Armadillo as a food source. Is this actually true?or were you pulling someones chain ? How do you prepare it. To us Northerners it would be considered exotic food.

I went to a Wild Game feed one time at a local sportsmans club where I tried Bear, Moose , co ho salmon,mountain goat,(turned out to be tame goat)
and antelope along with some of our own game birds. No armadillo.

Up here we used to eat young Ground hog but Moms recipe has been long lost. and some would say that being a member of the rat family they'd never eat one. I forgot the exact way she did it but I know cutting off the "wild meat" around the flank, and soaking in salt water overnight was part of the process.breaded with her special herbs and spices, and deep fried -- Better than chicken.
 
Back in my Okie days we would quarter it, add a little butter and seasonings, place a thick slice of onion on it, wrap it in tin foil and bury it in the coals of the camp fire. Not bad, just make sure it gets cooked good. They carry some bad stuff if not healthy.

Also had opossum, all kinds of strange water fowl, turtles and several, umm.., things the SPCA would put a contract out on me for.
 
An armadillo is nothing more than a opossum on the half-shell.

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I wouldn't eat one at gun point.

However, if there's a market for armadillo meat, I'll become an instant millionaire!

Got more running around the farm than I can shake a stick at!
 
"wouldn't eat one at gun point" ---LOL

I thought they were vegetarians and insect eaters.
Ground hogs are vegetarians.

Possums are rotten meat scavengers.Ive heard some of them being eaten the same for Raccoon that it would take a pretty big cannon to convince me to eat either.

maybe armadillo wouldn't be that bad
 

you know why there are no armadillo's in virginia ? the _ thought they were possums on the halfshell and ate them all
 
Personally, I am a member of PETA.....


People Eating Tasty Animals!!!!!!

Now, with enough onions, peppers, and beer you can make most anything tasty. But, ONLY use ONE can of beer from a 12 pack. You might need the other 11 to get ya' brave enough to eat it.
 
way i heard it is God invented armordillers so Aggies would have something to eat on the half shell.
[my sis and bil are both aggies so this is one of my favorite ways to torment them]
 
Hoover Hogs (aka Nine banded Armadillo's) are fair eating if you can get past the smell. Dad was a Game Warden in Abilene, Texas in 50's & 60's and mom was a girl from the hills of East Tenn. She wanted to sample lots of the animals in Texas. We got the armadillo and finally got him skinned. Cooked like a pork roast with potatoes, carrots and onions was pretty tasty. Seemed to be awfully greasy. Should have seen the time that a skinned & dresssed rattlesnake started twitching when it hit the cold wash water. Mom was out the back door before the snake could drop from the counter to the floor. Yes, snake does taste like chicken but has lots and lots of bones. I figure that If you want something that tastes like chicken then get chicken. Lots of venison, antelope etc.
 
Are armadillos related to chuckwallas? Probably not. Chucks are lizards, not sure what critters armadillos are related to.

A friend of mine used to run a beer route down in Kansas. Said the owner of a tavern he called on was always cooking up strange stuff in the tavern and wouldn't tell you what it was until you sampled it.
 
Are armadillos related to chuckwallas? Probably not. Chucks are lizards, not sure what critters armadillos are related to.

A friend of mine used to run a beer route down in Kansas. Said the owner of a tavern he called on was always cooking up strange stuff in the tavern and wouldn't tell you what it was until you sampled it.
 
When I was on Taiwan, there was a place in PingTung that had a cage full of live snakes. You could pick out the one you wanted, and they'd kill it and cook it for you.

Never heard of any fellow Americans taking them up on it.
 
Some people eat opossum and nutria rat so what makes armadillo any different.

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The animals have long been considered a legitimate game animal in Mexico, and the practice of eating armadillos was adopted by residents of South Texas when the animal migrated there. During the Great Depression, East Texans stocked their larders with armadillos, which they called "Hoover hogs" because of the animal's supposed pork-like flavor (some say chicken-like) and because they considered President Herbert Hoover responsible for the depression. Currently, barbecued armadillo and armadillo chili are popular foods at various festivals in parts of Texas, Arkansas, and the southeastern United States.
Texas History online
 
Surprising how easy they are to catch after just one beer!

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(quoted from post at 19:30:00 11/01/10)

Possums are rotten meat scavengers.
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You sure got that right!

When I was a kid I seen a possum crawl out of a rotten cow's carcass one time.
If someone that eats possums had ever seen that, I would bet you they would never eat another one.
 
(quoted from post at 20:03:30 11/01/10) I heard that Armadillos are carriers of leprosy, one of the more loathsome diseases in human history.
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I've always heard that, but never actually heard of someone catching leprosy from an armadillo.
 
Haven't seen any lately But our Shop & Save used to carry Rattlesnake pickled in a jar.
 
I found it so sad when they closed the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin many years ago. All you had to do, was set a Lone Star down, and the little critters would sneak up, and you had him.... Oh well, now I have to hunt, seems in this county, they think using Lone Star is cheating....
 
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