Don,t worry about the crocs.....

bill12 · Guru

Don,t worry about the crocs.....

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Kids are delicious bill - especially those cuddly little ones - great on the spit roast!!!!!

Croc pie??? interesting - might taste good with corn and leek - yumm!!

Ma · Guru

I like kids but I don't think I could eat a full one though

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do with Crocodiles....

Beth54 · Guru

The little chubby one's would be the tastiest. As for the crocs, I'd like to try some one day.

Ma · Guru

Must admit, I was very hesitant when it came to tasting crocodile when we were at Mindl Markets in Darwin last year.

Was pleasantly surprised tasted quite nice and not at all like fish as I imagined it would have been.

Blue said that it wasn't the best he had tasted and if you get the meat and cook it yourself it is way nicer.

Beth54 · Guru

I'm not much of a connoisseur of non traditional meat. I know a lot of people will have a go at anything. I remember having Kangaroo tail stew at Grandma's, but these days I can't come at eating kangaroo, goat, veal or venison. I've had quail but think that's just silly, trying to eat that tiny little bird!

Ma · Guru

Beth, unless you have tried goat how do you know you wouldn't like it.

I could cook it and dish it up to you as roast lamb and it is highly unlikely that you would be able to tell the difference.

It is much healthier for you too as there is minimal cholesterol as there is very little fat on goat meat.

If you are ever down this way, let me know and I will arrange to do a baked dinner for you.

Mind you, you have to have a young one as the older they are the stronger the taste.

-- Edited by Ma on Thursday 6th of October 2011 04:19:14 PM

pauline · Guru

Agree with Ma young goat is very much like lamb and very tasty, I found croc quite bland and very much like chicken in texture. Needs a nice sauce with it me thinks.

Beth54 · Guru

It's not the taste Elaine, it's the thought of eating them. We had them for the milk when I was a kid, but they were like pets to me. I've had plenty of opprotunities to try it, but just can't. Same with veal,,, I ate veal once mistakenly and when I was told afterwards, I felt ill. It's silly I know, but it's like anything that's cute, I can't bear the thought of eating it.

I can understand the way vegetarians feel about eating meat, although I'm no veggie myself. I eat fish, beef, chicken and even lamb..don't ask me why I can eat a cute little lamb! disbelief It's okay, I won't be offended if you laugh at me.

Crocs would be different..they're not cute, they're ugly!

Boroma577 · Guru

Ma wrote:

I could cook it and dish it up to you as roast lamb

Ok, it's definitely off the menu for me then.....I very much dislike lamb.

I'd have a go at croc though.

-- Edited by Boroma577 on Thursday 6th of October 2011 05:11:06 PM

Ma · Guru

I used to breed goats, mostly just for colour, and when it was time to have goat for dinner, I would take the kids to the market, sell them and then buy some others and have them killed for dinner.

Couldn't stand the thought of eating something that had been running and jumping all round the paddock at home. The ones I bought I didn't know, so that was alright confuse

Beth54 · Guru

Ma wrote:
I used to breed goats, mostly just for colour, and when it was time to have goat for dinner, I would take the kids to the market, sell them and then buy some others and have them killed for dinner.
Couldn't stand the thought of eating something that had been running and jumping all round the paddock at home. The ones I bought I didn't know, so that was alright

See! I'm not crazy after all! wink biggrin

Boroma577 · Guru

Beth54 wrote:
See! I'm not crazy after all!

Of course you are not Beth

Nicholstones · Guru

I've bought goat occasionally and usually find it tough and difficult to cook. Was talking to someone recently who grew up in northern wa and she said that they lived on goat, but it had to be castrated before killing to make it tender. Have tried fruit bat in Vanuatu (a bit like rabbit, way too many tiny bones) and zebra in Tanzania (may as well eat shoe leather).

Ma · Guru

I would say that the goat you have eaten either hasn't been cooked properly or hasn't been castrated early enough to stop him from sowing his wild oats.

It doesn't take as long to cook as lamb and the chops only take a couple of minutes each side as they are really small.

Beth54 · Guru

Nicholstones wrote:
I've bought goat occasionally and usually find it tough and difficult to cook. Was talking to someone recently who grew up in northern wa and she said that they lived on goat, but it had to be castrated before killing to make it tender. Have tried fruit bat in Vanuatu (a bit like rabbit, way too many tiny bones) and zebra in Tanzania (may as well eat shoe leather).

eeewww...fruit bat? zebra? No way! disbelief

Ma · Guru

Think I would draw the line at fruit bat, zebra maybe.

I am nearly convinced that we ate dog when we were in Thailand some years ago.

The bones in it weren't exactly familiar...........tasted good whatever it was.

pauline · Guru

I have to agree with that.

Beth54 · Guru

I'd be no good going to another country. Besides being a little fussy about meat, my digestive problems means there's a lot of food I can't eat, particularly spicy. My daughter and s-i-l went to Thailand and s-i-l ate everything offered to him. I saw photo's of the strangest looking food. disbelief

Wombat 280 · Guru

Once they started to farm croc's for the skin and table market they took on the taste of chicken as that was all they got fed. Wild croc back when you could catch and kill your own had a completely different taste . The ones in permanent billabongs had that fishy taste but the ones that were free range had that strong game taste like wild geese has

Elle on Wheels · Guru

Yes farming alters the taste of various meats and fish. I cook a lot of kangaroo tail, the hunters normally throw them away so I get them for a couple of dollars. No fat and extremely nutritional with all that sinew. I love goat and have had it roasted in a wood fired oven, curried, slow cooked Italian style. It's really hard eating things you have raised although it is the most ethical way of having meat because you know you have given it a good life. I've managed to do it with chickens and ducks but not yet with animals.

03_troopy · Guru

I've eaten the coat of arms, and they both taste pretty good. As a matter of fact the mixed grill at the Bojangles Pub in Alice Springs is very tasty, Roo, Emu, Camel and croc. But as Others have said, the Croc is fairly bland. I've tried a few strange foods around the world, but if you're a bit squeamish at all, don't even think about balut in the Phillipines.

Google it if you dare.