Gordon Ramsay turns viewers' stomachs as he tucks into SWAMP RAT stew... but he insists it's delicious!

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 22, 2020 | Rebecca Lawrence

[Getready]

.....and fish eggs...and chicken eggs....and thymus glands...bird saliva....frog legs...cow tongue...pigs knuckles...pig ears...rotten grapes(wine)...rotten milk (yogurt..cheeses.lebnah)...ox tail..a little nutria(long as its clean) won’t kill ya. Balute(filipino chick fermented embryos...feathers and all)....if you are hungry you eat it all....even dissolve the bones...

[TeddyRay]

https://www.thesoutherngrilles.com/about-the-southern-grille

Here’s the muskrat story on their About page. It’s a seasonal special/ winter. The place has great reviews and named best of Delaware for soul food in 2019. Hope Covid doesn’t shut them down... they were on the precipice of bankruptcy before the Restaurant Impissible episode.

[TMN78247]

I cannot say what muskrat tastes like BUT for certain Nutria (usually called RATS by Cajuns) is VERY good IF you know how to cook it.

When we lived in South LA & I worked for the security contractor at the refinery construction project in Marathon, we had a Cajun lady as an admin clerk, who fed us all manner of unlikely critters. ALL of her meals tasted GREAT.
(Our staff always said that LaDonna could make work boots taste good, with enough time, a brown roux, file & ladled over rice.)

NOTE: To avoid having to give everyone LONG breaks to drive into town for meals, we asked around & LaDonna volunteered that she & her 5 daughters would feed all of us all we could eat, for 1.50 per meal each.

Fwiw, it’s been my long experience that “city kitties” are “more than a little finicky” when it comes to unusual food BUT most of them, that I’ve met over the last 6+ decades, will eat raw oysters & raw fish, IF you call it a “fancy foreign name”.

Note: I once met & got to eat a meal that was prepared by Justin Wilson, the justly famous LA humorist. - IMO, he was an even better cook than a storyteller.

Yours, TMN78247

[EvilCapitalist]

I vacationed in the UK twice. The best food I had was always pub fare.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If you can afford that you can afford to take it to the professional store and clean people.