Maybe he and his buddies found a pregnant rattlesnake and gutted it for cooking, finding the eggs inside….and they just split up the rattlesnake eggs amongst themselves as a treat to swallow whole. Rattlesushi.
Funny you should mention that.
I saw an episode of Naked and Afraid last night (on DVR, so I don’t know when it was broadcast) where the man and woman did eat a Pygmy Rattlesnake, found that it had young inside, since they don’t lay eggs, but bear live young, and they ate them too!................