Posted on 07/02/2018 1:59:35 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Iguana by the pound While Asson and other South Florida iguana lovers can nab the lizards for free and with little difficulty, their peers in other states order iguana meat from companies such as Exotic Meat Markets. Anshu Pathak, owner of the California-based company, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he imports 10,000 pounds of iguana a month from Florida trappers.
He said he sells the meat to customers and restaurants across the United States, offering boneless meat for $59.99 per pound and whole, skin-on iguana for $49.99.
Pathak said his facility has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. When he receives live iguanas, he said, he puts them in a freezer to kill them
“If you’re going to participate in killing them, [iguana] is good enough, healthy enough and tasty enough that you should absolutely take the time to cook it, too,”
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
AT $59.99 s pound I will stick to a good old cheap T Bone.
Eating rules to observe: I don’t eat reptile or rodent
“Eating rules to observe: I don’t eat reptile or rodent.”
You just haven’t been hungry enough.
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Wish I was in Tijuana/Eating barbecued iguana....
Alligator’s some good eatin’ Hoss.
We are fortunate enough to have that choice!
Iguana, the other other white meat................
I will eat anything that doesn’t eat me first......................
“It tastes like chicken”
I’ll have the chicken.
Why the hell is it so expensive? I’ll have lobster and filet mignon for a fraction of the cost, thanks.
I’m not into eating any rodents other than rabbit-I’ve hunted and eaten squirrels, but they are not all that tasty-I like grilled rattlesnake, so I’m sure Iguana would be tasty, too. I ordered alligator once at a Cajun restaurant in far east Texas-it was not good enough for the expensive price in my opinion...
Freezing them to death is incredibly cruel.
No kidding.
bkmk
I thought about that-I wouldn’t put a live rabbit-or anything else-into the freezer to kill it slowly-I was taught to dispatch food animals quickly and humanely...
Don't disagree about that. Would prefer a pot of beans over rodent or reptile.
He can’t afford a more humane way to kill the iguanas?
at 59.99 you have to wonder why there are not more iguana farms. even if volume drives the price down it has to be cheaper to raise iguana than it is to raise beef cattle.
at 59.99 you have to wonder why there are not more iguana farms. even if volume drives the price down it has to be cheaper to raise iguana than it is to raise beef cattle.
or chickens
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