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 ...
Before there were animal ethics boards, we took a biology course and dropped an iguana’s core temperature below freezing and then revived it. The experimental animals seemed to be ok with this - just a bit of frostbite on their stumpy tails.
When it comes to eating non-native species, I’m sticking with ring-necked pheasant.
Unless I get very hungry.
I prefer sautéed amphibian legs dipped in lemon butter.
5 oz @ $59.99/lb = $18.75 per can?
I’m thinking Popeyes.
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Iguana, the new oyster replacement!
But at sixty dollars a pound, Viagra may cost less.
We raised our own animals and the last thing they knew was the taste of delicious sweet feed.
Dad always waited until they just about done and were still looking forward to the last bit left in the pan and then *bang*, instantly gone.
They were happy, obviously focused on eating and enjoying themselves right to the end.
This prick with the lizards has either no brains or no soul.
Several times, people in my reptile forums said they’d “put down” a snake or lizard by freezing and the community collectively ripped them a new one.
And rightly so.
If you gotta do it, just hit their head with a rock or brick.
No way is iguana pareve!
I do hope you didn’t pay too much for your ‘Chicken in a Tree’.
Methinks it is counterfeit.
I’ve had rattlesnake - it really is reminiscent of chicken.....
Never had them that way, but it sounds good. Folks down here in the South have a tendency to fry them until they are really tough, but I like them if not too bad overdone.
maybe but a quick google search on iguana meat for sale turned up this:
https://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/Wild-Iguana-Meat-from-Puerto-Rico-s/214.htm
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