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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

Posted on 06/22/2020 10:05:14 AM PDT by C19fan

As a renowned foodie there aren't many dishes that could faze him. So Gordon Ramsay didn't think twice as he tucked into a swamp rat stew whilst filming his National Geographic series, Uncharted. The potty-mouthed chef, 53, helped catch and kill a semiaquatic rodent known as a coypu or nutria whilst in the Southern American state of Louisiana.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: food; louisiana; nutria; rodents
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To: TeddyRay

Wow...I think I’ll keep moving at 25mph right through - no stops.


41 posted on 06/22/2020 10:49:36 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: TeddyRay

Interesting, we used to trap them but no one ate them


42 posted on 06/22/2020 10:54:24 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: C19fan

I ate rat while living in the jungles of Southwest Colombia, back when I worked with Wycliffe Bible Translators. The Indian Tribe I was with ate it, and it was DELICIOUS.


43 posted on 06/22/2020 10:55:49 AM PDT by mostly_lies
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To: C19fan

I remember the late 1950s when all the TV stations were advertising for people to raise Cabana Nutria in their garages for the fur!

Like many other scams, such as worm farming, it failed.


44 posted on 06/22/2020 10:57:18 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Larry Lucido

45 posted on 06/22/2020 10:57:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: DannyTN

Thibodeau spots Little Boudreau walking down the road carrying a mud hen.
T. “What you doing with that mud hen?”
L.B. “Gonna eat him.”
T. “They good eat’n?”
L.B. “Better ‘n Owl.”


46 posted on 06/22/2020 10:58:32 AM PDT by calico_thompson (Vanity sarcasm)
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To: mostly_lies

Cant tell you how many times I have looked at meat on a grill and wondered what it was.
Who cares? If it tastes good, eat it!

I actually saw zimmerman get grossed out by a Lao dipping sauce that I have eaten!
Oh God! I could not get the taste out of my mouth LOL


47 posted on 06/22/2020 11:01:24 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: hsmomx3

He grew up with a non so good pop so he does make the extra effort and he does make the do chores etc.

His snobbery is shtick I think.

He definitely didn’t grow up upper crust

I read that he has an eye for the women but I guess she figures as long as he comes home at night that’s fine

some women think that way...crazy but it is what it is


48 posted on 06/22/2020 11:02:31 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: C19fan

I saw that epi. Can’t remember the name of the show/host/chef.

However, I do remember the local woman saying it’s important to remove the scent gland(s) or the like, before cooking.


49 posted on 06/22/2020 11:07:31 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: C19fan

I’m a native of New Orleans, and still live in southeast Louisiana. Originally imported from South America, nutria have been a problem ever since being released in the early 1900s. They are prolific breeders, and eat vegetation voraciously, including the roots. They also burrow into levees and canal banks, causing erosion and weakening.

While they are a concern wherever they go, Louisiana has been hit the hardest. Back in the 1990s our nutria problem made national news, as local authorities considered various ways of controlling them. One of the most successful methods was done in Jefferson Parish by then sheriff Harry Lee. He assigned deputies to hunt the nutria with .22 caliber rifles. This was safe and humane, without any collateral damage which would result from poisons or traps. It also allowed his deputies to hone their marksmanship skills.

Around the same time some restaurants tried introducing nutria meat to their menus, calling it “marsh rabbit.” That was not successful. One company announced that it had signed a trade deal with China to export millions of pounds of nutria meat, but I believe that fell through. I also think an attempt was made to market nutria fur, also without success.

Back then I was a volunteer staff diver at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, something I did for 20 years. Another volunteer there was a colorful Cajun fellow named Art. Among other things, he had been a licensed alligator trapper, and wore a huge alligator tooth on a necklace. In 1996 I happened to turn on an evening network news magazine show, and they were covering the nutria story, including how Jefferson Parish was dealing with them. The reporter then brought in a local expert, and it was none other than Art! I sat and watched him give his informed opinions, and humorous stories, right there on national television.

Occasionally we would have continuing education events at the Aquarium, which were done as potluck dinners. Art and I attended these often. On two occasions he brought dishes cooked with nutria meat. One was a stew, the other a gumbo. I ate both, and was stunned at how delicious it was. Unlike some other wild game, it had no gamey flavor whatsoever. It was very lean, and literally tasted like chicken. I’m actually surprised that it never took off as a food source, but I suppose it’s because many people can’t get over the animal’s resemblance to a rat. (Yet people eat snails and raw oysters, go figure...)


50 posted on 06/22/2020 11:27:56 AM PDT by gbunch
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To: dp0622

I didn’t know that about the women. Gosh, his wife is plenty busy now that they have a toddler but that must hurt to know your husband may be having affairs.


51 posted on 06/22/2020 11:28:07 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: dfwgator

That clip was awesome and yes, I could picture Gordon just like that boy!


52 posted on 06/22/2020 11:29:33 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: C19fan
... in the Southern American state of Louisiana.

Anybody else find this usage inelegant or cumbersome? A too fast read puts the mind down to South America, yet the best substitute approximation I can come up with is " in the Southern US state of Louisiana." It is amusing yet odd that that after 244 years of existance, we, & the world, have yet to get a properly unique & specific identifier for residents of these United States of America.

Many Brits, ie. residents of the British Isles, use the colloquial term of 'Yanks' for us but saying 'the Southern Yank state' grates exceedingly and VERY pedantically, use of 'US' instead of 'USofA' could mean Mexico as its official name is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" which translates as "United States of Mexico" in English. Also, for a reasonable period of their history, Brazil's full appellation was (English) "United States of Brazil".

Thanks to an Italian explorer and a German cartographer, the entire Western Hemisphere is America, subdivided into North, Central and South divisions, so is it that Canadians & Brazilians (etc.) aren't Americans? Where oh where is the felicitous term for us poor Unitedstatesians?

And yes, I am suffering from confinement and pedantic-ism is a symptom of the condition! Thus, this is your, alas poor reader, pain of the day. SMILE!

53 posted on 06/22/2020 11:30:30 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: hsmomx3

Ah, rumors are just that. I’ve not been in the room :)

And she is beautiful and tough so she may have put a stop to it.

I know guys with wives that look like models and they still cheat.

But you know the old saying, for every gorgeous woman out there, there is a guy that’s sick of kissing her.

That’s the clean version. The dirty one is not needed.

Of course the dirty one is more true to fact! :)


54 posted on 06/22/2020 11:33:56 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: dp0622

She does seem tough and I think I would give her a little more credit as to how the kids have been raised since he seems to be gone a lot of the time.


55 posted on 06/22/2020 11:35:37 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: C19fan
Nutria are a major invasive and destructive pest in Louisiana and other venues in the US. Gordon Ramsay may think them delicious, but I want the opinion of Troy Landry from Swamp People.
56 posted on 06/22/2020 11:36:18 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: hsmomx3

Um...give her a lot more...you’re right.


57 posted on 06/22/2020 11:39:41 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: C19fan

Vegetarian rodents are perfectly fine to eat. Urban rodents who eat garbage and live in filth, not so much.


58 posted on 06/22/2020 12:02:24 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: C19fan

There used to be a muskrat jubilee day in Delaware, in the general Dover-Smyrna area every fall. Around November IIRC.. There was a muskrat skinning contest, and stands all over the place with various local muskrat dishes for sale to be enjoyed. I never had any, but I’ve had alligator, and liked it.


59 posted on 06/22/2020 1:03:38 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: TeddyRay

Thanks for the tip. I’ve entered in into my phone notepad. After this covid fad passes, I will make it point to visit Ellendale.


60 posted on 06/22/2020 1:16:09 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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