“The meat along the backbone is white, tender, juicy and delicious “
More than a few friends attended jungle training and tell of the delights of exotic feasts.
I suspect they had been without for some time and very hungry.
Have you partaken in said feast?
I went to SERE school in the Navy but they didn’t tell us they ran 120 people thru the same area every week; there really wasn’t much to “feast on.”
I had lizard in Saigon at a place on Cach Mang thang tam, a large mostly Vietnamese place. It was wonderful.