A buddy of mine tells me alligator snappers are good eating.
They’re protected in Texas.
Maybe the young ones are, but how long would you need to stew a 100 y.o. piece of meat to make it palatable?
No matter how much oil, milk or honey you could add.
Yeah, I suspect that my old slow cooker would just start crying.
“A buddy of mine tells me alligator snappers are good eating.”
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They are definitely good eating. In the country during the spring, if you see two pick-up trucks stopped and looking at something in the middle of the road, they are probably discussing who saw the turtle first, and who gets to take it home to throw in a cooking pot (big iron pot over a hot fire until the shell comes off easily). It takes some work and a bit of time to cook into a turtle mull but well worth the effort.
Yes they are.
Friend of mine caught a 108lb Alligator snapper (logger head) near Freeport Texas. Not fun loading. Took it to a coonass crane operator that grew up in Southern Louisiana. When we showed it to him he broke into Creole, ran to his garage still hollering in Creole. Came back out of garage with hatchet and 2” dowel rod. Poke him in the mouth, the turtle bit into stick, pulled his head out and whack.
He started hollering again an his wife came out of house with big pot of boiling water, flipped it on back and started scalding it. In about 10 minutes they were done.
The coonass bbgd it and if you ever get a chance to eat some,do. It is great.
Oh note. When we dumped off guts and head. The head still had grip on stick and would not release.