[aruanan]

snake is not necessarily tough...as anyone from London who has eaten jellied eels can testify.....eel is the aquatic version of snake.

An aquatic snake is the aquatic version of a snake. An eel is a fish.

And it's sort of weird that for food he is primarily commenting on texture rather than taste. I've had fried grasshoppers, though, and although a little crunchy, the primary consideration was taste. They tasted great.

[Tax-chick]

They tasted great.

That's because they were fried!

[Salamander]

Snake meat would indeed be tough due the configuration of the musculature necessary for each rib to move each belly scale which is a snake's form of locomotion.

This is why the leg/shoulder/rump cuts of beef are tough.

The more the muscle is used, the 'harder' it gets.

[Brom says eating snakes is disgusting]