To: spokeshave
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.
29 posted on
04/28/2012 6:58:23 AM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
They tasted great. That's because they were fried!
30 posted on
04/28/2012 7:03:35 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(Your bulk-rate supplier of colons and semicolons!)
To: aruanan; spokeshave
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]
41 posted on
04/28/2012 10:28:10 AM PDT by
Salamander
(Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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