One drawback from living in the South

[cudahob]

Baby, the other white meat. 

 

[Super Blue 72]

 

[Carlwalski]

Baby, the other white meat. 

 

The scary thing is, one of them isn't a photo shop.  Bloody Aussies.........

[bulletpruf]

I grew up in Louisiana and we used to catch gators for fun.  Usually happened when we were out in the marsh at night looking for frogs (froglegs=yummy!).  You'd shine the light and see some red eyes; if the eyes were farther than a few inches apart, steer clear, 'cause it's a big'un, but if there were two little eyes together, it was a baby gator.  If you kept the light in their eyes, you could usually idle the boat right up to them and grab 'em out of the water.  We'd usually just grab 'em and let 'em go, but a buddy would sometimes keep a few that he'd put in his baby pool.  We grabbed gators up to about 4.5' like that; a 4 foot gator really isn't that big, mostly tail, just have to watch out for the tail slap and teeth.  One night a buddy got bitten by a 4' gator - about 10 little punctures in his forearm from where it grabbed him and let go.  Within about 5 minutes, his forearm got so swollen, he looked like freakin' Popeye.  Tetanus shot fixed him right up... 

Ok, guess I've rambled enough...

Scott

PS - gator meat is good eating!  Tastes like chicken!

[Super Blue 72]

I used to eat frog legs until I found 2 that were still attached at the crotch!!!    That ended that real quick!

I used to think gator meat was more like swordfish.  Just my opinion.

[Cuda Wuda]

Maybe the preparation but any gator meat I have ever had was like chewing on shoe leather.

[Super Blue 72]

I've only had it once.  I could imagine that it could get pretty tough if it's over cooked or boiled so the oils come out of it.  I had it deep fried after an alligator boat tour in New Orleans pre-Katrina.  It's stiff but not overly tough when I had it, that's why I mention swordfish.  Definately prep has a lot to do with it.