I had crocodile in South Africa, and it tasted like a cross between chicken and pork. I'd eat it again, but I wouldn't go too far out of my way for it.
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For context, human meat has been reported to taste like pork which is not surprising considering pig physiology is so similar to humans.
My kind of dark humor.
For those who don't know, alligator actually tastes closer to chicken. So it tasting like pork would be a huge red flag.
It tasting like pork would be an indication that op is eating human flesh harvested from the new ICE facility that just opened in Florida. Pretty sure that's the joke they were going for.
I did connect the dots with human flesh, not with the ICE camps though. Thanks for doing the work for me.
From what I have heard, human flesh can also taste pretty close to chicken.
Well what about the calamari rings? Taste like pork? If so, ask your self... Hmmm, what part of the....ask your self something fun! Get creative! What would Superman drink before a great movie? Yeah, that's it.
Alligator tasted awful when I had it. Reptiles are apparently intensely tendony and chewy.
I guess it tastes like chicken but mostly cause it didn't taste like fish, beef or pork
You had improperly prepared alligator, then. It's fucking delicious when an actual Cajun makes it.
Thqt doesn't count. A skilled cajun chef could make dog shit tasty.
The one thing Jeff Foxworthy got right: Cajun food is the best food in the world as long as you don't ask too many questions about what's in it.
Look man, we work with what we've got. We just stuck to the struggle a little longer than everyone else did.
There was a time in our history when America had a very rich and robust set of independent culinary practices, homestead food adapted from whatever cuisine that particular family or community brought with them to America, cooked out of whatever you could rustle up locally. A lot of that disappeared when grocery stores and mass production of food became practical and available. But the Cajuns, being the stubborn French children that we are, just decided nah, we'll keep cooking up the gators and the sea bugs. I don't need to go buy meat from the butcher when I can literally take a rifle twenty paces out my back door and sight three gators with it. Hell we had to kill a gator once that I wasn't even hunting, but he came up on our property and tried to pick a fight with my dog. Well, now we have this big old dead gator laying in the yard. What do we do with it? You skin him and cook him, obviously.
This was in 1999. I haven't lived there in a while but I'd bet my left nut stuff like that is still happening down there.
We still like the grocery store because you can't go hunt up a case of Pabst out of the bayou, but some combination of the fact that a) cuisine is a big part of our culture, b) hunting your own food is cheap, and c) most parts of Louisiana have been poor as hell since the beginning of recorded history - all comes together to mean that the local cuisine has remained weird for a lot longer than most other places in America. It also means these same local recipes have been being perfected for 200 years. Your meal might be gator tail garnished with frogs and topped with a sauce you can't pronounce, but it will be god damn delicious and that's a promise.
Just like you French, stubbornly insisting on keeping your culture instead of submitting to the anglo-germanic industrialized and homogenized culture around you.
Cantonese food is the best in my opinion. Not the westernised shit, the traditional greatness.
It's like something betaeen chicken and fish.
Long pig?
Why? Human taste like pork?
Yes. Both omnivorous.
apparently, yes, human meat tastes like pork to the point that it is nicknamed "long pig".
Except the most common trope is that humans taste like chicken.
Gonna need a citation on that one, numerous accounts by cannibals state that human tastes like a better pork.
They might be biased but I doubt they’re far off the mark when human flesh is commonly called long pig.
TIL.
I tried to find a news story about a Florida man being eaten by an alligator, which was later served, but I couldn't find anything.
I think maybe OP is joking about the new ~~concreration camp~~ detention centre they set up.
Ooooooh. My bad. I wasn't trying to be topical.
... yet.