Eating Alligator on Friday's During Lent (and the rest of the year)

Mirror of Justice ^ | 2/14/13

[marshmallow]

If anyone remembers the story behind this great case of legal intepretation, please comment.

[Mr. K]

i was imagining a cross between lobster and prok roast - which would be great

dammit... now I gotta go get some lobster tonight

[Fast Moving Angel]

a cross between lobster and prok roast

You're not too far off -- if I remember right, the grain of the meat was more towards the pork roast, though. But because it had been simmered for a while, it was very tender.

Dangit, now you're making me hungry. Enjoy your lobster!!

[stboz]

Alligator meat is delicious, if cooked correctly.

There's a place in Hattiesburg, MS that serves gator and it is tender enough to cut with a fork. The sauce on it is delicious, too.

[Cyber Liberty]

‘Gator is actually very good, so is ostrich. You haven’t lived until you’ve had ostrich jerky. Much better than rattlesnake or turtle soup. Obama has declared dog is much more tender than either. (True, not made up. On the level.) Frog legs suck.

That reminds me...Ostrich Festival is in a couple weeks, and there’s bound to be a feast. Races for sure.

[wonkowasright]

Well if we go down the road of state houses.... Oklahoma considers the watermelon a vegetable. Its their state vegetable..............

[Joe 6-pack]

Spanish explorers and conquistadores in the new world would eat manatee during Lent, referring to it as, “the fish that tasted like beef.”

[Joe 6-pack]

See my #26.

[P.O.E.]

Swannee, how I luv ya, how I luv ya....

"Quit looking at me like that!"

[shove_it]

It was said in the French/Canadian communities in the down-river suburbs of Detroit that beaver and mushrat(sic) were acceptable substitutes for fish during Lent because the Detroit River was so polluted that the fish were inedible. A special dispensation was granted by the RC Church because the animals were so plentiful. It seemed odd to me as the main diet of the animals was probably fish from the Detroit River.