I remember back in the 1950s the fad was raising Nutria in your basement or garage for fun and profit. Then the industry went belly up, as all pyramid schemes do and the animals were released into the wild.
Heart Healthy ‘Crock-Pot’ Nutria
2 hind saddle portions of nutria meat
1 small onion, sliced thin
1 tomato, cut into big wedges
2 potatoes, sliced thin
2 carrots, sliced thin
8 Brussels sprouts
1/2 cup white wine
1 cup water
2 teaspoons chopped garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup demi-glace (optional)
Layer onion, tomato, potatoes, carrots and Brussels sprouts in crockpot. Season
nutria with salt, pepper and garlic, and place nutria over vegetables. Add wine
and water, set crockpot on low and let cook until meat is tender (approximately
1-1/2 hours). Garnish with vegetables and demi-glace. Makes four servings.
Other Nutria Recipes
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No!
We should use them as service animals.
“Sir! You can’t bring that big rat on this plane!”
“Why not? I saw Bill Clinton in First Class.”
I love shooting and have my own range on my property, but the most fun shooting I’ve ever had was in college, we’d take .22 revolvers to the city dump and by moon light shoot rats.
Extreme shooting fun. They’d have runs between piles of trash - like their roads - and would scurry across them where we’d pick them off. And of course, there was an infinite supply.......
Oh what joy!
I saw Andrew Summer eat one on TV. It was in LA and some Cajun guy was fixing it. Its supposed to be very tasty.
They taste like chicken...
if chicken were a rat...
So? Use it for its fur. Its fur is famous and used in fashion before the fur-Nazis got after us.
Ask any Cajun, and nutria can be eaten... Those crazy coon-asses will eat anything if it doesn’t eat them first..
/I’m part coon-ass, can talk about my kinfolks..
No! Give them free housing, health care, education, let them vote and run for office!
Giant swamp rats? I’m sure the Democraps have already registered them all as illegal voters.
Do I need to say it? The laws in CA are backasswards if it is an invasive species, but it is illegal to hunt them?
IIRC, years ago when the smart people here in Louisiana made one of their periodic attempts to convince us that Nutria was a tasty meal, my old buddy Moon Griffon did up some t-shirts with “Nutria Rat on a Stick” theme.
They’ll make it the Mexifornia state rodent.
