Meats Wild Game, & other Exotic Meats...

[Tim Horton]

In a number of other posts much has been said about wild game, and other meats.. Many of us have had the somewhat standard things, rabbit, squirrel, pheasant, duck, goose, venison, alligator, boar for example.. Some elk, moose, bear, caribou...

It is interesting the Australians I correspond with eat roo, feral goat, donkey, camel, and they say feral cattle are horrid..

Binky, you mentioned horse... Do you have horse available in the lower main land ?? I never found it anywhere in the province.. I knew a number of people from the Maritimes and other east areas, but none seemed to have tried it..

Facts, details, experience.... ??

 

[Mountain trapper]

In a number of other posts much has been said about wild game, and other meats.. Many of us have had the somewhat standard things, rabbit, squirrel, pheasant, duck, goose, venison, alligator, boar for example.. Some elk, moose, bear, caribou...

It is interesting the Australians I correspond with eat roo, feral goat, donkey, camel, and they say feral cattle are horrid..

Binky, you mentioned horse... Do you have horse available in the lower main land ?? I never found it anywhere in the province.. I knew a number of people from the Maritimes and other east areas, but none seemed to have tried it..

Facts, details, experience.... ??

I've eaten horse many times overseas. In fact I preferred it over their beef, less gristle. I've eaten camel, but didn't really care for it. I drank a lot of beer and vodka made from camel and mares milk in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. I've eaten a lot of other unidentifiable parts and pieces in the middle east and Asia

 

[Binky]

Binky, you mentioned horse... Do you have horse available in the lower main land ?? I never found it anywhere in the province.. I knew a number of people from the Maritimes and other east areas, but none seemed to have tried it..

Yes, horse meat is available in several butcher shops here. And Canada is a leading exporter of horse meat, not limited to the following countries but some of its major markets include Japan, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Kazakhstan.

I've tried horse meat, it was good but I found it a little too sweet and lean for my liking. I wouldn't turn it down though if somebody gave me a fresh roast as a gift, I would just cook it differently next time with lots of hard neck garlic to cut the sweetness and some added pork fat draped over it for roasting.

 

[DrHenley]

I've eaten quite a few kinds of wild game. I guess the most "exotic" meat was smoked Armadillo
It's a clean white meat that I describe as a cross between rabbit and pork. Looks like pork tenderloin.
I once handed some out to some friends in college and didn't tell them what it was until after they ate it. Everyone liked it. One guy said "But...it's GOOD!"

 

[Caribou]

Deer, moose, caribou, musk ox, wild boar. Moose is okay but moose liver is excellent. Musk ox is my favorite and wild boar is very good, even better than domestic pork.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I forgot about eating muktuk. Pretty disgusting.

 

[Caribou]

I forgot about eating muktuk. Pretty disgusting.

So is pickled moose nose.

 

[DrHenley]

I forgot about eating muktuk. Pretty disgusting.

Can you make cracklings out of it?

 

[Cabin Fever]

I forgot about eating muktuk. Pretty disgusting.

My Inuit friends love muktuk! These also love caribou leg marrow.

 

[Cabin Fever]

You haven't lived until you've eaten raw caribou and raw arctic char.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Can you make cracklings out of it?

That might help, but I don't care to test that theory.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Besides the "normal" wild game; deer, elk, bear, moose, caribou, antelope etc, I've also eaten; muskrat, beaver, coon, bobcat and mountain lion. All are good when cooked properly.