I had a chance to get kangaroo steak once, but the restaurant was out of stock. The feels were real.
Apparently kangaroo steak needs to be slow cooked due to low fat content. Dun dun dun....
I had a chance to get kangaroo steak once, but the restaurant was out of stock. The feels were real.
There’s a restaurant near me that serves buffalo and ostrich. I’ve tried the buffalo: way too lean. Perhaps it’s better for you, but it was fairly dry and tasteless despite being served rare.
Now for the ostrich…. ?
If you prepare it properly it’s lean but not dry. You just can’t cook it like beef. My uncle got buffalo a lot, he liked it much better than beef.
There’s a place here that does Bison burgers. They’re pretty good.
Bison is fantastic in chili.
Had that problem when I worked at Burger King. Really.
I had kangaroo jerky once. Interesting flavor. Bit of sweetness to it. Definitely distinctive. Far better than the alligator (just tasted like chicken) and python (also tasted like chicken, but way too chewy) that I got from the same place.
I’m in a tourist town in Texas. There’s a place downtown that is called “Jerky Outlet.”
Also, there’s a big gas station/truck stop just north of my town that literally has full-size meat cases full of different kinds of jerky.
You’re not missing much. Roo has a really pungent smell and can be quite tough.
It’s a very lean meat, so it’s important not to overcook it.
I’ve eaten a lot of exotic meats, personally I don’t think they’re that different.
I have eaten kangaroo in differnt forms at restaurants. I have to agree with previous posters, it was too tough for my liking and the taste wasn’t that great either. When I go with Australian meat, it’s emu burger.
But I think it’s a good experience to try different kinds of things.
I have had many exotic meats, and lets just say their is a reason why we domesticated and eat what we do.
Not that any of it is bad, its just not as good.
Its like the ice cream flavor of the month, it sounds really good cause its unique and special, but if it was really that good, it would be one of the daily flavors.
Generally agree, most exotic foods are best occasionally. However there are exceptions that for whatever reason we’ve yet to figure out how to cheaply mass produce.
Heck, even beef, domesticated for centuries, is getting dang expensive.
I have always wondered why we don’t raise more of a variety of animals for meat. Like why don’t we have more bison in America instead of cows? Since they are native to the area, one would think that they would be more acclimated to the climate. Same with deer or elk.
Gonna hard disagree here. Alligator is the best meat I’ve eaten.
Some animals are harder to raise en masse the way cows and chickens are.
And now I’m having flashbacks to a show I watched as a kid – Skippy; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByob-5pPEs
I loved that show!
“What’s that, Skippy? The autopilot’s failed to engage, and you want to take ‘er down manually? Go for it, girl!”
You’re comparing it to Lassie then? I always thought of it as a take-off of Flipper.
It’s been a while, but I recall Skippy operating a radio!
For me it was the timing: Our local TV station had been running Flipper for a few years but when it got canceled Skippy turned up in the same time slot.
Selkie would love my parties. Once in a while I just get a whole bunch of exotic meats from the nearby big city butcher, and my friends and I try them out. Kangaroo, camel, ostrich, rattlesnake, whatever they got. I made my own frog legs. My favorite is alligator — tastes like what I call “chicken-fish.” Kind of flaky, kind of seafood, kind of poultry.