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I wonder if they were tasty. You never hear of people eating beaver.
by flerchin 1y ago
I wonder if they were tasty. You never hear of people eating beaver.
- kcplate 1y agoI have a cousin who is a trapper who says they are delicious.
- yodon 1y agoclearly slang evolves over time
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoWell, initially, beaver ate you.
- jandrewrogers 1y agoBeaver is genuinely delicious, and I don't like most game meat. In frontier times it was commonly used as a ready substitute for fatty pork like bacon. These days you are unlikely to have a chance to try it unless you are friends with a trapper.
- rbanffy 1y agoThe fifth grader in me chuckled.
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- Scarblac 1y agoIn the middle ages there was a big debate in the Catholic church about whether beavers were fish (nobility hated eating no meat except fish on fridays and were looking for some variety). It was argued that their tails are scaly like a fish', and of course they live in water. But on the other hand there's all the fur and so on. So eventually it was decided that beaver tails count as fish, not the whole animal. This led to it being hunted to local extinction in quite some places.
- cafard 1y ago[dead]
- gausswho 1y agoAnd now we have two questions: - How does beaver taste? - How does beaver tail taste?
- mousethatroared 1y agoI don't know about beavers, but their tails tastes like any other fried dough drizzled in syrup.
- dlcarrier 1y agoBeaver tails taste a lot like bear claws.
- maximus-decimus 1y agoand 3rd question : does beaver tail taste anywhere close to beaver tail (the pastry) https://beavertails.com/products https://beavertails.com/products
- condensedcrab 1y agoNot beaver, but muskrat was historically was a Catholic loophole to get around abstinence from meat (and more likely due to food availability). https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/the-history-of-detroit-catholics-muskrat-eating-tradition-and-yes-its-still-a-thing https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/the-history-of-detroit-...
- WorkerBee28474 1y agoAnd more recently, alligator https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/02/alligator-is-considered-a-fish-for-lent/ https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2013/02/alligator-is...
- jnaina 1y agoIt is an acquired taste.
- electricboots 1y agoAgreed, the appeal increases with the years. A shame really, youth is wasted on the young.