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Yummy Snake Nuggets

COerriccaRN

COerriccaRN

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Hey, I was at a get together thing this past week and we had some of THE BEST "nugget" things I have ever eaten. Someone said they where made out of rattle snake. Has anyone ever heard of these? Anyone ever cook them? I would love a recipe! They were great!
 
I've had rattler jerky but never nuggets...sounds interesting!

EDIT: I Googled it and found a restaurant in AZ that serves them...I might have to look em up when I'm out there for Xmas.
 
Hubby cooked up a large rattler that was unfortunately killed by a neighbor. He just skinned and gutted it and put it on the grill. It was actually very tasty, almost like catfish.
 
heard of it, but never tried. i couldnt just kill a snake to eat it. even though i kill other animals to eat them. whats it taste like? ive had gator when i was on vacation in florida before. it was quite good.
 
Oh, yeah. Back in the day (late '70s) my buddies and I would go outside of El Paso catch a few C. atrox to have for breakfast. Skin them, prep the hides to sell to Tandy (back when they'd buy them), then slice the carcass crosswise into steaks a couple of ribs wide, and drown the steaks in buttermilk overnight (cuts down on the gamy/fishy taste). Next morning roll them in barely seasoned corn meal (a bit of salt and pepper, and a tiny bit of onion powder) and fry them up, accompanied by eggs, grits and biscuits. Hoo, mama! A fritter would be simple, just fillet the meat, chop it, and mix it in fritter batter. Easy on the onion, a bit of cayenne for a kick. You don't want to overwhelm the taste of the meat. Yuuuuum-my!

(edit) What does it taste like? Slight fishy tang, which is moderated by the buttermilk. A lot like froglegs, if you've ever had them. Gator is stronger flavored.
 
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Oh, yeah. Back in the day (late '70s) my buddies and I would go outside of El Paso catch a few C. atrox to have for breakfast. Skin them, prep the hides to sell to Tandy (back when they'd buy them), then slice the carcass crosswise into steaks a couple of ribs wide, and drown the steaks in buttermilk overnight (cuts down on the gamy/fishy taste). Next morning roll them in barely seasoned corn meal (a bit of salt and pepper, and a tiny bit of onion powder) and fry them up, accompanied by eggs, grits and biscuits. Hoo, mama! A fritter would be simple, just fillet the meat, chop it, and mix it in fritter batter. Easy on the onion, a bit of cayenne for a kick. You don't want to overwhelm the taste of the meat. Yuuuuum-my!

(edit) What does it taste like? Slight fishy tang, which is moderated by the buttermilk. A lot like froglegs, if you've ever had them. Gator is stronger flavored.
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wow. sounds good. i eat frog legs galore every year. a .22 and some rat shot. i started out before i owned a gun when i was 8 catching them on fishing line. cut a hankerchief and put it on the hook and hover it over the plants. always got a bunch of them that way. they over run my uncles place so i dont feel bad doin it either.
 
Yep, they taste ALOT like frog legs. And I LOVE frog legs. But we usually cook up the frog legs on the grill wrapped in bacon so the friend snake nuggets where different. AND there where no bones. I have NO CLUE how they made snake fillets...seems like it would be hard. And the snake we ate was a rattler that bit out friends dog. Sad for the dog, but good for us =D
 
wow. sounds good. i eat frog legs galore every year. a .22 and some rat shot. i started out before i owned a gun when i was 8 catching them on fishing line. cut a hankerchief and put it on the hook and hover it over the plants. always got a bunch of them that way. they over run my uncles place so i dont feel bad doin it either.
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Ha, we get our frogs the real way. Ride up to them in the boat, have someone lay on the nose, and grab them with out hands. Stuff them in a sack, keep them overnight and fry them up the next day so that they stay FRESH. The best kind of frog legs are the ones that "hop" in the grill. Yum!!
 
COerriccaRN said:
Ha, we get our frogs the real way. Ride up to them in the boat, have someone lay on the nose, and grab them with out hands. Stuff them in a sack, keep them overnight and fry them up the next day so that they stay FRESH. The best kind of frog legs are the ones that "hop" in the grill. Yum!!
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well when id catch them via fishing rod id bucket them. but now since i shoot them i just wade around pick them up and keep the pistol holstered and just keep popping a few and picking them up. grilled that night. i guess we could ride up to them on the boat. but that would mean no shooting. we like shooting. and we save our fuel for 4 am walleye fishing. mmmm walleye.
 
well when id catch them via fishing rod id bucket them. but now since i shoot them i just wade around pick them up and keep the pistol holstered and just keep popping a few and picking them up. grilled that night. i guess we could ride up to them on the boat. but that would mean no shooting. we like shooting. and we save our fuel for 4 am walleye fishing. mmmm walleye.
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Yeah, we LOVE shooting. I need to try that, could be interesting. I love catching them live though to. And I've never eaten Walleye I don't beleive. Sounds good though. I would rather have a good old Appaloosa Catfish.
 
A big one will fillet pretty easily with a filleting knife. Draw along the side of the spine, and treat it like a really weird-shaped bass. They can be a handfull to manage, as they tend to try to scooch on the cutting board, but with another person holding the tail steady it's not bad.
 
LOL. I've had rattlesnake chili in El Paso, TX (maybe I was actually in Mexico?) when they had one of their rattlesnake roundups. I HATE the roundups... :shrugs:

The chili was actually QUITE tasty... but in chili you could probably use ANY kind of meat and the chili sauce would be the overwhelming flavor.
 
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LOL. I've had rattlesnake chili in El Paso, TX when they had one of their rattlesnake roundups. I HATE the roundups...
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What?? I LOVE round-ups. We go every year to the hunters extravaganza in Houston Tx, just to see the "Rattlesnake Man."

One year, he slept in a sleeping bag full of Rattlers! It was awesome.
 
Yeah... but you know... to each their own. :)

I just think some of the roundups are all for the sake of the "spectacle". One of these days there'll be no more rattlers and we'll be inundated by rodents.

I also wouldn't mind if they used EVERYTHING they got from the rattlers that are killed. But I've seen some folks lop of a rattler's head and tail and then toss the body into the garbage... what a waste.

Now, to be fair, there were a lot of good exhibits as well. Information about bites and all the good that snakes (including the rattlers) do for us.
 
I also wouldn't mind if they used EVERYTHING they got from the rattlers that are killed. But I've seen some folks lop of a rattler's head and tail and then toss the body into the garbage... what a waste
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I've never been to a Roundup where they actually kill the snakes. From what I've seen they let them out, play with them, milk them, box them up and go on to the next town.
Its illegal to kill Diamond Backs (the kind we have in Texas) so not many people mess with them.
 
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I've never been to a Roundup where they actually kill the snakes. From what I've seen they let them out, play with them, milk them, box them up and go on to the next town.
Its illegal to kill Diamond Backs (the kind we have in Texas) so not many people mess with them.
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Interesting! The one I went to was WAAYYY back and I was a teenager, so I couldn't even tell you where it was, exactly... Maybe it was even in Mexico (Juarez)? Hmmmm. I'll have to ask my uncle.
 
COerriccaRN said:
I've never been to a Roundup where they actually kill the snakes. From what I've seen they let them out, play with them, milk them, box them up and go on to the next town.
Its illegal to kill Diamond Backs (the kind we have in Texas) so not many people mess with them.
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Umm - the only protected rattlesnake in Texas is Crotalus horridus, the canebrake or timber rattler. (That was a surprise to me, as they used to be all over the place when my roommate and I went herping in the late '70s.) The two pygmy rock rattlesnakes (Crotalus lepidus spp. used to be listed as "threatened" until the national wildlife dweebs got off their butts and actually went down into the deep canyons in Big Bend to see how prolific they are.

Western diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox) aren't protected at all, either from a state or national perspective. There may be some local ordinances, such as the one we have here in the PRA that precludes killing any wildlife in the city limits except those specifically listed as "vermin", but unless you're in such a jurisdiction it's ok to harvest them.
 
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