FL/GA PLS., post: 417069, member: 379 wrote:
This is just a "regular" coming home from fishing at a Fl. golf course
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I grew up around gators and my father had a "pet" gator for many years, but I've never seen that many in one place before. The closes I've seen was on a chicken farm. There is always a certain amount of chickens that die when being raised and the farmer was looking for a way to alleviate his loss. He started raising gators that the fed the dead chickens. Then he would harvest the gators for meat and hides.
Andy
Not very partial to gator myself.
Prepared 3 ways here.
Fried tail chunks or
Ground with pork to make gator sausage or
Alligator Sauce piquante which is more of a refined Cajun dish and recipes flux from family to family and locales to locales. If one ate gator, I would recommend the sauce piquante.
Young teen son brought home 3 lbs of fresh boiled crawfish last Friday for an appetizer from one of our local markets. Son downed about half then stated that he didn't like them much. They weren't spicy enough for him. I got a tray and finished them off and I had to agree with him. Needed more cayenne and lemon in the boil. Fortunately we have 3 other local places to buy from here.
Andy J, post: 417101, member: 44 wrote: I've tried gator... I just don't get it. Cows and Pigs and Chickens are so damn good! Why mess around trying to make leather edible?
Actually the hides are more valuable than the meat The tail meat
Is a byproduct of the kill.
The top grade hides are exported to France, Italy and other markets. Alligators leather products.
I forget where in Louisiana this is at..but 'Mugsie' the feral tom adopted this place and regularly keeps gators at bay.
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Andy Bruner, post: 417212, member: 1123 wrote: A long time ago in a state far far away (Texas) I used to go to a little town on the Gulf Coast (Kemah) and get shrimp straight of the boats.
When I was about 16 my friend and I would ÛÏobtainÛ a case of beer and run about two or three miles offshore (in a 15Ûª skiff with a 9.8 merc on it, the possibility of dying never occurred to us) to greet the shrimp boats coming in. They would happily trade you a 5 gal. bucket of shrimp for a case of beer. This was before Ponce De Leon inlet was dredged and jettied so the trip through took some careful boating skills or you could pitchpole or broach real easy especially on an outgoing tide. Surprised I lived through my teen years. :p
Robert Hill, post: 417227, member: 378 wrote: Actually the hides are more valuable than the meat The tail meat
Is a byproduct of the kill.
The top grade hides are exported to France, Italy and other markets. Alligators leather products.
yes, I was speaking to the gator on the grill pic..
