Do they taste like a chicken? That's what I really want to know. I've never tried the gator meat.
I've had it before but a long time ago when I was a teenager.
I recall it was white meat but a bit grainier than chicken.
Tasted pretty good though.
There is a county drainage canal that runs behind the neighborhood I grew up in....
One day some friends were out there with their shotguns when they saw a 10½ ft gator. They shot and killed it, but it was so big they couldn't drag it up the bank. So they went to one of the kids' houses up the street and got his mom's station wagon. Drove out there via a dirt road that runs alongside the canal, tied it to the frame of the car, pulled it out and got it into the back with most of it hanging out and drove it to another guy's house with its tail dragging the ground.
Took off the tail, skinned it, dressed out the hide on a piece of plywood and cooked up all the tail meat.
I saw the torso skin tacked out on the plywood.
It covered the entire sheet.
Don't know what they ever did with the skin, but the guy whose house it was at was a jewelry maker so I imagine he made some belts out of some of it.
One of my childhood memories.
