Exotic Meats

Do you get tired of hamburger and the various dishes that can be made from the ground flesh of bovines? Add chicken, pork and fish to the menu choices, and you have a greater variety. Still, sometimes you may want something really different.

I remember when I lived in the Cayman Islands for three years, there was a turtle farm at West Bay. The farm's intention is to propagate more of the green sea turtles that used to be much more abundant in the tropical Caribbean waters. I remember when one of our neighbors, who owns a small café in Georgetown, brought us a container of stewed turtle. My wife and kids may have had some confusion over whether to try it. After tasting that delicious turtle stew, we were hooked on eating turtle.

If you do not live in a locale where unusual meats are available on a daily basis, you may need to order from the Internet. Of course, meat that you buy online is not fresh. It is frozen and shipped in dry ice or other preservative to your door. It is the next best thing to living where those animals are commonplace.

Unless you have extremely exotic tastes, you can most likely find unusual meats in the USA. Most of them are grown on farms for the expressed purpose of providing exotic meats for adventurous eaters in the United States. By going online, you can use a search engine to find bison steaks grown in the USA or venison, the flesh of deer, again grown in this country. Although you can't bring live alligators out of Florida as we used to do, there are merchants there who sell alligator meat, either as frozen patties resembling hamburgers or as steaks.

The meat from most endangered animals cannot be found on legitimate web sites for exotic meats of course. It should be sufficient to eat more numerous exotic animal products such as pheasants, ostrich or kangaroo. They are available online.

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