They love to dig holes in levees and play in the water. We had alligators placed in our canals to eat them. It would take BAGS of cement to fill up some holes. I watched a nutria one afternoon scouting for birds. That thing cleaned itself like a cat for a good 15 minutes.
If eggs and beef and chicken and a host of other things get "too expensive," it may be time to eat them dudes.
I saw an episode of, and I want to say Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, where he went athe swamp in Louisiana and spent time hunting, cooking, and eating Nutria. It appears that these little fellows are quite tasty. If they were available I would certainly give them a try.
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A small number of game meat websites on the internet sell nutria meat for consumption. As of 2016, at least one Moscow restaurant serves nutria meat dishes.[56] In 1997 and 1998, Louisiana attempted to encourage the public to consume nutria meat. Nutria meat is leaner with a lower fat content and lower in cholesterol compared to ground beef.[57] In an effort to encourage Louisianians to eat nutria, several recipes were distributed to locals and published on the internet.[58] People in poor and rural Louisiana have trapped and consumed nutria meat for decades.
Marsh Dog, a US company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, received a grant from the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program to establish a company that uses nutria meat for dog food products.[59] In 2012, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation recognized Marsh Dog with "Business Conservationist of the Year" award for finding a use for this eco-sustainable protein.[60] A claimed environmentally sound solution is the use of nutria meat to make dog food treats.[61]
In Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, nutria (Russian and local languages Нутрия) are farmed on private plots and sold in local markets as a poor man's meat.[56] As of 2016, however, the meat is used successfully in Moscow restaurant Krasnodar Bistro, as part of the growing Russian localvore movement and as a 'foodie' craze.[56] It appears on the menu as a burger, hotdog, dumplings, or wrapped in cabbage leaves, with the flavour being somewhere between turkey and pork.[62]
I saw an episode of, and I want to say Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, where he went athe swamp in Louisiana and spent time hunting, cooking, and eating Nutria. It appears that these little fellows are quite tasty. If they were available I would certainly give them a try.
Andrew Zimmern doesn't top my list of culinary experts.
I've eaten racoon and beaver meatballs, and they were fine, but given the recipe, I didn't really get a sense of the unique taste of the meat. They didn't detract from the recipe either.
I'd try nutria.
(My grandfather said they'd eat crow during the depression)
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One of my buddies from down there said it's not bad.
Something his Gramma and her generation cooked fairly regularly.
I got the impression it was in the "if that's what's there I'll eat it, but I won't pick it over anything else".
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