They call them “Chicken of the Trees.”
Asson said he and his friends use a traditional method of preparing iguana. “First, we cut off the head, then roast [the body] on the fire. You have to roast it with the skin on because it’s easier to take the skin off once it’s roasted,” he said. “Then, we cut it up into pieces and season it with a lot of fresh produce like chives and onions. I love to season it with curry and hot pepper, too. It tastes like chicken.”
…South Florida iguana lovers can nab the lizards for free and with little difficulty, their peers in other states order iguana meat from companies such as Exotic Meat Markets. Anshu Pathak, owner of the California-based company, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he imports 10,000 pounds of iguana a month from Florida trappers.
He said that his company, which sells such items as lion steak and raccoon sausage, is helping to control the iguana population.
“I am making iguana sausages, hot dogs, iguana burgers,” Pathak said. “I am trying to do anything and everything to make them palatable to the public. The industry is only growing.”
He said he sells the meat to customers and restaurants across the United States, offering boneless meat for $59.99 per pound and whole, skin-on iguana for $49.99.
Pathak said he used to import iguanas from Puerto Rico, but now gets them from trappers in Florida. He said that trappers sometimes send the reptiles frozen, but mostly transport them alive and by airplane.
“A lot of my customers want them whole, with guts in,” he said.
Pathak said his facility has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. When he receives live iguanas, he said, he puts them in a freezer to kill them.
ht/ fdr in hell
When the Satanists go to Gitmo, where will he sell his Gamey treats ?
It does NOT taste like chicken!
The only thing that tastes LIKE chicken is turkey.
No thanks…
Python & Anaconda are next…
I’m on a mexican radiooooo.. on a mexican wo wo radiooooo
Used to spend summer as a kid with Aunt and Uncle. Uncle would fish for snapping turtles. Used to watch him clean them. Never dawned on me all that chicken soup, stew and ala king was turtle. Thought we ate a lot of chicken.
When Florida has a hard freeze they fall off the trees.
How long before we’re seeing african “bush meat” being sold on street corners? Mass immigration only brings the dregs of human low life trash into this country and can do nothing but lower our standards.
Reptile meat? Southerners have been eating (alli)gator tail for centuries.
Hell, I’d try it at least. I ate rattlesnake once and it was pretty good. …..Lady in Red
Organgrinder – it already has, quite a bit.
i used to work with a mexican and puerto rican and one of the other field service guys used to ask them both what iguana tasted like.
i always thought he was just busting on them.
who knew ?
I like to bite the heads of iguanas as part of my stage show, especially in liberal coffee shops.
I can see a market for the pythons over-slithering Florida.
Although it’s been said many times, many ways, thanks for getting a Christmas song stuck in my head…in July!
When DH and I were in Ft. Lauderdale we took one of those speed boat excursions to the Everglades to see alligators and iguanas. We saw 1 alligator and hundreds of gigantic iguanas in the trees. They blend right in with the tree branches. Like the introduced snakes, they upset the natural environment. Kill all you want and eat them, not me, no way!
I’ve been missing out! Here in Sarasota County I guess we’re just a bit too far north for iguanas to thrive; I’ve seen a few but they’re rare, uh, I mean infrequently seen.
I’d give it a try, but at $50ish/lb. I’ll catch my own, thanks. Iguana Cacciatore sounds good…
I watched a video the other night about some dudes trying different ethnic foods in Queens. They were going to all kinds of holes in the wall and the food looked great. One place they went to was an Indian or Pakistan place and they made some kind of sauce/topping out of goat brains, liver, intestines, assholes, etc. They finely chopped the proteins with drywall knives as it seasoned and cooked.
The one dude was thoroughly disgusted, he had to go stand on the sidewalk as the others ate the dish.
Really, as if the rest of the goat flesh you were eating earlier (and enjoyed) wasn’t connected to the brain, liver, intestines and assholes!
If you want to eat offal then go right ahead, I’ll pass.
The new Turducken:
Iguana swallowed by and alligator swallowed by a python, roasted slow on a box spring over a fire, indigenous style.
The only thing missing is a gourd to tie on my privates and some bones to put in my nose
I really like alligator, so I’d try iguana.
Christmas eve dinner always meant calamari, tentacles and beautiful smooth body, simmered lightly in red sauce ( zuppa di pesce), and whatever other seafood we had money for.
Oxtail soup with barley was standard fare in the winter, as was soup made from chicken feet. To this day, I would choose chicken feet over chicken breast any time. Only problem, the feet are near impossible to find, they are cumbersome to clean, cleavering off the claws should be done outside, and the smell during the first few hours of cooking is none too good. But the 12 hour simmered stock is impressive, as is the gelatinous cartilage around the bones. Yum.
The best pasta sauce is made with neck bones.
When other kids ate bland cheese, I was eating gorgonzola and tangerines.
So taste buds depend on what one grew up eating.
If it tastes like chicken its not for me.
I can’t stomach the thought of the nasty bird. The walking buzzard.
@PJ
Do you need some toenail cleaners? Ha
Orgrinder, that may work for the chicken feet. 🙂
At $60/lb. I think it would be clever to pass chicken off as iguana, not the other way around. The thought of eating that grosses me out, though……as well as the thought of eating iguana. lol
“Crackerbaby July 2, 2018 at 6:15 am
I’m on a mexican radiooooo.. on a mexican wo wo radiooooo”
I understand just a little……….. No comprende, it’s a riddle…..
Beef tongue is another awesome taste treat that I forgot to mention. Cumbersome to prepare, but awesome as “lunch meat” with mustard (as a kid), and now as taco salad in my fav real Mexican restaurant.
We were dirt poor, so my mom knew how to use cheap cuts of anything stretch her budget.
It took this thread to make me think that maybe, just maybe, those raving vegans aren’t so crzy.