Bear Meat

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(10-22-2020, 01:05 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I've eaten cormorant; I've had worse.

I think one of my favorite stories my father tells about game that most people don't usually eat is when he was an officer for the Pennsylvania Wild Turkey Federation (this is before the NWTF really took off, and it was the first chapter in PA). They had an annual game dinner and he was responsible for getting donations. So he goes to one guy he knows and asks if he would provide some and he tells him "sure! Come by the day before and I'll have a mess of fish for you."

So my dad swings by and picks up this big bowl full of fried fish. He asks the guy what it is and he says "don't ask me that. I'll tell you afterwards, but just put a sign on it that says 'fried fish.'" So that was what my dad did and it was the first item to go during the dinner. Everyone ate the hell out of it.

So, returning the bowl, my dad naturally asks what it was. The guy tells him it was carp. But if he'd put that on the card, no one would've eaten it because no one thinks carp is edible.

I know what you mean!

But it absolutely is edible; my grandparents lived (grandmother still lives) about a 20 minute walk to the Humber River (the main, "tributary," if you can call it that lol, of Lake Ontario) and he made crowns, impressions for dentures, fillings, etc., for dentists and the like, who were all Jewish. Jews (apparently) love to make carp heads for soups, stews and to eat afterwards, so my grandfather would catch some whenever he could and sold them to the Jews he worked for and they'd go nuts lol (not sure if the story is 100% factual lol).