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[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Here I see a lot of people who have been served badly prepared game. For any meat that tastes too gamey, if you're not sure how to prepare it, there are some tricks that work pretty much everytime:

  1. Make an infusion of ginger by boiling it for half an hour. Lot of ginger, the water must taste spicy. Then soak the meat in it overnight. It won't really live a gingery taste in the meat, so it's good for most preparations.
  2. Don't roast, but braise. Red wine, juniper berries, rosemary, cloves, bayleaves, and laurel are good with most wild animals and musky meats: deer, wild boar, mutton, rock goat, etc etc. Sheepmeat and goatmeat can also go with a lot of cumin, turmeric, chili, cinnamon and cardamom, if you want a more central Asian vibe.
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you're supposed to swallow without chewing isn't food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I quite enjoy a half dozen sea-snots (just fresh with a wedge of lemon please), but I can see the lack of appeal.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tucking into fresh oysters with lemon juice and tobasco is one of the only times I enjoy being alive

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

tucking in to anything salty with lemon and tabasco is also pretty good though

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to chew them?! I love oysters but I chew them up.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I don't hate myself that much, though.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?

If it's not for you then you won't get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.

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[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Any "big game". Moose taste like swamp.

Venison can be good if it's properly butchered and stored. It so often isn't though. People will shoot a deer then leave it to hang for a day in 50-60 degree weather. Just gross.

Bears are too greasy. And they're too smart, eating them is just bad karma.

A lot of game meat can be good, people just have no clue what to do with the processing side of it. They'll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

As someone who just bought land and is learning to hunt, this is a very interesting comment.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They’ll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

Sounds like advice that should be remembered.

[–] DisOne@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Crocodile can be a bit hit and miss. Supposedly β€˜tastes just like chicken’ but there was an extra flavour I can’t describe.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I can't speak to crocodile, but I have eaten a lot of gator. If it's not prepared properly it goes from tasting like water chicken to tasting like swamp thang.

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[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

An undercooked venison burger. I can't remember what it tasted like when I ate it, but coming back up it was very unpleasant

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cockroach (if that counts) and rat.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What's the story with the rat

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're just glossing over the cockroach, huh?

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a salt and pepper fried cockroach once. It was like a papery gusher with questionable insides

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those words in that order are a pretty wild ride.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I ate a chicken ball dipped in spicy peanut sauce one time because my dad told me it was a chicken ball. It was the testicle of a chicken. It actually tasted fine before I found out what it was.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Woof. I haven’t had nearly the same adventures in meat as you have, but I can say that duck tongue is gross.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another one of those things that taste pretty ok if you don't know what it is. I think that's why hotdogs are popular.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly the less you know and the less you think about any meat you’re eating in general, the more enjoyable it is.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Ya that's true

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Street food vendor was selling kabobs. Later found them catching and cleaning rats in a nearby alley.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.

That's also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Uni (sea urchin) at a Japanese restaurant. It was like cold fishy jelly. Although I'm told that fresh uni is different. Not gonna try it again unless someone else at the table orders it.

yeah, not a fan; I thought it tasted remarkably of how piss smells.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I think uni is overrated as well. It's not bad, but overrated.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Dude, camel fat smells and tastes so bad

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.

yeah, catfish can be pretty unpleasant.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and... Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I've had bad duck, too.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tasted like fishy dirt meat

I'm not a fish-eater in general, but I am an avid fisherman (I just catch them, the wife eats them,) so I've heard a lot of stories from my fellow anglers (which should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, there's a reason they're called "fish stories")

There is a persistent rumor I've heard that some people will take catfish and other bottom-feeders like carp home alive to let them swim around in a bathtub of clean water for a day or two to sort of flush all of the mud and everything out of their system before cleaning and cooking them

Allegedly it's more of a southern thing.

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[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Carp. Had it in poland. The toughest fish meat I've ever had, riddled with tiny annoying bones. Tastes a bit like discount supermarket proscuitto... not exactly horrible, but it was so much effort to eat the damn thing to boot

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I wasn't a big fan of goat

Gotta be possum. That shit is musky

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I tried kangaroo in Australia and it was not good.

[–] DisOne@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Kangaroo tends to either be really good or really bad, nothing in between. Probably down to the quality of the chef, hence why I never cook it at home

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

A kangaroo steak I had in oz is in the top 5 steaks I've ever had

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Venison, and for the same reason as lamb

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[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't like muscles from the Puget Sound because they taste like it smells and I cannot get past that.

Any wild ungulate. I've had some rodents like squirrels and nutria and so long as you let the meat chill for a couple days, tastes surprisingly good! But I've had wild boar, deer, moose, bear, and horse and they was some pretty rough experiences.

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