SC's, have you ever eaten a turtle ?

yes i have, also turtle soup. i did not want to nor did i enjoy it but, i was trying to be nice and felt obligated to oblige my hosts. i won't be doing this anytime again.

An alligator taste a little like chicken too. I have never eaten a turtle but I love frog legs. Poppy

No, I've never eaten a turtle. My dad liked them but I refused to even taste it. My son eats rattlesnake but not me. We live in rattlesnake country. Texas has a rattlesnake roundup every March and makes a fiesta of it, like a holiday. They have a big demonstration on how to handle a live one. Then they have a big rattlesnake cook-off. My son participates every year in catching and the cooking. He always brings me some. I always refuse.

I once hooked a snapping turtle - approx. 12 lbs - he got the fish bait & got snagged in the process. I cut him loose since I did not know how to cook turtle. I have had turtle soup and it was done excellently. I would eat it again.

No never did and won't Turtle soup is a Cherokee recipe, had a neighbor in Missouri who made it. One less snapping turtle in the world to eat my fish on the stringer is a wonderful thing. My friend and her husband once stayed at a friend's farm for a weekend to shoot turtles on the farm pond. They were biting the faces of young calves drinking from the pond and killing them.

::Yes, I have eaten turtle soup and I've had fried turtle. Both were excellent. There were some big turtles at the lake where I used to fish but they were too big for me to try to snare. However, my neighbor and his son would often catch some and share them with us. I never learned how to properly clean a turtle either. I heard it was a big job!!

Yes, I ate two pieces when I was a child. It was a snapper turtle and my grandfather caught it and prepared it. I ate it to please him. I was just a young kid then but I remember looking at the meat as it was cooking and it was "jumping" in the pan. My grandfather said it was just nerves and there wasn't anything wrong with it. I ate those two pieces but I swear to this day the meat was still jumping when it reached my stomach. I could feel it ... at least that's how I remember it. It's been about 58 years since that moment and I still have no desire for turtle meat. :0)

My daughter made turtle soup and I had a little of that. It's not a favorite. I don't care for wild food. She eats that and has had racoon, beaver, blackbird, and other things. The only wild thing I have had that I really liked was moose, other than sea food.

I have eaten turtle soup at good restaurants in Chicago, and at the home of one of my friends whose father used to bring home snapping turtles from fishing trips.

many times. actually a turtle taste like many different types of meat depending on the cut. here in georgia we put out turtle baskets. the biggest ive ever caught was 70 lbs.... bon appetite.