eat alligator meat

It’s sooooo frigging good! :D Pappadeaux has the BEST gator. SRSLY.

I am thinking about trying fried alligator tomorrow when we go out and celebrate my birthday!

a cross between turkey and shrimp. I had fried alligator tail. it was a bit salty but very good. I had my 3 year old godchildren with me and they LOVED it.

Had alligator nuggets years ago—they were more like crab cakes than anything else. Pretty good, actually.

Living in Louisiana every festival you go to they have alligator on a stick. Be cautions about this most of the time the The meat is tough. My grandmother knows how to fix it just right.

Generally I’m not the type of person who feels if something moves you should try and eat it.. I’m content to eat beef chicken and occasionally pork when I want meat…. When I was in Flordia though I tried alligator.. it looked like a chicken nugget and honestly tasted like really rich chicken that was a little tougher in texture.. It wasn’t bad

i tried it when i went to New Orleans. a bunch of us went to an open patio restaurant and decided to split an order of fried alligator – it wasnt bad, but the first piece i had had quite a bit of fat, which turned me off some. also, they served it with cocktail sauce and since i find shrimp disgusting, and i associate shrimp with cocktail sauce, i would not choose to dip it in that again. maybe i’d try BBQ sauce? overall though i recommend trying it once! :)

It definitely does not taste like chicken. It had a kind of funky taste. I couldn’t tell if the actual meat was spicey or if it was the spices they put on it, haha, it was probably the spices.
I tried it before my husband ate some and I made a weird face. it wasn’t vomitrocious, just not something I’d eat on a regular basis.

It was okay, but it was rather tough, and I prefer tender meats, like kangaroo.

Yeah, it’s really good. It’s hard to imagine that alligators are more efficient to raise than chickens, though. Is alligator meat a byproduct of the alligator leather industry, or the other way around?