Eating Armadillo

[Carrot Top]

Has anyone here ever eaten one and lived to tell the tale?

Edited April 12, 2007 by Carrot Top (log)

[Kent Wang]

I've never heard of the term Hoover Hog until now, so I did some Googling.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/...illo_nicknames/

The armadillo (the little armored one) has had many nicknames. “Hoover Hog” was originally applied to the jackrabbit after Herbert Hoover’s Great Depression, but the nickname was also applied to the armadillo. “Poor man’s pig” or “poverty pig” also describe the armadillo as a dish for those who can’t afford better.

The armadillo is the lesser state mammal of Texas, the greater state mammal being, of course, the longhorn cattle.

I am curious about the taste as well.

[sparrowgrass]

You mean "possum on the half shell"?

Never tasted it. But would, if the opportunity arose.

[crouching tyler]

I ate an armadillo burger - or more accurately, I ate about a third of an armadillo burger.

It was a mistake. I thought the Armadillo Burger at the Armadillo Cafe was just a name for the burger of the house. I didn't know that it means the burger was made of Armadillo. I was thinking of Armadillo as mascot - not as meal.

After a few bites, the oddness of the taste of the burger really started to emerge. The french fries, it turns out, were just fine.

[dave s.]

Although I'm from armadillo territory I've never encountered anyone who would admit to have ever et one, although I've known a possum fancier or two. I s'pose it's because they're so kind of helpless-seems like it would be depraved and gruesome to extricate them from their shells. Much worse than cooters which are snapping turtles. Plus most of the time one sees them smushed by the roadside which does not so to speak pique the appetite.