Would you eat weasel meat or bugs?

No. Because I’m vegan.

No. Because that’s disgusting.

Only if I were starving and there was nothing left on the planet.

if i had to.

people do it everyday, cant be that terrible.

I wonder what is the vegan equivalent of weasel, poison ivy?

uberbatman?

Weasel pot pie
i was looking for that video^

anyway to answer the question at hand, yea ill try anything once. The way i look at it, is if it tasted absolutely horrible, no one would eat it.

Oh my God, you turned this into a question? xD

Anyway, I’d at least give it a try. I tried rabbit this holiday. Technically, eating a rabbit or a weasel shouldn’t feel more “wrong” than eating cow, but I still was relieved that I didn’t like the taste of rabbit ;-)

I have smelled a weasel and it is not a good smell. I don’t want to eat anything that smells like shit after it has been bathed.

No, because weasel is not kosher, and neither are most bugs.

Ummm No.

It depends on how it is prepared. You might not even know you’re eating bugs or weasel meat.

If it’s anything like rabbit, it tastes adorable.

Weasels are too cute to eat.

I’ve had seahorse, huinea pig and I’m almost certain I’ve had squirrel and I know I’ve had horse… is weasel that big of a stretch?

I’ll try anything once or ten times.

@asmonet where did your try seahorse, and what did it taste like?

@uberbatman:

“The way i look at it, is if it tasted absolutely horrible, no one would eat it.”

Exactly, and that’s why no one eats weasel.

@anaphase well played :P

Seems like it would be game-y tasting. So I would say “no thanks.”

You have probably already “eaten” lots of very small bugs and their eggs, if you eat anything made out of grain flour. Also have swallowed gnats, etc by mistake. I think I would eat weasel (tame one, preferably) if it were cooked very well done- the wild ones live on rats and mice mostly, and those kinds of rodents can carry a lot of different diseases in their blood.

Good point about bugs & bug eggs in flour. Also, bugs can be eaten by riding a motorcycle & opening your mouth for a minute without thinking. A gamey tasting weasel would be due to the hunt, if an animal is on the run, lactic acid, a byproduct of exertion, builds up in the muscles. If you capture a relaxed weasel by surprise, there’s no gamey flavor. Would Ferret taste similar to weasel?

greylady, how does a person swallow gnats by mistake?

@at psyla, I have done it by having my mouth open and breathing them in. Here, they tend to come in “clouds”, and if you are working hard and breathe in, you get them. Much better to swallow them than to get them in your eye, though!
As far as I know, ferrets are a type of weasel. , (Wiki answer below)

- Ferrets belong to the family Mustelidae (weasels)
Weasels are mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. Originally, the name “weasel” was applied to one species of the genus, the European form of the Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis). Early literary references to weasels, for example their common appearances in fables, refer to this species rather than to the genus as a whole, reflecting what is still the common usage in the United Kingdom. In technical discourse, however, as in American usage, the term “weasel” can refer to any member of the genus, or to the genus as a whole. Of the 16 extant species currently classified in the genus Mustela, ten have “weasel” in their common name. Among those that do not are the stoat or ermine, the two species of mink, and the polecats or ferrets.

Thanks greylady! I didn’t know ferrets & weasels were the same species! Polecats. There’s an animal you don’t hear much about anymore. There’s an old saying from my grandfather’s time “Nervous as a polecat on a tin roof.” I’ve never even seen a picture of a polecat!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=polecat+pictures&aq=9&oq=polecat
I always figure its a kind of poor day if you don’t learn at least one thing.

Thanks! Yes! I Wikipediaed Polecats after my post. I wonder if they could be domesticated like ferrets. They look so cute & tameable. What a strange name… I could say I have my pet polecat.

And I wouldn’t eat him.

@uber: an asian festival in Washington, DC. It was… crunchy, and salty, I’m relatively certain it was fried? All I know is I closed my eyes and bit in.

Then I saw it’s little face and felt guilty. It’s got a like a million babies y’know.

I had the guinea pig, when I lived in Ecuador, if you’re curious. They call it Cuy though.

I would eat any animal I could, so yes. Did you know some cultures raise guinea pigs as food? I would totally have a guinea farm for food if I had the space.

@dynamicduo: Yes, we did. :-p

Yeah, I realized that right when I posted, and I was going to go edit my comment to reflect that, but then I decided to let it stand and take the criticism ;). Better to be honest than to game the system I figure.

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