Back in July of 2018, we asked in a poll, “How picky are you with food?” The highest percentage of voters, 45 percent, said they like many foods, but won’t try anything adventurous (do we think that includes rattlesnake?). However, 36 percent answered that they’d try anything once. At the other end of the spectrum, 8 percent answered that they’re very picky and only eat a few things that they know they like.
If we have the same voters today as we had back then, these poll numbers may match up. Shall we see?
Tell us below, if rattlesnake was put on the table in front of you as an appetizer, would you eat it?
No.. because I’m a vegetarian
Rattlesnake isn’t considered meat Its a cold blooded animal ( like fish )
That’s nonsense – a snake is an animal, a fish is an animal, insects are animals. Vegetarians do not eat animals! Vegans do not eat animals or products that come from animals such as eggs and dairy.
Tastes like Chicken.
I would try it.
I wouldn’t. But my wife is more adventurous. She has eaten all sorts of wild game, including kangaroo, crocodile, rattlesnake, and chocolate-covered ants.
We have a number of rattlesnake festivals in Oklahoma every year so it is not a unknown thing here. PS, I have eaten cobra a couple of times while I was stationed in Taiwan.
We ate it in the military on occasion out in the woods. Actually not bad with hot sauce
Well if it tastes like chicken I’ll just have chicken thank you.
Spend eight hours a day for a week doing remodeling work in a chicken processing facility and you’ll change your mind.
I have. it was a better than SOME of the C-rations in the 1960s I ate in Nam. Those C-rats were older than I was.
I would like to try rattlesnake. I understand it is pretty good eating. Where can I get some.
I’ve eaten rattlesnake on a number of occasions and found that breaded and fried rattlesnake is quite tasty. The Rattlesnake Round Up in San Patricio TX features a numbe of booths offering rattlesnake meat in different ways.
And in fact, you can find almost any kind of souvenir with rattlesnake-something in it, on it, or wrapped around it.
Tastes like chicken
If it tastes like chicken, why not just eat chicken? I think I would try it though.
With the python invasion in Florida I would think they are good eating. However, never tried one. …but I would.
Absolutely I’d try it. I heard it’s tasty. And I’ve even been bitten by one! A pygmy rattler. Don’t think you could eat one of those.
I have already had rattlesnake. It is good.
If you’ve spent any time in Texas – especially West Texas – you’d totally be OK with it.
I had alligator and like it. Something about rattlesnake gives me the creeps. Go figure. LOL.
My family has, and liked it
i do not eat anything that has/had eyes. been that way for 28 plus years now!!
No potatoes then?
😆 –Diane at RVtravel.com
HA! very good…my laugh for the day!
Its been a few years, but I have eaten rattlesnake a few times. There used to be a restaurant in Vancouver, B.C. that served Rattle Snake. Sadly it is no longer open. The best way I could describe it was it sort of had the texture and taste of corned beef. Bon Apetit
As a much younger person, a group of us used to go out in the foothills near Morgan Hill CA and hunt rattlers. We would eat the meat and sell the skins to a local fellow who made things out of them. Not so sure I would do that now. At that age we were invincible.
Then why not just eat chicken if it tastes the same ?
I saw my first rattlesnake of the season yesterday. Unfortunately/fortunately it had gotten too close to the road crew’s bush hog mower.
Bite back sez me😎
I would eat anything except raw fish or the inside parts of any animal (although I have on both counts)
I’m vegetarian so not a hard choice.
Another “no-meat” eater.
Depends on how many pre-dinner cocktails I had.
I said yes but that probably means my wife won`t kiss me for a while.
I’ve tried it, wasn’t awful. I wouldn’t today because I’d think about the diet of a snake… rodents and babies, oh my!
I tried rattlesnake as an appetizer in a tomato based sauce a few years ago while traveling with friends. Tasted like chicken, no big deal.