Cats As Food

28 June 2008, 09:41

Skinner.

Cats As Food

I had some Hmong friends whom I ate with many times years ago. Used to save them bobcat carcasses from trapping, which I'd eat myself while trapping the desert. And bycatch from commercial fishing, they appreciated any fish I'd give them.

A couple times we had what I know was housecat, pretty tasty really. Just for the sport of it I'd howl like a coyote afterwards, seemed appropriate.

Anybody else ever ate housecat.

28 June 2008, 19:27

bucko

I can't help it,, this thread is just begging to be abused........

02 July 2008, 11:00

mike7mm08

I think it safe to say that anyone who has eaten cheap chinese takeout has at some point eaten cat

02 July 2008, 13:44

mustbhuntn

I have eaten mountain lion and it is very good.
As mike7mm08 said, I've only eaten house cat in take out chinese food. It was probably good too.

02 July 2008, 15:21

jpb

quote:
Originally posted by mike7mm08:
I think it safe to say that anyone who has eaten cheap chinese takeout has at some point eaten cat

Well, me for sure anyway.

I had the sweet and sour chicken balls -- at a restaurant which the local newspaper reported being closed by the public health department for serving cat.

There was a photo of a freezer with skinned cats... and no chicken was found on the premises.

It was indistinguishable from chicken... much like the mountain lion I had once (that one by intent!).

John

07 July 2008, 08:19

Dr. Lou

While elk hunting in Idaho, I was served what I thought were chicken stips. The fellow serving them asked if I like eating pussy and I replied: "absolutely!" That's when he told me that I was eating mountain lion. It was delicious - similar taste and texture as chicken. Lou

22 July 2008, 00:26

Mary Hilliard-Krueger

Was in Jamaica in the late 70's and after a long day of sunbathing, fishing and drinking we went to a local restaurant and ordered an island chicken dinner. Well...a chicken leg does not have 3 bones in the angulated shape of a 'cat' leg. Had a few more drinks while waiting for the food so...what the hell.. I ate a fine domestic cat meal that evening. It really was quite good!

25 October 2008, 01:23

Magnum Hunter1

While on safari in Zimbabwe back in 2003, one evening before supper, one of the waiters came around with appetizers and on one plate were strips of leopard. It had so many spices on it I couldn't really tell what the meat itself tasted like. But, what I had was pretty good.

25 October 2008, 15:12

Edmond

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/chinese.asp

26 October 2008, 05:09

JBrown

When I killed a lion in Zimbabwe we gave the backstraps to the camp cook. They were breaded and fried. The taste was similar to pork and very tender.

I also ate cheetah in Namibia. It was good, but not nearly as tasty as lion. I was surprised that the texture of the meat was courser than lion. But then, cheetah is more like a dog than a cat.

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27 October 2008, 08:21

Mary Hilliard-Krueger

Edmond.....

27 October 2008, 19:48

577NitroExpress

I remember back in the mid 1980s, in the town I grew-up in, there was a Chinese Restaurant place call the "Ho Wah".

When the health inspectors did an inspection, they found what was described in the newspapers as "meat of unknown origin."

The placed closed down due to a drop in business shortly afterwards.

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29 October 2008, 20:29

kurtv

A favorite cookbook of mine, "Unmentionable Cuisine" has a whole chapter devoted to cat (& dog) recipies. Here's a blurb on it from the Amazon site :
Unmentionable Cuisine
by Calvin, W Schwabe (Author) "BECAUSE OF PREJUDICE or ignorance, we Americans now reject many readily available foods that are cheap, nutritious, and good to eat..."

Keep an open mind and appetite!

05 November 2008, 07:55

sputster

When I was stationed in Korea, we would see street vendors with broiled "Meat on a Stick". When we asked what kind it was, we were told, "It's Meat on a Stick, now buy some or go away!" Tasty though.

08 November 2008, 23:40

Judge Jerry

We eat all our mtn. lions. Cook it just like you would venison/elk. It is best though made into jerky. We use the Hi- Mountain seasoning and cure. Smoke it with chipped apple wood. Tried the leopard, too, in Botswana. It was also good, but sure couldn't get anyone but the blacks to eat it with me.
Jerry

24 November 2008, 08:57

Singleshotlover

Anybody ever eat from one of the food cart vendors in olangapo city just outside from clark air force base. Yep, monkey on a stick. Honk kong had some identified meat we were eating at a restaurant. I asked the waitress what we were eating. She only spoke chinese, the words were "woof woof". Clear as a bell in my book. Frank

24 November 2008, 21:29

boom stick

There is a peruvian festival every year that celebrates a 2 day event of eating cats. It is part of the Chincha-Pisco-Ica's culture.

20 December 2009, 07:35

BIG1LOST

quote:
Originally posted by Skinner.:
I had some Hmong friends whom I ate with many times years ago. Used to save them bobcat carcasses from trapping, which I'd eat myself while trapping the desert. And bycatch from commercial fishing, they appreciated any fish I'd give them.

A couple times we had what I know was housecat, pretty tasty really. Just for the sport of it I'd howl like a coyote afterwards, seemed appropriate.

Anybody else ever ate housecat.

had some left-overs at my phillipino in-laws once,,they let me eat some b-4 they said what it was,,didn't like the sauce,loved the meat tho,,,but I like most stuff of P.I. foodwise.Thier little women are tasty as well!!!!!!

21 December 2009, 07:29

A7drvr

Singleshotlover; is that the same Olongapo City that's actually adjoining the now closed Naval Base at Subic Bay, but nowhere close to Clark AFB? I've eaten that "monkey meat on a stick" numerous times; however, I was always tricked or lied to, as the rest of the meat on the grill was definitely "fowl", as in chicken!

26 December 2009, 18:14

Collins

When I was in Ha Noi last year there were dogs being cooked on spits on the street. No embarrassment, no denials. Just dog on spit.

29 December 2009, 09:52

Skipper488

Yeah, I was in Olongapo, Hard telling what you ate from the cart vendors, It all tasted good. But then again the beer was strong enough to strip the paint off the hulls of our ships so after a few of those there weren't many taste buds still working in our mouths. LOL

30 December 2009, 04:57

p dog shooter

I saw a bumper sticker once it said

So Many Cats so Few Recipes.

I really some day need to get one.

30 December 2009, 19:47

DLS

I've never eaten housecat, but have enjoyed leopard back straps, and they were quite good. Very similar to eating pork loin. When I shot my first leopard, I asked my PH is they ate the cats, and he replied that he hadn't, but the meat always seemed to disappear with the staff, so he figured they must like 'em. We took off the back straps and braai'ed them that evening, and I'd eat leopard again without hesitation.

02 January 2010, 05:49

rick boggs

and to think people make fun of kentuckians for eating possum and ground hog

03 January 2010, 16:28

mousegun1

Suppose our Pilgrim Forefathers had bagged a Bobcat instead of a Turkey...What would we be eating for Thanksgiving dinner now??.........jJust wondering.

14 January 2010, 02:44

John Frederick

Meat is meat.

Good cat = dead cat.

Pass the soy sauce please.

17 January 2010, 19:27

killahog

I have never eaten housecat I don't think it would be worth the effort they are so hard to skin.

18 January 2010, 09:38

dempsey

I prefer a good steak off a Lab or Springer

19 January 2010, 03:57

458Win

I first ate house cat while in college as there were two Chinese students on the dorm floor who caught strays and cooked them in their popcorn popper. I have since eaten Lynx and mountain lion and they are all excellent meat.

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19 January 2010, 20:58

Dark Continent

quote:
Originally posted by 458Win:
I first ate house cat while in college as there were two Chinese students on the dorm floor who caught strays and cooked them in their popcorn popper. I have since eaten Lynx and mountain lion and they are all excellent meat.

Cooking cats in a popcorn popper. Do they serve those with extra butter?

21 January 2010, 19:02

dogcat

Denzel Washington takes one with a bow, eats it and feeds part of it to mouse in "The Book of Eli". Looked ok on the big screen.

23 January 2010, 19:21

Vanderhoef

Thirty years ago while living in Alaska the local burger joint was shut down. Seems their "Husky burger" was just that.

Everyone was mad as hell!!!....they had the best burgers in town and those pesky stray sled dogs were no longer an issue. Very resourceful.

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02 March 2010, 22:43

Clem

I bet Dragon Lady could offer some recipes.

09 March 2010, 22:22

Crazyhorseconsulting

Never tried housecat, but bobcat is excellent.

Supposedly, it is still a law in England that a rabbit carcass has to have one hind foot still attached so people will know it is bunny instead of Roof Rabbit.

14 April 2010, 12:41

guncurtis2

When in Malaysia while on deployment in the Marines, i ate some "beef" stroganoff. My friend SWORE it was cat, but i was way to intoxicated to know. It probably was, cuz there were tons of stray cats and no cows anywhere near ther. As i remember it, it was pretty good.

Cats, the OTHER other white meat.