Have you ever ate Turtle?

[dyhunter]

I don't post much, but the turtle soup thread brought back some memories. As a young lad in the 70's we would take the trip up from our town Tipp City, Oh to Minster Oh for the Octoberfest or it might have been in the spring, for some festival.

I think turtle soup in considered meatless so it was an option for us catholics during lent. They had huge (to me at the time) copper cauldrons turtle soup simmering. I remember it being very brothy and had hardboiled eggs in it.

On a side note Minster was once home to the Wooden Shoe Brewery which my moms dad and uncle had as one of there first client for their new business, Hugo Deis Distribution, based out of Dayton.



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[Sunroof]

One of the most amazing stories of survival at sea were the Robinson Family back in 1971. Several months into their voyage their sailboat, the 43 footer named Lucette was holed by a whale and the family of six survived in a raft at sea for 38 days.
One of the most incredible stories was of surviving on turtle blood, meat and the eye balls. The Robinson's were literally saved by eating turtles! One of the children savored the eye balls for its fluid while the family cut up the turtle meat, let it dry in the sun and ate the meat like jerky. They claimed the blood tasted very much like water. They were all alive when rescued by a Korean fishing vessel.

Read the story of their amazing survival and how critical sea turtles were in their keeping them alive.

Bob

[Rusty Heap]

Man, you gotta be hungryyyyyyy to appreciate the crunch of a good fresh eyeball.


Pops like a grape?

[stevej37]

^^^ plus..a turtles eyeball is not like an ordinary eyeball. They're flat and thin.
I can't imagine any taste to them.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by dyhunter

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Thanks for that. I've been through Minster, but I don't think I ever stopped. There is a lot of interesting culture in western Ohio, but is new to me. We'll make a day trip of a visit to Minster sometime soon.

[greglepore]

Had snapper soup on the menu of a restaurant I owned for a bit. We'd make around 5 gal every other week, from a large snapper that came from a seafood purveyor frozen. Picking the meat wasn't a particularly joyful process, but the soup was really good. There's a specific blend of spices that give it the unique flavor, but I have to suspect its partly to disguise the meat.

[911pcars]

I think people's cuisine choices are based on early family cuisine. Beef (cow), fowl (chicken, turkey), fish (seafood) and pork (pig) are US food staples. Lamb, calves (veal), rabbit, lobster/crab seem to be acceptable dinner fodder. Adventurous paths to alternate cuisine may depend on their facial features, a cuteness or revulsion factor. Thus, turtle, snake, deer, alligator, buffalo, sheep, goat, monkey, bear, insect and other "delicacies" may or may not be acceptable depending on open-mindedness, culture, food availability and hunger level. Maybe that's why people prefer not looking at their meal (e.g. chicken, fish) face-to-face?

[aldente]

If they are English, then their cuisine choices are based on avoiding early family cuisine.

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by aldente

If they are English, then their cuisine choices are based on avoiding early family cuisine.

Avoiding? Really? One of those British shows asked to list what the couple typically ate in a week, then the show layed it out. The containers of brew weren't shown: