have you ever eaten turtle soup?

[JohnCU]

this guy at work says he goes to new orleans every year to pick up some snapping turtle meat to bring it back to cook soup. anyone tried it? good? sounds... different.

 

[effowe]

"I like turtles"

 

[ivan2]

tastes very fishy.

correction: tastes like fish and blood on top of it.

 

[Vehemence]

Originally posted by: ivan2
tastes very fishy.

That's what I said

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: effowe
"I like turtles"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

:thumbsup:

 

[Oil]

Tastes like gator

 

[BurnItDwn]

Master Shredder speaks very highly of turtle soup. I've never tried it myself though.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
this guy at work says he goes to new orleans every year to pick up some snapping turtle meat to bring it back to cook soup. anyone tried it? good? sounds... different.

Actually yeah -- I visited NO over Halloween and had turtle soup at K-Paul's (Paul Prudhomme's restaurant). It was actually more like a chili but it was one of the best soups I've ever had. The turtle meat wasn't that special, it just absorbed the flavor of the soup -- kinda like chicken in that sense.

 

[GasX]

Ever have snapper soup? It's turtle not fish.

 

[Platypus]

TONIGHT I DINE ON TURTLE SOUP

 

[IGBT]

..not yet. It's on my list along with whale meat (BBQ).

 

[Doggiedog]

Yes.

In Japan.

Nasty...

Had whale before as well. Even nastier.

 

[eplebnista]

No. Never have had the opportunity.

 

[Fern]

Yeah, there's a place (or used to be) down in the FL Keys that offers it. IIRC, the name of the restaurant was the Green Turtle.

Fern

 

[RichardE]

Yep

I get this guy to catch em for me

Link

 

[AkumaX]

Shredder/Krang/Baxter: "Tonight I dine on turtle soup!!!"

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I've had it. There's a restaurant called The Catfish Place just outside of Kissimmee, Fl that serves a Cajun Trio platter which includes turtle soup, frog legs, and fried gator. The frog legs are my favorite but the turtle soup is very good. It has the consistency of chicken but a bit meatier taste.

 

[Farang]

No, I avoid everything turtle related after reading The Shame of Escobilla by Tim Cahill (couldn't find part I but part II is here: http://outside.away.com/outsid...cobilla-mexico-1.html))

 

[Squisher]

Yeah, a guy at work used to bring some in after he caught and killed his own.


From what he was telling me, it takes a long time for a turtle to figure out that it is dead. The muscles will try to move for hours and hours after being separated from the rest of the body. He would kill them by decapitating them, then do a real rough cleaning by spliting open the the shell and scooping out the innards, then throw the whole thing in a bag in the freezer until the next day when he felt like could cut it up without it squirming all over the place.

I guess hilarity can really ensue by asking your wife to make some soup from some freshly killed and cleaned meat. That is according to my friend.

 

[DrPizza]

Absolutely delicious; one of my favorite types of soup. Although, I seldom have the opportunity to have any.

 

[Born2bwire]

Not soup, but I have had a jello like food made from tortoise shells.

 

[ZOXXO]

Have eaten many turtles but never made soup with them.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Topic Title: have you ever eaten turtle soup?

Nope, but I would like to try it; I wonder if it is available where I live for a reasonable price

 

[loup garou]

I occasionally get it at Commander's, usually in their soup sampler (turtle, gumbo, du jour).