The animal, not the candy.
How was it prepared? How did it look? How did it smell? How did it taste?
Just curious.
A girlfriend made me turtle soup once. I remember liking it, but I cannot recall if it had a distinctive flavor.
I’ve eaten turtle several times. It was always known as ‘critter’. We would be served stew on my great-uncle’s farm. Whatever was in the freezer from last years’ hunt goes into the stew. Could be rabbit, could be squirrel, could be dead turtle run over by the truck.
So, I don’t know what it tastes like, though I remember it being fatty. That could have been ox tail, though.
I have. And it didn’t taste like chicken 
The meat is dark brown and tender, the texture much like that of over-boiled beef. I doesn’t have any distintive flavor so I can’t really remember what it tasted like.
I’ve eaten turtle, alligator and rattlesnake --oddly enough, all in different kinds of stew. The texture of all reminded me of beef, as already mentioned, and for me a big part of taste is the texture of meat. All in all, rattlesnake had the most distinctive flavor, but it could have been the fact that it was browned in lard befre it was stewed. The alligator and turtle stews were okay, but as the flavor of each was essentially bland, I can only compare it to the most nondescript steak you’ve ever eaten. I was particularly disappointed by the alligator – I usually compare it to weak beef.
One night, I was working at my then job as a busboy in a restaurant, and one of my coworker’s hubby was behind the bar eating some kind of stew that had not come from the kitchen (slow night). He offered me a bite. I tasted, I liked. He said “It’s turtle.” I took another bite. “Really? You’re not putting me on? This is really turtle?” He insisted that it was. He had to take it away from me, or I would have eaten all of it.
It did taste pretty much like beef.
I had turtle soup in New Orleans, and it was a spicy brown gumbo-like concoction. The chunks of meat had a beefy texture, so there you go.
I had turtle at a restaurant in NYC’s Chinatown. I liked it a lot and have been meaning to get back to have it again. If the restaurants in Philly’s Chinatown serve it, maybe I’ll go there instead.
Unfortunately, I can not remember what it tasted like nor can I remember the texture.
My Granny used to fatten up turtles (cooters if you please) and cook them all the time. They taste like rabbit. She could skin them without breaking the shell, she was going to show me how but we never got around to it and she has passed on. When I was little, my father caught a loggerhead in a shrip net. He brought it home and we ate it. It was a long time ago and I don’t remember what it tasted like. I really like alligator, I think it tastes like fish.
You guys do realise that turtles are highly endangered?
Not every turtle species is endangered.
Aren’t they crunchy?
Cooters are actually a pest in fishing ponds. On the other hand loggerheads are endangered but are frequently drowned in shrimpboat nets especially before turtle exclusion devices (teds) were invented. The loggerhead that dad brought home was drowned accidentally in a net. I guess he should have thrown it away as it was illegal to have.