Bobcat, kinda stringy white meat but tasty.
On the one hand, that sounds great. On the other - with enough šljivovica , everything is excellent.
Possums (opossums technically) are omnivorous. I’ve never eaten one, but the recipe I have says to feed them a diet of persimmons for several weeks before slaughter. There might be other omnivores that I’ve eaten, but I can’t think of one at the moment.
Oh sure, catch me on a technicality…
Killjoy.
My grandmother had cat during WW2. According to her, it tasted like rabbit, but tougher.
I’ve had bear. Wasn’t all that great. Shark, OTOH, properly marinated and grilled is delicious. (Hey, they eat mammals. That oughta count for something.)
I have had both spring and fall black bear, the spring bear was pretty good kind of gamey, usually cooked in heavily seasoned dishes like chili or spaghetti. The fall bear was near inedible, tasted like the rotten salmon it had been gorging on.
Bobcat spaghetti, was different but good, like if you made spaghetti out of ground pork. It really did a number on my GI tract the next day.
I had a brown bear that lived far from salmon streams in the tundra, it was some of the best meat I have eaten. The problem was that it has to be cooked well done, as all wild omnivores should. It seemed like a waste of some really good steaks.
True. I think it would go well with red wine, too. It was served by itself in very thin slices along with serrano ham, manchego, olives, ayvar, bread, olive oil, etc.
According to author Jared Diamond, lion mean is pretty darn tasty. There are also people who still eat seals and whales which are also carnivorous mammals. Then there’s some of the smaller omnivore/carnivorous animals that people in North America used to eat (and some still do I imagine).
I’m pretty sure I’ve had dolphin. Tastes like tuna.
/rimshot
I dunno. I’d heard the same about horse meat, about how atrocious it tastes, until I actually tried it. Then I found out it tastes like a stronger version of beef and is actually pretty nice. It seems people just don’t like eating animals they keep as pets/are useful to humans. I’ve heard people turn their nose up at rabbit meat because they’re now being kept as pets, too.
Note, “we” not eating them is pretty culturally specific. He’s a recipe for cat casserole from a Tuscan chef. He praised the meat’s tenderness and said he’d eaten the succulent dish many times (the recipe got him fired after Italian animal rights activists went apeshit). People in the Veneto have also historically eaten cat (Vicenzans are still called mangiagatto) and it only recently died out (if it indeed has ;)) when the Italian government made it illegal to sell cat meat. Venetian butchers sell skinned rabbits with their heads still attached to assure people they are not buying a skinned cat. The meat’s also reputedly eaten in Switzerland, where it’s still legal to raise and kill them for private consumption.
A friend was in Vietnam doing research on monkeys. He was served dog by the family he lived with as a “treat”. He ate it to be polite. Immediately after dinner he went off and vomited. He gets nauseous today just telling the tale.
My brother has had lion and snake. He liked both.
Gator probably counts. Sharks are predatory fish.
Since alligators are reptiles and not mammals, I can’t imagine how they would count any more than a fish would.
MFK Fisher might have. It’s been a while since I read her How To Cook A Wolf, but you’d think she might be good for expanding the bibliography of references.
And here I was all set to say something about the Pope’s nose and my first girlfriend in high school. Nah, too easy. Go for the ex-wife-thing. Already been claimed, though.
My gosh, I can’t think of a single predatory mammal that I’ve ever eaten, not even the neighbor’s cat, which comes as a shock to my carnivorous self. It’s time to expand my diet.
I’m also surprised at how many people apparently don’t know what a mammal is nor what a predator is.
Some sharks are predators, but none of them are mammals. They’re fish.
All horses are mammals, but like pigs, cattle and deer, none of them are predators. They graze or forage or do whatever those non-predatory critters do.
Alligators and some snakes, like rattlers, are predatory, but none of them are mammals. They’re reptiles.
I watched Andrew Zimmern sit down for a sumptuous dinner of fried bat, definitely mammalian, but I don’t know if they were the predatory kind. They looked all crispy delicious though.
Ex-wives can definitely be predatory too, though many of them are reptilian, and in any case I don’t think that I would want to eat one.
Felines and canines certainly qualify, even the domestic kind. Wouldn’t it be something if the OP is serious about that cat? I don’t know any recipes for cat, but I do know that there’s more than one way to skin one.
Dog and cat.
No, cats are considered a taboo food among my people.
I’ve eaten raccoon, but it probably counts as more omnivorous than carnivorous. It was greasy, and definitely not something I’d want again. Possum is much the same. (American possum, that is.)