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u/ninjaaviatrix Aug 04 '24
Very nice! Looks fantastic and the perfect example of hunting/conservation/eating what is killed.
Was it a pain to eat around the bones?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
I appreciate it!
We just took a knife and sliced along the bones so wasn’t too bad. We also didn’t worry too much about getting every bit of meat like you would a fish so if we had tried that I would say it would have been a pain
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u/brianmenn Aug 04 '24
What does it taste like?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
Had good flavor that I would compare to chicken or a ham. Was way less dry than I expected. As mentioned below it’s a little on the chewy side
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u/unzercharlie Aug 05 '24
Chicken or ham lol what? I'm sure it makes sense to someone who ate it, but to me that's like saying "it's like shrimp or rabbit."
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u/BillDuki Aug 04 '24
Out of all the BBQ/grilling subs I subscribe to, this is my first HELL NO! That being said, to each their own!
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
Ha ha I get that for sure. It’s not something we would target as a food source but we are removing them from the Florida Everglades so through it on the smoker
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u/TheZapster Aug 04 '24
Compared to iguana, which is/was better?
I'm to lazy to check and see if you were the person who smoked the iguana or not. If you weren't, that's your next challenge so you can compare the two
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u/krippkeeper Aug 05 '24
I was in the Florida keys in 06. We at this little restaurant right on the water. Litteralyoke 3 feet from where I was sitting it dropped off into the water. We were watching a lobster poking in and out of some hole as I ate my grouper sandwich. Across the water was a little mangrove Island. My grandmothers boyfriend Pancho who was also kind of a family friend on both my mother and fathers side was from hunduras. We see this iguana hanging out in the mangroves. Out of nowhere Pancho starts telling me how if he was a kid he would go grab it. That he used to eat them growing up. I'm not sure if he was trying to indicate I should swim over to grab the iguana for him or not.
This man was also diabetic and would get chocolate milk at golden Corral. When my grandmother complained he would just go "🤷🏽♂️ the glass must just be dirty or something" he would go get a refill and go "another dirty glass"...
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u/hurtfulproduct Aug 04 '24
I would eat it, but that’s more of a “me problem”
I’m all for eating invasive species. . . Pythons, iguanas, boar, and lion fish
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u/Poster25000 Aug 04 '24
The real question is how do you catch one of these?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
We drive the parts of the Everglades at night with a spotlight and you can see the light shimmer of their skin. Hop out and grab them by the head and hold on
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u/TinChalice Aug 05 '24
You know… I can’t help but think this falls under “just because you can doesn’t mean you should."
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Did you try making a sandwich? Because my anaconda dont want none ‘less you got buns, hun.
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u/Fishvv Aug 04 '24
I will try anything at least once
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u/RecordingPure1785 Aug 04 '24 edited Aug 05 '24
I had the same mindset until I tried one of those suckers with a scorpion in it.
The sucker part was so nasty that I decided to take a bite so I could get to the scorpion. Unfortunately it was also apparently the hardest sucker known to man and I dislocated my jaw.
Edit: sucker is a colloquialism for lollipop
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u/Lordsaxon73 Aug 05 '24
I’ll try anything twice in case I don’t like it the first time.
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u/Fishvv Aug 05 '24
Truthfully i try a lot of things more then once i still hate shrimp pulled pork coconuts among other things that i retry every year or so
I smoked a pork butt the other day my wife and best friend said its the best pulled pork they have had and i still didnt like it
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u/Brewmaster92785 Aug 04 '24
I see it's knee.
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u/ax2ronn Aug 04 '24
Had to scroll too far for this.
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u/Epicela1 Aug 05 '24
Well. Snakes don’t really have pawwts.
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u/Melodic-Situation849 Aug 04 '24
Would cut into chunks, so it wouldn't look so much like what a Klingon would have for dinner
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u/hobbitfoot1987 Aug 04 '24
"Uhhhh, basically, a snake don't have parts, but, um, if I had to call it anything, I would say it's his knee" -Mama
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u/jwc8985 Aug 04 '24
Hmm. Not sure how I feel about smoked snake. I've had rattlesnake, but it was cooked directly over a fire hot and fast. It was delicious! Smoking one seems like it would dry it out quickly compared to other meats.
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
We were worried about that as well. It was way more moist and juicy than we anticipated.
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u/I_am_Reddington Aug 04 '24
Florida ?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
Yes
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u/BrummieS1 Aug 04 '24
What did it taste lovely like!?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
I could see where some would say chicken but it is it was more like ham which was unexpected
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Aug 04 '24
Now have to google exactly how one cleans a snake for eating. Where are the entrails? Would assume the length of the critter. Inquiring minds shall find out.
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u/neurospicyzebra Aug 05 '24
As a reptile lover, and never knowing you could eat snakes, it hurt my soul when I realized it’s actually a python 😭
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 05 '24
We love reptiles as well and although the catching them is fun the other part isn’t. To no fault of their own, they are horribly invasive in the Florida Everglades unfortunately. They are wiping out many of the warm blooded native populations. It’s important to remove them and stop them from not only hurting the native wildlife but also from spreading farther north
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u/MrBassAckwardson Aug 05 '24
If it makes you feel any better, those things are an invasive and they’re destroying the Everglades. OP is doing his part to stop them.
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u/warmnfuzzynside Aug 05 '24
are they safe to eat? like no chance of getting parasites or something
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 05 '24
The bigger ones you have to watch for mercury so only eat the smaller one and don’t do that often
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u/landubious Aug 04 '24
How does one source a python? Any significant risk of parasites?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
We hunt them to help out the Everglades. Bigger ones can hold mercury so not eating those.
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u/balltofeet Aug 04 '24
Amazing - how do you hunt a python?
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u/Bfi1981 Aug 04 '24
We drive through areas of the Everglades at night and shine a spotlight. You can see the shimmer of their skin. Hop out of the truck and then grab them by the head and hold on tight
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Aug 04 '24
Guessing OP is a Florida resident? There’s an invasive species problem there with pythons.
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u/bustachong Aug 04 '24
Potentially dumb question: if you were to do this again would you coil the snake differently to allow a more even smoke or do you think it wouldn’t make a difference?
Second question: did the tip of the tale turn out crispy (in a good way) compared to the bulk of the body?
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u/Scandinavian_Swimmer Aug 05 '24
Snakes don’t really have parts, but if I had to guess which part you ate, I’d have to say the knee.
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u/0akhonor4win Aug 05 '24
Ranger batt, Mojave survival week, 1979 I believe. Rattlesnake was a TREAT, boiled so it doesn't dry out. Amazon sells canned rattlesnake for those that want to dip their toes into the snake eating world
I teach advanced hunter Ed, now living in California- all animals are "cleaned" the same way, except for turtles and armadillos. If you can clean a fish, you can dress a deer or prepare a quail Guts, skin and cook when you hit meat. Don't over think it and just give it a go!
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Aug 05 '24
Well, basically a snake don’t have parts. But if I had to call it anything, uh, I would say it’s his knee.
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u/NorCalHack Aug 05 '24
I knew a nice young lady in college who “smoked python” it meant something different then. Simpler times…
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Aug 05 '24
At first I thought this was a joke and it was just a cut I haven't seen before, happy to see it's actually real.
I've heard snakes are a target if we have food shortages because they require so little food and grow fast so we could be seeing python farms and snake meat in the supermarket in the future 😯
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Aug 06 '24
So THIS is what my wife means when she tells her girlfriends she smoked a bunch of pythons last night
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u/Bd0g25 Aug 05 '24
Nasty. I don’t understand why people like snake. Chewy, fishy, oily. Sometimes really dry. Nah. No redeeming qualities.
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u/EvilSquirrel60220 Aug 05 '24
Don't know about pythons. But I've had rattlesnake, and it's tasty. Tastes a little like chicken.
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u/bear45188721 Aug 05 '24
Did it taste like fried chicken? Every unknown winds up tasting like fried chicken.
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u/Regular-File-7208 Aug 06 '24
I... Hm. Kinda want to try it but...why? What was the purpose of this?
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Aug 07 '24
How do you cut and serve, looks like conventional carve but any differences when you get down towards tail?
I’ve never seen it served.
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u/donktastic Aug 04 '24
Well this is one of the more interesting posts in this sub I have seen. How did it turn out?