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Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very object
by haram_masala 3y ago
Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor.
Texas is contending with a similar problem, and if Texans can’t find a way to eat them, you know that meat is worthless.
- starkd 3y agoBut isn't that true of most any game meat? I've heard that bear meat can be tough and grisly, but I was told it depends on how you butcher it.
- mpsprd 3y agoI've eaten deer, moose and even beaver from hunting and trapping. They will taste amazing if handled well and given early to a butcher. Old bucks don't taste as good, but younger deer have amazingly tender meat.
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- Turing_Machine 3y ago> But isn't that true of most any game meat? Most so-called "gamey" meat is down to poor handling of the meat. Hogs are an exception... uncastrated males do taste bad to many people.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoI always thought gamey was from high activity of the muscles. Farmed animals certainly don’t run around forests fending for themselves
- b112 3y agoI always thought gamey was from high activity of the muscles An animal's diet affects its flavour. Eating all manner of random foods, makes partially the gamey flavour.
- wolfram74 3y agoIs this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoHow much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?
- tmoertel 3y agoDoes cooking not kill the parasites?
- HarryHirsch 3y agoCooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
- stametseater 3y agoGamma irradiation is very effective at killing trichinosis in swine flesh and is approved for this purpose in America.
- HarryHirsch 3y agoA cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts. In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)
- Turing_Machine 3y ago> very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor Uncastrated males do, certainly -- the same is true of domestic hogs. Females don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
- netr0ute 3y agoWhat if you slathered the meat with barbecue sauce and chili peppers? Then there might actually be a chance.
- mkoubaa 3y agoYes but we can process the shit out of the meat and add msg etc. It doesn't have to be bbq
- dgb23 3y agoThat's what I'm thinking too. There are a lot of products that are made from highly processed unidentifiable meat stuff. My dogs certainly wouldn't object to feral gamey pig meat either. I sometimes think the more disgusting the food the more they like it...
- wankle 3y ago> very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor Speaking as a gamer, I can relate.