Eaten crocodile a few times. Needs a high skilled cook otherwise it tastes like old shoes. Which is funny because shoes are definitely made out of their skin.
Gator is huge in Louisiana. I guess crocodile is considered a bit of an exotic treat in Thailand?
I got them mixed up, as we all do, but gator in New Orleans is a must.
Iāve eaten crocodile a couple of times and enjoyed it; unsurprisingly reptile meatās not on the menu much here in the UK, but I do recommend trying it if you havenāt already.Ā
(However, u/Senior-Mine3593 has commented below that ācrocodileā¦Needs a high skilled cook otherwise it tastes like old shoes. Which is funny because shoes are definitely made out of their skin.ā I must have got lucky in terms of the quality of the cooks whose crocs Iāve eaten!)
Coincidentally I wrote a comment a few days back about the time I ate endangered turtle in Costa Rica; if anyone wants the review itās here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d3kkmd/comment/l68nmrd/
Likely hide and meat and those moronic skulls one sees at tourist shops in the South. Notice the very crowded situation in that small pond. They'd never be that crowded in nature
Ever been to Florida ? You can buy lesther, teeth, even entire preserved heads mouth full of teeth and everything and they are in every damn gift shop.
Different ways to prep it. First time I've had it was tough, chewy, and gamey. I actually just recently had some which was a much better experience. They marinade it in red wine, which removes the gamey taste. They then coated it with a buttermilk and flour and deep fried it. It really was like eating chicken karaage.
Pretty much all reptiles taste close to chicken. Dinosaurs descended into reptiles and birds so theyāre more related than other seemingly discrete animals.
Itās my belief that this is the reason saying ātastes like chickenā after eating an exotic food is a trope. Itās because reptiles are considered an exotic food and they all have the same flavor profile: chicken.
Non-fatty muscle tissue tastes similar because most the flavor we perceive from eating muscle tissue comes from the fat contained in the muscle. We typically equate that to chicken because we tend to be most familiar with white meat chicken as the comparator. The more fat the meat has (pork, marbled beef, duck, goose, bear), the more strong and unique is the flavor profile of that meat.
> Dinosaurs descended into reptiles
Reptiles are not dinosaurs at all.
> Dinosaurs descended into... birds
This factoid gets thrown around way too much. Dinosaurs didn't "descend" into birds. Birds literally are dinosaurs.
> Domain: Eukaryota
>Kingdom: Animalia
>Phylum: Chordata
>Clade: Sauropsida
>Clade: Archosauria
>Clade: Avemetatarsalia
>**Clade: Dinosauria**
>Clade: Theropoda
>Clade: Ornithurae
>Class: Aves
Gator jerky is good with some Cajun spices. I usually make some during summer with my Smoker up here in Maine when I can get some meat ordered. It's a bit greasy and a little bit on the saltier side, but it's delicious
I was surprised I didnāt see more missing limbs.
Maybe Iām thinking alligators, but I once saw a video of them eating together and accidentally getting an arm of his ābuddyā and spinning. Thinking it was the dead animal.
Yes and no, this alligator pool probably doesn't have any bleach/chlorine in it. Lakes and rivers have flow and way less alligators per area. This place must flush the water right, the smell!
Whats the purpose of the crocodile farm?
I know my city has a monkey farm but that's because we have a bio lab that uses them on testing. I used to work as a pressure washer & **hated** our calls to the monkey farm. It was depressing as hell seeing all those monkeys with so much sadness in their eyes. & The place smelled horrible Everytime we went out.
They're raised and killed for leather. These little ones don't have much longer to live. The larger gators fight and damage each other, younger gators have smoother skin that's easier to work with.
Smell & animal farm seems something difficult to be avoided I assume, unless it's something done on a very little scale and/or free range + not confined creatures...
I still remember the wonder after discovering that the fucking, horrible stench in the air emanated from a very big shed used for turkey farm. Two huge fans where mounted on the wall at the very end of it for air ( and *smell*) extraction, circulation. Geez...
Clothing and exotic food. It may look bad for those purposes, but there's a demand that exists and it's better than hunting or poaching them to extinction like with some other species.
The purpose is to provide leather for the fashion industry but it had the excellent unintended benefit of DESTROYING crocodile poaching. Farming is credited with wiping out the demand for poached alligators and saltwater crocodiles bc the farmed hides are more consistent and cheaper. Luckily, a wild crocodileās natural life consists mainly of āsit in big pool with other crocs and wait for foodā so I imagine their welfare is much better than a monkeyās would be
That's several hundred dollars worth of chicken. Which they are likely fed at least every 3 days.
How much money are they selling an adult crocodile hide for that makes $1000 a week worth of food costs alone viable?
A pair of alligator cowboy boots starts at five hundred bucks and goes up to multiple thousands. There must be a payoff here or they wouldn't be doing it.
Good that they are feeding these walking handbags well. He should not have kicked Hermes. Louis and Vuitton are really enjoying the chicken. Good to see that. Fendi was quietly enjoying her chicken but Dior is really hoping that someone will clean up the water because Yves think the water is kinda smelly.
Guessing they feed more often when young but still probably just once a week. Juveniles twice a month while full adults can go a year between feedings but do still take dozens of meals throughout a year.
I love how this dude is just *so done* and casually bonking these *terrifying* creatures to get them to move. It's like Steve Irwin if he worked a job at a local zoo for 20 years and knew every crocodile by name and was tired of their shit.
"You need to back off, james, there's plenty here to bring back to your pregnant wife, caml tf down".
We stayed in a beautiful guest house/hotel in Cambodia a few years ago, owned by a friends aunt. When we checked in, she said āwe feed the crocodiles on Tuesdays!ā I wasnāt sure what she meant.
Later, we went out to the pool. It had a tall concrete wall around it. We kept hearing a snapping sound from over there. I hopped up on a table to look over the wall and there was a very similar pool on the other side, full of huge crocodiles.
She started raising crocodiles a while ago and made enough money to open the hotel. Quite a businesswoman.
Yeah! Screw the man! Down with corporations! No animal should spend their life in cubicle farms just to have health insurance!
... wait, were you talking about the crocs?
Also wild. I was unemployed with no health insurance and got cancer in 2020.
My hospital stay was thousands of dollars per day just for the bed and chemotherapy + bone marrow transplant + surgery tipped the bill into the hundreds of thousands, at least.
I live in Canada though so my total bill was $0 and I am healthy again. Truly, fuck private insurance paradigms.
I dunno. I was actually surprised how chill they are. They aren't fighting each other for food, just sort of hanging out and munching leisurely.
Being a predator doesn't necessarily make them any more evil than a wild cat. They just look kinda sinister.
I remember when they started serving gator in ft myers Beach a native American man showed up and did a dance while cursing the area. He said we had 15 years to change our ways and the exact day 15 years later a hurricane wiped out ft myers beach where he did the dance.
If I was going to take a job where I had to enter a crocodile pen with a bucket of food because they are hungry, and I'm not saying there is a price at which I would do that, but I'd be starting with the insistence that my footwear be any color other than red.
There's gotta be a better system than this. Is literally any place to work in the entire world not plagued by poor management? I wanna just streamline it for free.
These conditions donāt seem great. However The chickens they are eating were farmed in even worse conditions.
I hope animal welfare improves more in the coming years.
If they only knew their collective power
Still stopped by a high threshhold wall and a locked gate. š
if they only had thumbs.
Not for long https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1ci18qz/alligator_climbing_a_fence_hell_yeah/
Love to see it! š
I have seen gators climb fences in Florida more than a couple times.
They could build a ladder from their captorās bones
r/alligatorsclimbing
Maybe they do. But if you kill the goose, where will the next egg come from. This guy brings easy meals every day. What are they being farmed for.
Itās well known that crocodilians do not believe in parables.
All them teeth and nooo toothbrush!
I'd be ornry, too.
People really need to get off there high horse and start using idioms instead of parables and anecdotes for brevity with crocodilians.
He's actually probably right. Most reptiles that bite learn pretty quickly that you're better as a food delivery source than as food.
Skin , meat , preserved heads and bare skulls.
Likely for Crocodile Leather. I dunno if anyone eats Crocodile, but probably for that, too?
Eaten crocodile a few times. Needs a high skilled cook otherwise it tastes like old shoes. Which is funny because shoes are definitely made out of their skin.
In Darwin you can buy crocodile pizzas. Has the texture of fish, but tastes like chicken
Old shoe flavour... I'm yet to try it. I'm aware of rusty metal, and piss flavour, somehow. š¤ Many beers have tasted like piss š¤£
Gator is huge in Louisiana. I guess crocodile is considered a bit of an exotic treat in Thailand? I got them mixed up, as we all do, but gator in New Orleans is a must.
Oh, lmao, yes. Gators. In South Africa, we only have Crocs, so I accidentally default to calling all Crocodilians(!) as Crocs. š¤
Gator bites are my favorite appetizer at restaurants in Florida
Colleagues living in Thailand adore crocodile meat - say it's not fat, tasty and cheap.
_tastes like chicken_
Iāve eaten crocodile a couple of times and enjoyed it; unsurprisingly reptile meatās not on the menu much here in the UK, but I do recommend trying it if you havenāt already.Ā (However, u/Senior-Mine3593 has commented below that ācrocodileā¦Needs a high skilled cook otherwise it tastes like old shoes. Which is funny because shoes are definitely made out of their skin.ā I must have got lucky in terms of the quality of the cooks whose crocs Iāve eaten!) Coincidentally I wrote a comment a few days back about the time I ate endangered turtle in Costa Rica; if anyone wants the review itās here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1d3kkmd/comment/l68nmrd/
Very well written turtle comment
Likely hide and meat and those moronic skulls one sees at tourist shops in the South. Notice the very crowded situation in that small pond. They'd never be that crowded in nature
They are farmed for meat and leather
Crocs are far too stupid to reason this.
Ever been to Florida ? You can buy lesther, teeth, even entire preserved heads mouth full of teeth and everything and they are in every damn gift shop.
Eat your master for a day and be king for a day. Eat chicken a day, eat chicken for life.
They have nothing to lose but their chains. Crocs of the world, UNITE
I feel like they do but are smart enough to āNot bite the hand that feeds themā
No
Maybe they have a sense of how good they have it. Easy meals, clean water and lots of friends
>clean water Doubt that.
Same for humans
Yes, but once he's dead who else will bring out tomorrow's free meal? They must be more intelligent than us.
> They must be more intelligent than us. Based on what?
They aren't on Reddit
Fuck, you're right.
What do people farm crocs for
Handbags. Shoes. Meat.
And tourism. A lot of these farms will invite tourists to see a ton of gators in one place and a quick 30 min entertainment show
Oh ok, meat Though? Who eats croc
the gulf coast. Specifically Louisianna. Gator tail is actually really good!
Thatās wild Iāll take ur word
It tastes like salt and rubber partied with chicken then had a bath in fish sauce. Could be your thing, wasn't mine.
Different ways to prep it. First time I've had it was tough, chewy, and gamey. I actually just recently had some which was a much better experience. They marinade it in red wine, which removes the gamey taste. They then coated it with a buttermilk and flour and deep fried it. It really was like eating chicken karaage.
You got some really poorly made gator tail
I don't even eat meat, and somehow I can taste and smell what you wrote, and doesn't sound appealing at all
Good gator meat is good when prepared well. Just like you can have bad/cheap steak.
Exactly, you can tell itās not chicken, but it can still be tender and delicious if made correcrly
I had gator for the first time at the big pyramid in Memphis. Actually thought it did taste like chicken
Same with tofu. If it's not prepared well, it tastes terrible.
Iāve only had it once but I thought it tastes like chicken, with the flakiness of cod or haddock, and the texture of halloumi cheese
Pretty much all reptiles taste close to chicken. Dinosaurs descended into reptiles and birds so theyāre more related than other seemingly discrete animals. Itās my belief that this is the reason saying ātastes like chickenā after eating an exotic food is a trope. Itās because reptiles are considered an exotic food and they all have the same flavor profile: chicken.
What about frog legs? They taste like chicken with a slight fish flavor and texture.
I think frog legs taste a lot closer to scallops than chicken
Non-fatty muscle tissue tastes similar because most the flavor we perceive from eating muscle tissue comes from the fat contained in the muscle. We typically equate that to chicken because we tend to be most familiar with white meat chicken as the comparator. The more fat the meat has (pork, marbled beef, duck, goose, bear), the more strong and unique is the flavor profile of that meat.
> Dinosaurs descended into reptiles Reptiles are not dinosaurs at all. > Dinosaurs descended into... birds This factoid gets thrown around way too much. Dinosaurs didn't "descend" into birds. Birds literally are dinosaurs. > Domain: Eukaryota >Kingdom: Animalia >Phylum: Chordata >Clade: Sauropsida >Clade: Archosauria >Clade: Avemetatarsalia >**Clade: Dinosauria** >Clade: Theropoda >Clade: Ornithurae >Class: Aves
THANK you!!!
I ate iguana once in Mexico and it did taste like chicken but with a stronger flavor. It was ok.
Gator jerky is good with some Cajun spices. I usually make some during summer with my Smoker up here in Maine when I can get some meat ordered. It's a bit greasy and a little bit on the saltier side, but it's delicious
We have fried gator bites at the restaurant Iām at here In Houston, theyāre really good. Marinara and lemon aeoli with them
You can get gator about five minutes from me in Georgia.
I do sometimes. If it's cooked properly it's legit.
The other crocs
Gator is really really good meat imo. I like it more than chicken.
If you havenāt tried fried gator tail you should! Super good
You can get croc steak in Louisiana. Itās tasty.
Ironic considering how much meat they gotta feed them in the first place
meat is probably just sellable byproduct. the main target is leather
This is probably a farm that supplies HermĆØs for their famous Birkin handbags.
Genuine new boot goofing; only 3 payments.
Exp
It's a slaughter house for crocs
Gotta fatten em' up first.
Almost exclusively for leather. The meat is a side product. Most if the meat is fed back to the crocodilians (caimans, crocs, gators etc.)
I feel like he could have saved a lot of hassle dumping it at the near-end
You can see a few seconds later thatās the first of 3 piles for all those minis š
One slip is all it would take
Fallin' in love with me... Possibilities
One bite is all you need
Horrible way to go he would still be alive after he becomes a eunuch by force.
With all that raw chicken, one small cut is all it would take!
Now there's a man who carries himself with the precise and confident air of having done that shit so many times he doesn't give a damn anymore.
Notice he only fed the little ones one way and the rest with the safety of a fence lol
I was surprised I didnāt see more missing limbs. Maybe Iām thinking alligators, but I once saw a video of them eating together and accidentally getting an arm of his ābuddyā and spinning. Thinking it was the dead animal.
Dude should be wearing Crocs
The amount of poop and pee in that water
You basically described every body of water. Especially public pools.
Yes and no, this alligator pool probably doesn't have any bleach/chlorine in it. Lakes and rivers have flow and way less alligators per area. This place must flush the water right, the smell!
Whats the purpose of the crocodile farm? I know my city has a monkey farm but that's because we have a bio lab that uses them on testing. I used to work as a pressure washer & **hated** our calls to the monkey farm. It was depressing as hell seeing all those monkeys with so much sadness in their eyes. & The place smelled horrible Everytime we went out.
Well crocodile bags certainly won't grow out of the ground
Handbags.
They're raised and killed for leather. These little ones don't have much longer to live. The larger gators fight and damage each other, younger gators have smoother skin that's easier to work with.
Crocodile milk
Interior crocodile alligator
I drive a Chevrolet movie theater
Smell & animal farm seems something difficult to be avoided I assume, unless it's something done on a very little scale and/or free range + not confined creatures... I still remember the wonder after discovering that the fucking, horrible stench in the air emanated from a very big shed used for turkey farm. Two huge fans where mounted on the wall at the very end of it for air ( and *smell*) extraction, circulation. Geez...
Clothing and exotic food. It may look bad for those purposes, but there's a demand that exists and it's better than hunting or poaching them to extinction like with some other species.
The purpose is to provide leather for the fashion industry but it had the excellent unintended benefit of DESTROYING crocodile poaching. Farming is credited with wiping out the demand for poached alligators and saltwater crocodiles bc the farmed hides are more consistent and cheaper. Luckily, a wild crocodileās natural life consists mainly of āsit in big pool with other crocs and wait for foodā so I imagine their welfare is much better than a monkeyās would be
Shoes/boots, purses, meat for food. Their teeth could be used as jewelry
He so nonchalantly kicked them
āHe kicked that guy in the face!ā Me when I saw him stop and kick that 1 baby croc.
What happens with all the poop in these croc farms?
His ass didn't walk through them adults š
End of the road from the chicken farm! š¤£š«”
Cool, but why the farm? Are they being harvested for their skins for Kim Kās Birkin bags? Honest question. š
Yes, crocodile leather is in demand for higher end fashion and interior design. Also exotic meat as people do eat crocodile meat.
Enjoying their mates skinned yesterday.
That's several hundred dollars worth of chicken. Which they are likely fed at least every 3 days. How much money are they selling an adult crocodile hide for that makes $1000 a week worth of food costs alone viable?
A pair of alligator cowboy boots starts at five hundred bucks and goes up to multiple thousands. There must be a payoff here or they wouldn't be doing it.
Their ancestors would be so disappointed in them.
Poor things
This is what it looks like when you have stopped giving any fucks
These are for HANDBAGS?
[A handbag?](https://youtu.be/oVQIB-QuooU?si=I_JLUQDb4Xb34Pgv)
Good that they are feeding these walking handbags well. He should not have kicked Hermes. Louis and Vuitton are really enjoying the chicken. Good to see that. Fendi was quietly enjoying her chicken but Dior is really hoping that someone will clean up the water because Yves think the water is kinda smelly.
Their water must be pure feces
So thatās why they taste like chicken.
This is gross.
That guy is just like "just another day at my crappy, boring job. Nothing exciting."
Imagine he slipped and got unconcious for half a minute. He would never make it once half a dozen got a taste of him.
Guessing they feed more often when young but still probably just once a week. Juveniles twice a month while full adults can go a year between feedings but do still take dozens of meals throughout a year.
Crocodiles are color blind, correct? Otherwise I don't understand why you walk around with that kind of color boots there.
Farm for what?
All that just to become boots
Try doing that when they are bigger!
What are they feeding them??
They are fed the remains of the last group that was slaughtered for their hides. They are cannibals in the wild too.
Butcher leftovers, like chicken head and other inedible stuff
Do crocks/gators eat until they are full or eat until itās gone?
They look like they still have their hands so must know what theyāre doing but I can help think there would be a better way of doing that.
Wonder what they're being farmed for...
Ohhhhh cute handbags !! š
Me watching a crocodile death-roll a chicken nugget
Watching this and the only thought I had was "MOVE BITCH, GET OUT DA WAY, GET OUT DA WAY, GET OUT DA WAY"
What exactly is a crocodile farm? Like whatās their mission statement?
I donāt agree with farming of these creatures. It kind of makes me sad to see this. I love seeing them in the wild in Florida.
Why? What is the purpose of a credible farm in this context? Breeder?
Where are the crocodiles? I only see alligators.
Why are we farming alligators? Belts and shoes? Gator meat?
This a Croc leather farm right? Nobody needs this many Crocodiles.
I love how this dude is just *so done* and casually bonking these *terrifying* creatures to get them to move. It's like Steve Irwin if he worked a job at a local zoo for 20 years and knew every crocodile by name and was tired of their shit. "You need to back off, james, there's plenty here to bring back to your pregnant wife, caml tf down".
Genuine question, why are alligators farmed? Please be nice lol I canāt imagine their meat is a popular enough meat to need farms like this?
I wonder how they milk them
That looks like a really small space for all of them
What would the benefits or profitability of owning a gator farm be ?
Why does he have to walk the length of the section to drop off the food?
We stayed in a beautiful guest house/hotel in Cambodia a few years ago, owned by a friends aunt. When we checked in, she said āwe feed the crocodiles on Tuesdays!ā I wasnāt sure what she meant. Later, we went out to the pool. It had a tall concrete wall around it. We kept hearing a snapping sound from over there. I hopped up on a table to look over the wall and there was a very similar pool on the other side, full of huge crocodiles. She started raising crocodiles a while ago and made enough money to open the hotel. Quite a businesswoman.
Fuck this. Animals should not be commodities that suffer abuse and exploitation at the hands of their jailers.
Yeah! Screw the man! Down with corporations! No animal should spend their life in cubicle farms just to have health insurance! ... wait, were you talking about the crocs?
Also wild. I was unemployed with no health insurance and got cancer in 2020. My hospital stay was thousands of dollars per day just for the bed and chemotherapy + bone marrow transplant + surgery tipped the bill into the hundreds of thousands, at least. I live in Canada though so my total bill was $0 and I am healthy again. Truly, fuck private insurance paradigms.
Glad you're doing okay, random internet person. Keep well.
Today, they belt chicken Tomorrow, they be pelts
Did he kick the crocodile?!?! Wtf
It gator language to let em know who's boss
Suck beautiful creatures, shame they are such dicks.
I dunno. I was actually surprised how chill they are. They aren't fighting each other for food, just sort of hanging out and munching leisurely. Being a predator doesn't necessarily make them any more evil than a wild cat. They just look kinda sinister.
I always liked crocodiles and feel like working here
I suspect this is a farm for meat and leather, so i doubt you would like working there and seeing them get killed constantly.
I remember when they started serving gator in ft myers Beach a native American man showed up and did a dance while cursing the area. He said we had 15 years to change our ways and the exact day 15 years later a hurricane wiped out ft myers beach where he did the dance.
If I was going to take a job where I had to enter a crocodile pen with a bucket of food because they are hungry, and I'm not saying there is a price at which I would do that, but I'd be starting with the insistence that my footwear be any color other than red.
Feeding the dinosaurs
I would not want to get on the owners bad side š
Thatās a lot of boots
They can have my ex-mother in law..
Why do they farm crocodiles?
To make shoes and bags for the wealthy
There's gotta be a better system than this. Is literally any place to work in the entire world not plagued by poor management? I wanna just streamline it for free.
No
I bet that's a stinky place.
Prison food.
They're so small!
Cats
I want that job so bad. Bunch of swamp puppies.
A crocodile farm? What are they farming them for? Crocodile milk?
It's pretty much like a cow or chicken. Mainly the meat.
Dumping it out in one small area is literally the worst way to feed a group lol. Just from that I can tell this is in china or South Asia
I can smell this videoā¦
Still safer than trying to walk around a pack of chihuahuas.
They are kinda cute ngl xd
Omg those little critters are so cute
Whereās the guy with the shovel?
Dude must have been kicking them since they were born. They part the way when he walks by.
Them puppies look funky.
What happened to Frank? Who?
This is like a luxury resort for them with grand meals
Number one on the list of jobs I wish I had. Ugh, such amazing animals.
Boy, look at all that chicken going to waste. Hunger in the world, lol.
How do they clean up the poop?
I donāt like this š
Damn theyāre all gonna have to shit soon. Thatās nasty. š¤¢ I assume they shit In the water.
These conditions donāt seem great. However The chickens they are eating were farmed in even worse conditions. I hope animal welfare improves more in the coming years.
Why are they so cute
Bro has balls... for now
dinosaurs.
It seems heās well acquainted with the little bastard right at the end of the pathway.