Bob Pastorio > wrote in message >...
> Kenneth Leja wrote:
>
> > And how do you eat it?
>
> Country folks hereabouts in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia eat
> local snapping turtles and claim they have 7 different meats.
>
> Different parts of the critter, so they claim, have different flavors
> and chewing characteristics. In my experience, I've seen three, the
> feet, the upper legs and neck, and the body meat. Different like pork
> has different kinds of meat in different parts.
>
> The legs taste like chicken. The rest is, well, different.
>
> Pastorio


I personally like turtles too much to kill them. They are beautiful
animals. But for those who hunt turtles, how do they kill them?
Indeed, why kill an animal that nature went to such trouble to
protect. If God gave turtles a hard shell, it must be for a good
reason.