People in the Southwest eat rattlesnakes. They taste like chicken.  ;-)

Arthur

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From: "Trish Tipton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 10:28 AM
Subject: [P-F] Garden snakes


> I went out to do my morning gardening, and i found a 4 1/2 foot garden
> snake.  Unusual beings how it is winter here, although winter here is
> around 50 degrees.   I left it alone, because we do get a lot of garden
> snakes here due to the mice in the neighboring field.  My kids asked if
> they could catch, skin it and eat it.  They are getting the hang of this
> paleo diet.  hehehe   So my question is,  are garden snakes edible?   I
> run across them about 2 times a month in the summer, and very rarely in
> the winter.  When we first moved here, we had gopher problems,  but our 4
> cats took care of that problem.  I wonder if I will have to fight my cats
> for the snake?  They are all on a raw food diet now too.
>
> Trish
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