https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/feds-say-eat-more-nutria/

Mmmm...

No way in the hell I'm eating a giant orange toothed rat unless society has collapsed and it comes down to a choice to eat it or starve to death.

Folks eat small, orange toothed, bushy tailed rats all the time. They go so far as to make dumplings with them.

Paging Marshmud !

First rule of Gumbo: Don't ask, its Gumbo.

Chiken is cheap Tboy!!!! I’m gonna have to be in a bad place before I eat a nutria. I’ve caught, skinned, scraped and dried way too many of those things in my youth. I’d eat a squirrel before a nutria and I’ve never eaten a squirrel because it reminds me of a big ole trash rat. Nope Nope Nope!!!

uh frank you i will have krung pow chickum

growing up, we made brunswick stew and gumbo with squirrel...it wasn't a big deal and nobody ever asked or complained.

we'd eat fried squirrel simmered in gravy if killed them late enough in the season. never really thought anything of it.

I'm in this camp. Will say, rats will be way down on my list of edibles in a doomsday scenario.

I can’t believe you have never eaten a nutria Marsh!!! I’ve eaten some small ones a couple of times and they are pretty good in a gravy not so much on the grill. Had some nutria sausage that real good.

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We all gonna die at some point, no sense in prolonging it by living off rats at that point.

When I was in the USAF - I had an assignment to Osan Korea (ultimately was canceled), I told my wife that the first thing I was going to do was to pick out a dog to eat. Not that I've ever eaten a dog, to the best of my knowledge, but since at some point in time I knew I was going to eat one - I at least wanted to pick it out. I suspect that I have eaten many things that I didn't know what it was - I guess at the end of the day "ignorance is bliss".

If you've never been to a 3rd world country - you'd be surprised at what you'll eat after a couple of weeks. You learn quickly to not ask any questions, just eat it and hope you don't get sick.

I don't guess they would be any worse than all the skwerls I ate when I was younger. It doesn’t sound as bad as several things I've tried in the past. Rattlesnake, oysters, clams, shark, grubs, softshell and snapping turtle all sound worse than nutria. Some of that stuff isn't bad at all. Eggplant artichokes and rudabeggars on the other hand, taste worse than most of that stuff.

I will try anything once. Squirrel is one of my favorite wild gamers when cooked right. So I’d probably like it if anything like them

They’re a OK for Lent so there is that
Alligators and beaver too since they swim so much and are fishy

Poke roll an grits

Never had a nutria but would give it a shot. We go squirrel hunting every year and cook them up. Fried squirrel and gravy with biscuits yum yum