Protect the Coastal Wetlands: Eat Nutria

http://www.nutria.com/site25.php

So, who can put these pests on their list of animals they've eaten?

Best,
Michael

eatchicago wrote:http://www.nutria.com/site25.php

So, who can put these pests on their list of animals they've eaten?

Best,
Michael

Not eaten...but...

my fave nutria anecdote:

My parents an' I in the mid-80's would often journey out to Sugarland to visit with my widowed maternal grandfather(himself the one who introduced me to Houston hole-in-the-wall Chinese cuisines, chile heat, and Cajun foodstuffs). Just as often the family-ed dine at SugarStreet Seafood(where I first had alligator...that's not a good memory). Anyway, SugarStreet DID offer tasty crawfish preps and other simpler dishes...what really held my attention tho', was the "bayou" nee' ditch out back upon which SugarStreet's floor to ceiling windows opened out:

I was mesmerised by the veritable battalion of nutria swarming to and fro across the sewage seeping sullenly down the crick. Clouds of rat-like creatures tossing to and fro. Some people opine they's good eats.
They sure are coordinated.

I once by a winter coat on sale that I noticed later was lined with nutria fur. I used to call it my river rat coat.

A good friend of mine in Baton Rouge was closely involved in this promotion and, I believe, wrote part of that site. I'll see if I can score some gossip. (Which, I'll admit up front, really means "how much of the gossip is something I can pass along." There's some pretty damn weird background stuff on this, including a very specific target market for the rodents.)

I am pretty sure that Louisiana has a program whereby hunters get paid something like $4 per nutria tail to support nutria control efforts. Between the tail bounty and selling to adventurous cooks, sounds like a promising career.

Christopher Gordon wrote:

eatchicago wrote:http://www.nutria.com/site25.php

So, who can put these pests on their list of animals they've eaten?

Best,
Michael

Not eaten...but...

my fave nutria anecdote:

My parents an' I in the mid-80's would often journey out to Sugarland to visit with my widowed maternal grandfather(himself the one who introduced me to Houston hole-in-the-wall Chinese cuisines, chile heat, and Cajun foodstuffs). Just as often the family-ed dine at SugarStreet Seafood(where I first had alligator...that's not a good memory). Anyway, SugarStreet DID offer tasty crawfish preps and other simpler dishes...what really held my attention tho', was the "bayou" nee' ditch out back upon which SugarStreet's floor to ceiling windows opened out:

I was mesmerised by the veritable battalion of nutria swarming to and fro across the sewage seeping sullenly down the crick. Clouds of rat-like creatures tossing to and fro. Some people opine they's good eats.
They sure are coordinated.

Wow,

You've brought back quite a few memories with this one. I lived in Sugarland from 1980-87 while I was growing up. Sugar Street was one of my favorite places to eat. (Mostly because the waiters made sculptures out of the foil for your doggie bag.) My friends and I used those little rascals as target practice for his BB gun. I don't think we ever hit one, but I know we got a water mocassin right through the eye once, though. Another place I truly remember from Sugarland was Los Tios on the corner of Williams Trace and Hwy 6. It was our go to for Tex-Mex. Not to mention The Swinging Door for mesquite BBQ.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Flip

Flip wrote:

Christopher Gordon wrote:

eatchicago wrote:http://www.nutria.com/site25.php

So, who can put these pests on their list of animals they've eaten?

Best,
Michael

Not eaten...but...

my fave nutria anecdote:

My parents an' I in the mid-80's would often journey out to Sugarland to visit with my widowed maternal grandfather(himself the one who introduced me to Houston hole-in-the-wall Chinese cuisines, chile heat, and Cajun foodstuffs). Just as often the family-ed dine at SugarStreet Seafood(where I first had alligator...that's not a good memory). Anyway, SugarStreet DID offer tasty crawfish preps and other simpler dishes...what really held my attention tho', was the "bayou" nee' ditch out back upon which SugarStreet's floor to ceiling windows opened out:

I was mesmerised by the veritable battalion of nutria swarming to and fro across the sewage seeping sullenly down the crick. Clouds of rat-like creatures tossing to and fro. Some people opine they's good eats.
They sure are coordinated.

Wow,

You've brought back quite a few memories with this one. I lived in Sugarland from 1980-87 while I was growing up. Sugar Street was one of my favorite places to eat. (Mostly because the waiters made sculptures out of the foil for your doggie bag.) My friends and I used those little rascals as target practice for his BB gun. I don't think we ever hit one, but I know we got a water mocassin right through the eye once, though. Another place I truly remember from Sugarland was Los Tios on the corner of Williams Trace and Hwy 6. It was our go to for Tex-Mex. Not to mention The Swinging Door for mesquite BBQ.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Flip

I'm blown away that someone else on the forum used to eat there. It certainly wasn't a bad place, but in my subsequent years of experience I'd place it as a strong workmanlike seafood restaurant. As long as you avoided the alligator and...um...nutria.

I remember the name Los Tios, but I'm not sure that I ever actually ate there.

Sugarland at the time was also a treasure trove of mom n pop stripmall Chinese places. My grandfather would become "one of the family" with whatever restaurant was in his favor affording his progeny many off-the-menu specialties. Then he'd move on to the next place.

anyway...neato