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@carnivore: the guy I used to work for sold small alligator claws on sticks as back scratchers (see my previous post).

@hungryhungryhippo: email me and I'll recount the tails.

Dang. I was thinking of going to Deluxe Food Market for lunch today. Wish I saw this before. Dragon's Claw!

Looks like gator. I had alligator once at a LA Cajun music festival. Dare I say it: it tasted like chicken. Chewy, slightly goat-frog-swampy chicken, but not bad. Given the large numbers of poodle-predating gators infesting the canals of Forida, I see no reason that Chinatown (If-It-Moves-Eat-It) should not take advantage of the bounty.

i'm not opposed to eating gator, but that photo is really shocking. i think that maybe because its still got its claws, etc., or the lighting, it looks more like a poster against wild animal poaching than a butcher photo. Like seeing a monkey paw for sale in africa or something.

I've had alligator stew once. The meat tasted like swamp.

I would bet that it's gator, not croc. Gator meat is really delicious. You'll eat a pig, for crying out loud! Why not a gator? I've had it fried, sauteed, and made into sausage. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

I want a glove like that. Ok, maybe it'll be an ill fit. Maybe a backpack. I love it!

my mom's pasta gravy, her chocolate cake, her stews, her chicken cacciatore, her italian fish stew, her fried morels.

Like Mel, my memory is stuffed cabbage--"prachas" (sp?--I've never seen it written)--made not by my own grandmother but by Grandma Schwartz, the grandmother of the kids across the street and the worst driver any of us had ever seen.

Not that any restaurant would make it, but "Depression Stew"...dating back to the...well, you get the picture. A can of Veg-All (scary stuff), a can of tomato sauce, ground beef, onions and seasonings on pasta or rice (with Parmesan cheese on top). Sounds terrible, but to this day I can't recreate it quite like mom made it.