my son is dating a woman from brazil and i got to meet her on superbowl sunday. we were discussing our backgrounds and i shared how my family was raised on all types of fish and game. most of my food has come out of a tree or a ditch . she casually asked if i like lizzard. come again i think was my responce. not quite sure i understood her she showed me a pic on her phone of some type of iguana bout 3 feet long and said you like? she likes. so now when i am cooking something at home i ask the wife" how you want your lizzard !!!

Tastes like chicken?.

In Central America, they call iguanas “tree chickens”.

Lol

If you want to surprise her with a meal from back home, you can purchase frozen iguanas out of Florida, fairly cheaply. We ate iguana for New Years Day a few years ago. It was okay, fairly chicken like.

Most of the iguanas harvested in Florida are shipped to Central and South America.

Keith

The other white meat…

i would love to do something like that! the rest of my kids would just sh-t! they dont trust anything in a crockpot with bbq sauce! i worked at our local school as the maintenence guy and whenever the teachers would have some potluck thing i would always offer to bring a dish. all would politely decline and say "we have plenty". but at the end of the year when i cooked fish and chicken for the whole district there was a very long line!!!

Probably not different than alligator.

Just No

Oh yeah!, I'd try it...how would you cook one of those things?

We grilled iguana, roasted iguana and made some iguana carpaccio. I liked iguana grilled best.

Keith

Like,,,,,,,

"You can eat 'em, but they taste like ....!" Mick Dundee

Yes, the iguanas I had when stationed on the island of Guam tasted like chicken to me.

Chickens are descendants of dinosaurs. So are lizards. Why wouldn't they taste like chicken. Lizards probably don't eat their own poo like chickens do.

If they taste like chicken gumbo w andouille sausage would be just right

A guy from Honduras that used to help me with tile told me iguanas and whatever fruit they found in the jungle is all they ate growing up

this is getting to be a sport


or you wait for the coldest day of the year down to about 30 and they fall out of the trees and people pick them up sometimes by the truck bed worth.

And the fruit bats on Guam also taste like chicken, but different than the iguana.

I know fruit bats get big. How much meat was on them? Do you just eat the legs? Do they have a big enough loin to eat?

I would like to eat a fruit bat.

Keith