Pangolin animal do not touch or eat

[cookiedough]

besides bats carrying the coronavirus gene they say this Pangolin animal widely eaten and used for medicine purposes in China could have mutated into the gene once found in bats to spread to humans, but unconfirmed as 100% positive at this point.    Does China eat and use bats?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-no-evidence-coronavirus-jumped-pangolin-people

who would want to eat such a critter?   Maybe once cooked it tastes like chicken?   ???

[Farside]

Intereresting critter. Kinda like that critter I have around here that I'm tring to shoot as it is ruining my yard.    The o'l Armadillo of the south, some folks eat'em I have no desire at this time to make a meal out of them. 

[Valkorado]

The scales are kinda crunchy, but not bad!

[3fan4life]

Intereresting critter. Kinda like that critter I have around here that I'm tring to shoot as it is ruining my yard.    The o'l Armadillo of the south, some folks eat'em I have no desire at this time to make a meal out of them. 

It does look a lot like an Armadillo.

Lots of folks in the south eat possum.

I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat one.

I've heard Armadillos described as Possum on a Half Shell.

[Moonshot_1]

Understand they are pretty tasty after you boil them in Corona beer. Have to skim off the viruses though.

[..]

From 1938. I don't think much has changed.

"The animal itself is eaten, but a greater danger arises from the belief that the scales have medicinal value. Fresh scales are never used, but dried scales are roasted, ashed, cooked in oil, butter, vinegar, boy's urine, or roasted with earth or oyster-shells, to cure a variety of ills. Amongst these are excessive nervousness and hysterical crying in children, women possessed by devils and ogres, malarial fever and deafness. '

[The emperor has no clothes]

From 1938. I don't think much has changed.

"The animal itself is eaten, but a greater danger arises from the belief that the scales have medicinal value. Fresh scales are never used, but dried scales are roasted, ashed, cooked in oil, butter, vinegar, boy's urine, or roasted with earth or oyster-shells, to cure a variety of ills. Amongst these are excessive nervousness and hysterical crying in children, women possessed by devils and ogres, malarial fever and deafness. '

dang, where can I get some of those scales ? Sounds like they'd cure just about anything. (I'll skip the boy's urine method though)

[da prez]

  We were in China in 2004 just after the bird flu outbreak.  At the market you could find everything you would never think of eating.  Their saying was , if it creeps ,crawls ,swims or flies , its food.  I ate a lot of strange to me meals and I am here to tell of it.
  At one stall women were gutting eels and putting the gut pile on a board for people to eat, some still moving or the heart beating. I have eaten a lot of what Americans would call strange.   

                                                 da prez

[old2soon]

Intereresting critter. Kinda like that critter I have around here that I'm tring to shoot as it is ruining my yard.    The o'l Armadillo of the south, some folks eat'em I have no desire at this time to make a meal out of them. 

      When I lived in East Texas-Garrison-the old folks called armadillos Hoover Hogs. Maybe some resident Texans can enlighten the rest of us? RIDE SAFE.

[Challenger]

Intereresting critter. Kinda like that critter I have around here that I'm tring to shoot as it is ruining my yard.    The o'l Armadillo of the south, some folks eat'em I have no desire at this time to make a meal out of them. 

      When I lived in East Texas-Garrison-the old folks called armadillos Hoover Hogs. Maybe some resident Texans can enlighten the rest of us? RIDE SAFE.

The Great Depression saw the collapse of the United States' economy, rampant unemployment. At that time, President Herbert Hoover increasingly became, in the eyes of many Americans, a grim and inept leader. In turn, a new lexicon came into being -- words like "Hoovervilles," "Hoover blankets" and "Hoover hogs."

[9Ball]

Armadillos can carry rabies and salmonella...something to consider.

I also spent a month in China and Tibet and we ate a lot of insects and questionable other animals.  For me the best food was in Tibet.  Lots of fresh grain, eggs, fantastic barley bread and yak butter.  Yak butter left a very tallow taste but at least it was fresh.  In China when a fried chicken was served on a lazy Susan it was whole, head, eyeballs, crown and waddle and feet.  The women in my group wouldn’t touch it until I removed the offending parts.  The feet were actually not too bad.

I had the same market experience regarding the eels.  They would slap the head on a nail and skin and gut the thing in one stroke.  Saw quite a few snakes still wiggling after cleaning.

They took us to government run stores.  They were mostly 4 story with different products on each level.  I remember on the second floor of one store they had just clothing, including furs.  There was one fairly large rack with orange-ish fur coats...the label said ‘Housecat’.  I made sure to show this to a few guys in or group and we got a laugh.  I’m sure the cats were eaten.

The busses coming into the city had chickens and ducks hunkering down on the roof of the bus without being caged.  It was a sight to see them surfing into town.

[Jess from VA]

Nine-banded Armadillos are also known to carry the bacterium of leprosy (Hanson's disease).

You would think this would rule them out as house pets and food.

I am not a real picky eater, but I am never eating anything discussed in this thread. 

I'm not even sitting at a table with it present.

I'd rather be assaulted by Chinese troops than Chinese food.  (not counting Chinese American fried rice with beef, shrimp and chicken... yummy)

If stuff called food is wiggling off the table, by all means let it go.  The dog can probably handle it, but if he passes on it, you probably should too.

[Valkorado]

I'd rather be assaulted by Chinese troops than Chinese food.

 

[cookiedough]

Me too,  I will pass on all of that stuff for sure.  FEAR FACTOR TV show and me would not get along would never eat cockroaches or bugs of any kind or cow eyeballs, etc.   I have a very weak and tame stomach cannot even handle spicy foods much at all.  NO peppers, hot sauces, etc. no way can I even handle those. 

did not know about armidillos having all those chances of diseases so would pass on those as well even if totally skinned and cooked very well.    Heck,  I do not even like goose meat..

That Pangolin does look a lot like an armidillo though but they say the size of a house cat.

One thing is for sure,  a lot of folks on this board have traveled the world overseas a ton more than me have no desire to go to China, etc.   ONLY place been out of the United States is Canada twice in my life and once into Nogales Mexico just south of Tucson AZ visiting in-laws in the 1990s once in Tucson.  Was sketchy going into Mexico way back then even an illegal jumped the gate and the border patrol guy let the German Shephard loose the guy ran literally right next to me coming right at me and the German Shepherd hot on his tale and tackled the guy ripping him to shreds right before the guys put him in handcuffs and I was like,  are we sure we want to go into Mexico just to get Vanilla and a few other trinkets? 

[CoreyP]

The Chinese will eat just about anything, communism works baby. Have to realize until recently the whole country was very poor.  There are still a huge amount of dirt poor people who will just about anything they can gets their hands on.

For that matter where I live we eat soft shells crabs, which have to be alive when you cook them or you poison yourself. You literally cut their face off, batter them and drop them in a fryer whole. Oysters, clams etc. all have to be alive when you cook them.

[9Ball]

When I was in China one of our Chinese government chaperones (disguised as a tour guide) told us that nearly 35 million Chinese still live in caves.  Not sure about the veracity of that statistic but the average income was approximately $30/month per family.  I’m sure that has changed since my visit.  The cities were choking with air pollution and I was glad I brought along a supply of allergy products.  There were many more bicycles than cars and I can’t imagine how much worse it has gotten.  Another observation was the majority of the population that I saw were cigarette smokers.  Seems like the tobacco companies found another group to buy their products since many Americans have quit smoking, including me 35 years ago this past February.

It was an eye opening trip and made me appreciate what we take for granted.