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Originally Posted by [dfo]
You've eaten gopher tortoise? I'm guessing this was a little while back, hows it taste?
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gopher turtle yes it is the best! delicious!
and yes this is about 1980'ish
I was in highschool and packed fern after school along with a few older black dudes.
They had a wooden pole with a long flexible steel rod about 3/8 ths inch in diameter and they would bend a hook in the end about 2 inches.
They then would feed the rod down in the gopher hole and hook him under the shell. Lots of rattlesnakes in those holes also. (they live together)
softshell and alligator turtle is also good.
had it in a stew and battered and deep fried cooked by older country black mommas
they are endangered now, but not from people hunting them but from man in general inhabiting their space