it lacks much flavor and is somewhat like chicken in that department, but the meat has a weird greasy, slimey, oily texture thing to it that really puts me off.

That being said, if you get the opportunity to try alligator, treat yo' self. Fried alligator bites > chicken wings.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago

Like many ingredients its more about preparing them right.

Its been 10 years ago since the Chinese restaurant my family liked was closed. We still talk about how absolutely amazing the frog legs where. Sometimes when eating asian we may even get triggered of a specific taste we recognize as must have been included with the frog legs.

Lots of garlic, umami and spring onion were pretty sure off but there not enough to recreate that disg.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Alligator is really underrated, absolutely delicious.

[–] Sixner@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Really?? I tried it twice in FL.. one touristy place, one locals place. Both times I hated the texture. Tough.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Just tasted like fish to me.

[–] JamesBean@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Got almost the opposite experience here. Liked frog legs almost as much as chicken, but found both alligator meat and alligator jerky offputtingly fishy.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Sichuan frogs legs are amazing.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Have had both frog and alligator. Honestly, both taste essentially like chicken.