We have croc meat topped pizza. Glad we don't have rat or bugs

@eschatologyguy those people down there eat everything and most are available at roadside stands

they eat snapping turtles, possums, muskrats...you name it.....

they had a running joke that their crayfish was going to be a bumper crop after Hurricane Katrina

@Weltansicht The things I prefer not to eat I don't knock too much. It might end up eating my words. They did turn tumbleweed into a belly filler during the great depression.

@eschatologyguy Quite true on all accounts. They also made a Corn Cob jelly/jam. And a pokeweed salad that is toxic if you don't know how to prepare it.

Here where I live, there have been 3 or 4 waves of total decimation of food, over the last 150-180 years, and that's counting the Dust Bowl days with the depression. They took out the water buffalo, that I have NEVER seen a picture of, just drawings. Elk got reintroduced too, now there's special permit hunting on them. Arkansas use to be called the Bear State, but there is limited hunting on them too.

They took out the Carolina parakeet, as it was apparently very easy to harvest. The ivory billed woodpecker was thought to be extinct but a few managed to survive. The rivers were full of hellbenders, a very large salamander like creature. Some species of catfish were also nearly wiped out. It's rare to see an alligator gar and they were a very large fish, just little ones anymore. Not to mention the river clams & mussels over harvested too.

@Weltansicht Maybe that's what got the Thai and the Vietnamese to take a second look at rats, spiders and bugs. Not so much here on the islands. Although there are a few who fancy bats and snakes.