Beats a slice of kebab shop pizza.
Texan hillbillies are swapping steak for snake.
As the sun beats down harder than a
perv watching YouPorn, deep in Sweetwater,
Texas, some of nature’s deadliest bastards are emerging from their dens in droves – not bollard-wielding bikies, but rattlesnakes.
After months of hibernation, these turds are feisty, which spells trouble for anyone unlucky enough to get near their bloodthirsty fangs.
But while most sane
punters would steer well clear of the slithering suckers, in Sweetwater, the local rednecks have other plans – hunt, capture, slaughter, then eat them, despite the objections of snake-loving environmentalists.
Even the grommets wrap their laughing gear around rattlers. “It tastes like chicken,” explains six-year-old Will Foster, waving around a chunk of fried rattlesnake meat at the town’s annual Rattlesnake Round-up.
In these parts, the most
dangerous fangs are those of the Cascaval of South America. A whopping 75 per cent of people bitten by one die of asphyxiation.
“They’ll bite you and deliver a world of hurt given half the chance,” explains a local. “When's the last time you heard of a chicken doing that? I say give the chickens a break and let’s eat some snake.”
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