BBQ'ed Hippopotamus Anyone???

[indaswamp]

https://www.wbrz.com/news/colombia-proposes-shipping-invasive-hippos-to-india-mexico

Invasive species in Columbia. Illegally brought there by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980's......

 

[Coach JoeQB]

Probably tastes like bear. Greasy and stringy!

 

[indaswamp]

Probably tastes like bear. Greasy and stringy!

But you'd have a literal ton of meat! LOL!!

 

[DougE]

Not in my top ten, or even 100 of things to try, but I'd give it a shot.

 

[Coach JoeQB]

I wonder how big the smoker would have to be to get one ham in?

 

[yankee2bbq]

Big ol backstrap!

 

[Fueling Around]

I don't have enough freezer space for even a back strap.

Probably tastes like bear. Greasy and stringy!

?? Hippos are completely vegetarian as opposed to bear's diet.
I don't like bear either.

 

[Coach JoeQB]

Hmmmm, ok I'll try but I ain't butchering it.

 

[Jonok]

Had some back in the ‘70s when I had the chance to live in South Africa for a while. Sort of bland and stringy, but tender, had a fair amount of neutral fat, and not in any way offensive. I would bet a guy could smoke the heck out of one.
On the other hand, all of this hand wringing about what to do with the Columbian hippos is just stupid. They weren’t from there, and they’re not a benign species for a fragile ecosystem, so an appropriate euthenisation seems the best course.

 

[indaswamp]

They weren’t from there, and they’re not a benign species for a fragile ecosystem, so an appropriate euthenisation seems the best course.

Just turn 4 coonasses loose....problem solved! LOL!!

 

[Fueling Around]

...
On the other hand, all of this hand wringing about what to do with the Columbian hippos is just stupid. They weren’t from there, and they’re not a benign species for a fragile ecosystem, so an appropriate euthenisation seems the best course.

I wasn't going to go there but my thoughts are the same.
Inbred herd so not viable to release back to the wild.
They're more threatening than a threatened species at this point.

Just turn 4 coonasses loose....problem solved! LOL!!

Turn a lot more meat eaters loose. At up to 3 ton an animal there is a lot to go around.

 

[Coach JoeQB]

Love them coonasses, never met any more hostable people in my life. They could sure kill em skin em and cook em.

 

[DougE]

We don't have such an endearing term as "coonass" to refer to ourselves in these parts, but I'm we could make a good showing at such a hunt lol.

 

[Fueling Around]

Invite thirdeye and SmokinEdge down to harvest the tendergroins, too.

 

[Coach JoeQB]

In the 3 years after Katrina I spent about 8 months in Louisiana. First New Orleans, then Baton Rogue, and lastly Covington. If the weather wasn't so rotten in Summer I would have moved there.

Every place I went the people were incredible, and man did I eat good. When you got back into the Bayou there was always some kind of feast going on and we got invited in every time.

 

[cptnding]

Just turn 4 coonasses loose....problem solved! LOL!!

Hippopotamus Tasso. Hmmm.........

 

[SmokinEdge]

Invite thirdeye and SmokinEdge down to harvest the tendergroins, too.

Yeah buddy. I’ll bring the long knives. Lol

 

[chilerelleno]

Sign me up!

 

[Gonna Smoke]

an appropriate euthenisation seems the best course.

Yes and a lot of meat to feed the needy...

 

[daniels]

Probably tastes like bear. Greasy and stringy!

Are you sure it doesn't taste like chicken. I thought every meat tastes like chicken the first time. :)