What does Penguin taste like?
Has anyone gone to Antarctica and eaten a Penguin…? If so what would it taste like?
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I would imagine it would taste a lot like penguin.
Or like Burgess Meredith.
I could never eat a penguin! They are my favorite animal.
Chicken, before anyone else says it
@erichw1504 what if you ran out of food and were starving
A lovely chocolate biscuit. In Britain anyway.“If you feel a little p peckish p p p pick up a penguin” So goes the advertisment jingle.
More like goose than chicken, I would guess. But more oily than goose and with a sort of metallic flavor that comes from eating a lot of fish. I imagine the texture would be somewhat stringy and quite tough. Not something you’d really want to eat unless you had a lot of time to chew.
At least, that’s what the one I stole from the zoo tasted like.
…like another reason I don’t eat meat.
@talljasperman Dammit, did you have to ask me that? Of course I would have to eat one.
@AstroChuck Ah, Burgess Meredith. May he rest in peace. I read an interview with him a long time ago, and he was lamenting the fact that, while he had many serious roles, he was best remembered for the Penguin!
A dish fit for an emperor,possibly.
I’d say more like a bird, since afterall, it is a flightless bird.
Emu is pretty good. Its a dark meat with a nice juicy texture.
@Yetanotheruser Poor little creatures. They look terrified of that python bearing down on them.
BBQd, fried or raw like sushi?
Actually, they do “fly” through the water, rather than air.
Do you mean they can’t fly? Another shattered belief.
@erichw1504 This is what I was actually trying to find when I put in my previous link. The motions they use in their underwater “flight” are actually the same motions other birds use during air flight. They flap to rise, they glide, they even dive bomb. . Around 34 seconds into the video,there are some underwater shots which illustrate this very well.
@talljasperman so its off to the slow cookers then…maybe it will be the secret ingrediant in “Iron Chef”
@erichw1504, You can call it swimming. It looks like flying to me
Flying underwater is most definitely swimming.
Turtles also appear to be flying underwater. They are incredibly graceful and quite fast, but they are swimming, nonetheless.
Hmm.. It would probably taste a lot like a…umm..i don’t know.. PENGUIN! Duh!
@buckyboy28 Yo Adrienne!
Actually, my favorite Meredith role is actually Henry Bemis, the bookworm in the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. “It’s not fair!!!
Gotta love it.
@Dr_Dredd I love that episode too… they even made a spoof on Family guy….in which Peter gets so drunk that there is only one brain cell left and it breaks its glasses in the library
Burgess Meredith had several wonderful Twilight Zone appearences, but I remember him best as George in “Of Mice And Men”. Lon Chaney played Lenny. Scary good.
I resent this question! You are all a bunch of birdists for even being willing to discuss it! I may have to leave Fluther over this. (sob)
@janbb Just because you’re not much taller than a penguin doesn’t mean you always have to take their side.
This so bad you’re going to lose the small amount of respect you had for me. There’s more than one way to eat a penguin.
Sorry, that just popped into my sick mind. If I let them accumulate instead of letting them out my brain would blow up at some point.
It’s fine – kind of tickled my feathers.
on no. Another one. I wonder what that kind of penguin tastes like. Fishy?
Should I apologize to the mods now or later?
@Adirondackwannabe You have to decide if you want to be a bad guy or an old softie. I think you’re getting your knickers into too much of a twist here.
By the way, to answer the question – I have read accounts of explorers like Scott and Shackleton whose men were forced to eat penguins to survive. By all reports, they were greasy and not very tasty. Be warned.
I’m bad enough to have those thoughts and an old softie enough to know there are kids on that shouldn’t be exposed to my bad side. And they’re boxers, not knickers.
@janbb The penguins or the explorers?
The explorers of course! Tasted like old shoe leather and whale oil!
Maybe they need a nice™ long, slow braising in a good sauce.
The explorers? Red wine or a dry white to braise them with?
It would depend on the side dishes.
How about some fava beans and a nice chianti?
excellent choice. And invite a few friends.
@talljasperman- Bite your tongue. There is only one Penguin and that’s Burgess Meredith. Just as there was only one Catwoman and that was Lee Meriwether.
Of course Halle Berry sure was hot.
Michelle Pfiffer was very hot
Julie Newmar is the one true Catwoman.
Just what does Catwoman have to do with cooking explorers??
I cooked my Explorer last summer and it stopped running! It’s just sitting in my driveway like a homeless shelter.
@janbb I have no idea, but I’m winging it. :)
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