Life is good at the top of the food chain. If you really wanted to (and don’t mind the risk of being mauled or thrown in jail), you could eat basically any other animal in existence. Heck, we’ve even figured out how to eat toxic animals, like puffer fish. But contrary to what you might have heard, they don’t all taste like chicken. We did some research, and learned what five exotic animals actually taste like when cooked properly.“Rattlesnake tastes, when breaded and fried, like a sinewy, half-starved tilapia,” according to The New York Times. Called “desert whitefish” in the Southwest, it’s reportedly “bland and difficult to eat,” tough, sinewy, and full of little bones. There’s very little in the way of actual flavor.
