Frog Legs and Python Meat Pizza
(Photo: Evan Daniell)
It’s called the Everglades Pie. Evan Daniell, the owner of Evan’s Neighborhood Pizza in Fort Myers, Florida, invented it. The Everglades Pie is a mixture of many creatures from that swamp: hog, frog legs, python and swamp cabbage.
He devised the recipe about 2 years ago after pythons, an invasive species in Florida, became prolific. It’s his way of culling the population. It costs $45 for a 14-inch pizza, largely because python meat costs about $66 a pound. So far, about 150 people have purchased it at his restaurant.
-via Ian Chant
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Fishy chicken. I like them a lot, but too expensive.
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I've had frog legs. They tasted like fish.
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I was wondering where Eric Idle had gotten to.
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Swamp cabbage is just heart of palm. I don't know how common that name is outside of the southeast of the US.
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Snake meat tastes quite a bit like frogs legs. Too much trouble to pick it out of the bones for regular fare, but tasty enough if someone else prepares it.
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