Tastes like chicken

By Joe McAdory

Published: March 24, 2009

I ate python for lunch the other day. No, really. I’d never seen snake on a restaurant’s menu until I went to Clark’s Fish Camp south of Jacksonville, Fla., and I couldn’t help but wonder what in the world it tasted like.

And as you can imagine, it tasted like chicken. Doesn’t everything? The snake was kind of rubbery, so I guess it tasted like a rubber chicken. Unlike the snake pictured above, the one I ate was thoroughly cooked. Fried, in fact. I wouldn’t eat it any other way. I thought the place served rattlesnake, but it doesn’t anymore. That’s too bad. I’ve always wanted to bite back. I also had some alligator tail to complement my bizarre reptilian appetite.

Here’s the Web site to the restaurant: http://www.clarksfishcamp.com/ Check out the menu. I believe kangaroo is available too.