Terrapin or box turtle, whichever you would like to call it. Pack the entire animal in mud and roast it in the hot coals of a fire for about an hour, turning with two sticks periodically. Picky eating but the meat wasn’t bad. Eaten crawfish I’ve caught out of a creek, Not as large as those down south but tasty none the less. Cooked up Timber Rattler I’ve dispatched, breaded and deep fried. Not much meat except along both sides of the backbone. All the rest is mostly ribs. Then there’s ants, both red and black ants. The trick is to bite the heads first so your tongue won’t gat bitten. They have a burst of flavor that has a sweet intenseness to it. Takes a lot of them, of course. Wouldn’t try it with fire ants, though!
