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Arthur Morgan wastes a lot of meat
I know i dont understand why though , i mean we can see he takes meat due to the inventory filling up but there is still a whole bison on the ground that hasn't been gutted
@@JohnDoe-iw7zc Most likely gameplay and economy balance because if a player completely and realistically guts an animal, there would be a lot more meat for the player to cook and sell.
@@brudderudder Yeah but i really wish i could do somthing to like get Charles to come with me and we donate all the meat ? Idk that carcus on the ground just hurts me to seee
Or even just take 2 quarters of a bison in the places where small game would go , and you can only donate it for food giving you no reward other that karma , it would be a good roleplaying thing at least
Yep
What did the first person to eat a chicken say?"Tastes like lizard."
HAHAH!
Now that's damn funny
After that he said "It needs garlic."
That's an awesome joke! lol.
I am going to steal the heck out of that joke.
I grew up in the Midwest, where "rocky mountain oysters" came from unfortunate pigs. Later, in Colorado, I ate "prairie oysters", where buffalo contributed the meat. My wife said she'd never kiss me again if I ate them. They wuz good!!! (and she DID kiss me again).
I hear if you both eat them, it cancels out the whole smell. Oh, wait....that's garlic. Sorry.
Also, turkey fries.
She kissed you because your breath smelled like *nads.*
@@TooLooze Turkey fries? I've never heard of that one, Care to explain for me?
@@GIMMETHELOOT94 Testicles....
I had rocky mountain oysters at the big Texan. Wasn't no filet mignon, but it was pretty good fried food. Steak nuggets.
I wish I could say that about my experience.
@@ArizonaGhostriders ... I'm with you. I was active duty USMC 1971-76 and had to do the *biting the lizard's head off* routine but I have absolutely NO desire to eat any form of *Rocky Mountain Oysters.*
@@boatingman11 HA!
I live in Colorado, we sure do love our oysters!
@@snufflyelk9005 Yeehaw!
A Hunter since 10 year's old, the first thing we ate after skinning and hanging a deer was the liver + a generous amount of onion's fried in the same pan + green's usually spinach Or swiss chard and the heart sliced thin and dipped in Flour and fried usually it was mine because I liked it better than liver!
Thanks for posting!
Both good but I like the liver better especially if ya throw in some bacon lol
Eating everything is actually healthier than just eating the choice bits. There are vitamins and nutrients in everything.... Such as collagen, which we just do not in our diet today.
I'm sure. But the taste...
Calves foot jelly will get you some collagen.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Dont' worry! taste is good. (head cheese (편육)and pig skin(돼지 껍데기)have lot of collagen.)
It will take me a little while to digest this episode - but it was super informative! Great job!
I know, it's a tough one to swallow.
Ok so I’m a 22 year old female who lives in and has grown up in the rural Midwest and I like everything from frog legs, gator tail, chicken gizzards and livers, rabbit, squirrel, deer, etc etc
Cool!! I've had a lot of those, too.
Ive studied many plants that can be eaten, one of my favorites is lambs quarter.We canned about a bushel of it for winter. Lots of things to learn and much I was taught by my parents of critters that also could be eaten including roasted locusts.
At some point I'm going to do an episode on survival foods and edible plants, etc. Perhaps we can chat and I can get info from you on this?
I grew up eating beef tongue and I still love it - nothing like a good tongue sandwich!!!
I've yet to try it.
Oh Yeah! Tongue's delicious! When my neighbor and I had our heifer slaughtered a few months ago, I our butcher had never cut out a tongue before. I think he watched a KZhead video to learn how, lol.
I think once people realize that the part of tongue that is eaten is what is under the top layer. When it is cleaned up, just looks like a nice piece of beef.
Well, yeah, Huskerliving, but I like it all. I don't skin it -- just throw it in the crockpot overnight and chow down on it for breakfast. Yum!
Ha Ha, I think I would have a hard time with that myself. I would give it a try, but I think that top part would do me in.
Anyone else ever had squirrel brains ? It's the best part. Fried squirrel with gravy and biscuits. Thanks for the great video.
I've heard. Wonder how much you need to fill your belly, though?
We Love elk and beef tongue. My mom would eat pickled pigs feet. She'd keep the whole jar to herself. And we let her!
HA! Thanks for watching.
I use to see pickled pigs feet in jars in small beer bars, and I would pigs feet on sale at this rural country store. I could never really get up the enthusiasm to eat them. I guess the reason being I use to visit my uncles farm in Mercede Ca. every year and he had pigs. I could see where those trotters had been.
My parents were born during the Great Depression, so they ate anything and everything, brains beef tongue heart liver ... plus it was a family tradition to hunt so rabbits deer pheasants quail were a deliciously... us kids had to eat what mom made ... but there were things that were amazing like bacon drippings on popcorn,mush with butter and sugar then next day mom would slice up the left overs and fry it and put maple syrup on it. Big pan of fried turkey or chicken gizzards. And chicken wings my mom could get a ten pound sack for 1.00 as the chicken wing craze hadn’t started yet. Mom would render lard then fry the membrane and we had a bowl full of cracklins. Fresh side pork instead of bacon I think was better then bacon all crisp and tasted like a pork chop. We had money ... dad was a conductor for the rock island railroad then the great northern then the Union Pacific... he was making 80k a year in the late 70s. We only had a soda pop on Saturday night before we watched a late horror movie. Fresh made bread and biscuits we ate out if we were lucky 3-4 times a year pizza was like a royal treat at our home.
Tongue is great. Boiled until tender, cooled, skin the thing, and sliced thin. Don't knock it till you try it. And stewed ox tails are to die for if they seasoned well.
According to my mother. Her father made great squirrel dishes. Had quail. Ate pigeon in Egypt and have eaten wild Dove. Were not bad, but not great either, a lot of work for little meat.
Hard tack and salt pork, pemmican which is a desired taste was eaten. Wild game was abundant, soldiers at times ate horse meat but not by choice.
I looked up Pemmican and decided to make a video on "Old West Convenience Foods". Talk Pemmican, Jerky, tortillas....that sort of thing.
Sounds good.
Well done Ghostriders. Fried SPAM 'n Eggs in an iron skillet over a campfire is culinary nirvana. Greetings from Prescott.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) described her first experience making hoghead cheese all by herself. The smell of hot lard, and the sight of so much fresh meat, killed her taste for any of it.
Oh my funny and honest video....Definately sharing with the kids and hubby. Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome!
We grew up eating what was available and tried to grow veggies (often without success). The popularity of Mexican or Mexican inspired dishes on ranches guaranteed them a place in American cuisine. They were nutrition, easy to prepare, tasty and inexpensive for feeding a group of hands daily. Cookie's place in the ranch was equal to that of the foreman since hands needed to eat well. Old West food pre-railroad was often working with what you had and improvising definitely helped. Great video.
Pour enough gravy on that gray meat and you won't know it's turned!
As a Mexican, the tripes, brains, and tongues are among my favorite. Fish eyes, brains and tongues are especially good. We also call prickly pears *Tunas*
Hmmmm, cool info.
Mmmm eyeball 🫠
This channel is legendary, super informative and hilarious. Thank you guys! Im binge watching everything
Welcome aboard!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thank you, Keep up the great work!
My Grandfather was a Yaqui Medicine Man here in Southwest Arizona... He would skin Rattlesnakes and Grill The Meat... It wasn't bad.. I was 10 years old and he made it mixed with scrambled eggs in burritos...
Survival course in military we ate snake. Not horrible just no seasonings.
The old west taught humility but when I want a steak there is nothing that comes close. I can eat some homemade hot links and blood sausage at times too. A good cook is a good cook even in the old west.
I had a similar discussion at work. I've eaten a bunch of game meat in steak form, but none of them have that wonderful flavor or scent of cooking cow.
Love these videos keep up the awesome uploads!!
Thanks!
Another great video, Santee! I had no idea they ate some of that stuff. I don’t think I could have done it. LOL!
If you grew up and that's all you had....you'd a loved it.
Agree, you would not know anything different if you lived back then. Only now would you turn your nose away.
true!
I just found your channel and I enjoy it very much! I live in the Ozarks and I do replica woodworking and sign painting in the Old West style. I look forward to catching up on your previous videos, and will definitely be watching for new ones too!
Very cool about the signs. Thanks for watching!
My mom was Mexican and my dad from Texas. We weren’t poor, and we weren’t rich. We ate all this stuff all the time. A big treat was when my mom picked up TV dinners, 10 for a dollar. No body wants to know what’s in their Salisbury steak TV dinner but man were they good! 🙏
Thanks for the posting!
Gotta say y'all are pretty darn funny and entertaining- informational too. Great production value in your videos.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
Real life wild west: People ate horsemeat. Rdr2: Hey, you can't skin horses, but we have oleander for you! 🤣
LOL!
First time watching this. Growing up in the woods, venison, elk, our own vegetable garden. Plus the normal grocery store items. Good video.
That is awesome! Thanks much
They weren't vegetarians.
Way back when, at the end of annual training, some of our National Guard unit went out to dinner in Paso Robles, CA. One of the appetizers were these funny little breaded and deep fried things. We couldn't figure out what they were so we asked the waitress. She said "Gobble gonads. Or the last part of the turkey to go over the fence when he jumps."
AHAHAHAA!!! I love it. Not the gonads...the story.
Hi from Ohio Thank you for your work. I really liked this episode reminded me of my 96 yr old Grandma. After a squirrel hunt I brought her four for some squirrel stew. She was there eating something on a plate... squirrel brains she loved em.
must've been a small bite of food, but whatever made Grandma happy
I've grown upon a cattle ranch and spent most of my adult life on one and I can promise you "prairie oysters" are still commonly eaten by old school ranchers. I have never eaten them but I know plenty of guys who love them. Horse, cow, even wild game testicles are often eaten.
Yeah, that's where i ate 'em. Still very popular. So is Son Of A Gun Stew.
These are silly, yet informative! ^_^ Keep it up, Tucson!
"Moose and Squirrel"...LMAO. One of your best video insert jobs yet. Now I have to go re-watch "Big" and the Trinity movies.
HAHA! Glad you liked it.
Great vid Santee, learned a lot thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
my mom grew up on a farm in the 1930s.came home from school one day and she had me help her prepare chitlins.(pig intestines) said it was part of my heritage and i needed to know such things.fried them up and they tasted good once you got past the smell,which was gosh awful.kitchen smelled like an outhouse.by the way,what they call soul food up north is nothing but southern food.good video,as always.
Ugh!
Chitlins are one of the few foods I cant do lol you all can have at them more power to ya
IF it smells, it wasn't prepared correctly. Got to soak it for awhile & no smell.
Red River hot links contain beef tongue, beef heart, beef tripe, saliva glands and some nasty stuff as well. ^^ Just because ist's all ground up it doesn't mean that it's not there. A cow is a lot more than two filets and a couple of steaks. The one thing as a German I haven't figured are buffalo hot wings and why people are attracted to a place called "maccharoni grille", lol
LOL!
I grew up eating everything from the snout to the tail. I made sure my 3 sons also learned where their food came from. Many times when I got home from school I asked, "Whats's for supper?" and the answer would be, "Whatever you go kill or catch. Otherwise it's vegetables and grits." THAT made every shot count.
Yes, I bet it did!
What a fun video. Thanks for posting.
Much appreciated.
Thanks for being an inspiration to me. I am now a british tart dressing up daily as a western cow poker. I love your channel so please, do keep it up.
I’m really glad I found this channel.
Great video and very informative. I just shake my head and say, " damn, frontier life was rough."
Eric, to them it was just normal. You type rough because we are too spoiled in today's world. They knew nothing of what was to become.
Huskerliving I should've put a smiley face after my comment. I know that they KNEW that was all that was available. I was being more sarcastic and a joker. If I were to time travel, or resources became similar to that of the old west, I'd do like I said in a previous comment I made. Good day. 😊
Thank you for answering my questiom in the mail bag. Much appreciated.
You're welcome!
“Boy you’re quick”🤣🤣🤣
ha!
LOL Thank you for ending my donut cravings! Loved it!
My pleasure.
Great video. The Dirty Dan skit was brilliant. Thanks Santee
Thanks! Hope he reads this, he's so proud of that pig prop.
That pesky fly kept flying around my ear!!! Great effect Santee. thanks.
You're welcome!
"I'm going to do an episode on survival foods and edible plants" Well get on it, Santee! I'm ready!
Ok!
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Hi our awesome friend yes omelette are very popular in the U.K. thanks for sharing your awesome video we got ya always we have smashed your likeee button awesome food 🥘
2:47min. Bud and Terence best restaurant scene 😂👍🏼
They were great together.
Nice to see you and the ghost getting along for a change.
I think I amuse him. Like a child's play toy.
I love this channel all the way from Australia.
Thank you so much!
👍👍👍😎☕ well I was just thinking about fixing breakfast but I think I will wait a little bit now. LOL
Sorry....!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I really enjoy your videos
Thanks! Now go get some scrambled eggs with brains! Ewwwww.....
Cornbread u don't like nuts
Arizona Ghostriders or nuts
Lol first video I seen of you guys and you guys are funny and down to the point
Thank you!
How neat!! New subscriber here! 🤠
Thanks!
Loved how you all did this video..😍💚
Much appreciated!
Great vid! Making me hungry now. I am a Southern country boy and grew up eating most of what you showed. Brings back good memories. I also love Spam and hate anchovies.
We could eat together then!
Love the 'Big' clips 😆
Much appreciated.
Keep'em coming guys. Ya'll are great. =)
Thank you very much!
There's nothing better than Mr.Pearson's beef stew. Trust me.
HA! OK.
Outstanding great video! Taste like chicken!😂😂😂. 👍🏾😀❤️🇺🇸
HAHA! Thank you.
I miss mr. Pearson
I'm excitedly happy that this channel exists! This channel was suggested in a Red Dead Online forum and here I am. When i not playing video games, I love to cook. Do you have recipes for these cuisines? I've liked, subscribed and "belled" y'all. Thanks for all y'all do. *tips hat*
I will come up with some recipes soon. I also suggest subscribing to Kent Rollins. He is a chuckwagon cook and the real deal.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Copy that, Ghostriders. I'll go have a look.
Its finally saturday! Glad to start the day off with the Arizona Ghostriders. There is no way! No way i would eat the man parts of any animal no matter it tasted like lol. Look forward to next weeks video. Hope all is well your way
@@ArizonaGhostriders hahaha ok ok!
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My dad said that when they slaughtered the hog they used the pig's tail to grease the pan for frying eggs.
Yup we still eat like this please I invite you down to my place in California to tryout our cooking we slaughter our own animals and still make some of these foods you'll like the prickly pear salsa!!!!!
Be careful not many people over in California take kindly to people that eat meat.
ha ha ha !!!! Fun vid guys, thanks so much ! I was tricked into eating "rocky mountain oysters" as a teen... my parents knew I would eat anything that was breaded !!! ( don't ask what happened when they breaded some Hungarian blood sausage.... I think I can still taste it !!! :-)
Ewwww!
That prince Albert pipe tobacco painted wall made by day! Great video santee
That poor guy is stuck in a can all day. The least they could do was make a wall advertisement for him!
Suddenly I lost my appetite ! Another excellent informative video
HA! Glad you liked it.
Nothin like a prickly pear margarita! I’ve had more than my share and still lookin for more!
When I was a kid, I was told that puffball mushrooms were edible but was too scared to try them. Guess I was wrong.
I wonder what they taste like.
Every mushroom is edible at least once.
Dad said brains and eggs was a staple growing up in LA. Lower Alabama.
I've heard as much from others. Not sure how I feel about them. Probably try it though.
Your dad knows good food
You went easy on your friends using mouse traps rather than bear traps.
Well, I tried, but there wan't enough room in the pig for a bear trap.
Stay away from my gosh darn Donuts
LOL!
The Lewis and Clark expedition consumed massive amounts of meat and little else. This amounted to starving their bodies for necessary nutrients and they suffered accordingly. I think birds, rabbits, potatoes, beans, apples and biscuits were a more common fare for smaller smaller traveling parties. Meat from large animals for the most part, was most likely consumed rapidly by larger parties due to lack of a means of preservation. Salting and tinning was employed of course by the permanent settlements.This is how we ate when I grew up on a backwards farm in the 50s. We used horses and probably didn't live much different than they did 70 years previous.😊
Preserving was the deal then. Easier in the later part of the century due to so many canned items that traveled well.
This video makes me so happy!! :D
Good! Now, grab a slice of sidewinder and get to eatin'!
Hey Santee, could you do a video on old west musical instruments ? Thanks, Kyle Great video as always!
Thank you and yes I can!
I jumped at the mousetraps because I thought the pig's chest was gonna eat their hands like the defibrillator scene in The Thing
I'm from South Carolina and I grew up eating a lot of poor people southern food . My great uncle loved scrambled eggs and pig brains with biscuits and gravy . We still eat livermush , which is pig liver , pig offal , and cornmeal seasoned with sage . The heart is my favorite part of a cow , makes good fajitas and Chinese stir fry . Beef heart is like filet mignon but firmer . I also like fried beef or pork liver and onions , but prefer beef kidneys . My great grandma used to cook up a mean mess of poke sallet during the spring and summer . My favorite meat in tacos and burritos is cabeza (head) , second favorite is lengua (tongue) . I've eaten my share of wild game . Deer is dry and has little fat , bear is rich and greasy , wild turkey is dry and stringy , so is squirrel , rabbit is delicious . I had gator tail once , it was good , real good . Frog legs don't taste like chicken , theyre more like catfish on chicken wing bones . I love frog legs . Snake meat is similar to.trout . I ate a kangaroo and beef burger in Australia a couple of times , that was tasty . The dog ribs I ate in Korea were like baby back ribs from a suckling pig but a bit less meaty . When I was stationed in Japan I ate some ocean critters that I couldn't identify , but they were tasty . I especially liked unagi (eel) , and a mackerel type of fish called kohada . In Southeast Asia I ate a fruit called durian . It looks like a hedgehog made babies with a football . It smells like an outhouse , but tastes like caramelized onions and vanilla pudding .
"It looks like a hedgehog made babies with a football" -HA! Yeah, I tried it. Not my thing. Thanks for the great comment!
Victor Waddell I bet you could go toe to toe with Andrew Zimmern from bizarre foods.
Calling domino’s pizza 🍕 is like calling a Prius a sports car.
That is a correct and funny statement.
Arizona Ghostriders i from nj. Everything here is terrible. Only thing I’d miss if i left would be the amazing italian food and pork roll.
Calf fries have a nutty flavor
HAHAHA!
I enjoyed watching this video!
Thank you!
Mountain oysters when battered in corn flake batter and served with shrimp cocktail sauce are delicious. Seriously good. Very tender, like filet mignon, but delicious anyway.
I don't doubt it. The ones I've eaten are tender...just don't love the taste.
Probably the one and only time Santee and Bill were in agreement, and joined forces. Kinda disappointed Bill didn't actually shoot the neo-hippie.
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I love the comments on this topic. There was a Cajun restaurant in Rolla MO about 20 years ago called Papa Meaux. They had a pet alligator. My daughter and I tried the alligator nuggets - yummy. Daughter carried some home to her husband, who was from Poland. She handed him the foam container and said “It’s alligator”! The poor man immediately tossed it in the air, shuddered and ran to another room. She very happily ate them!
Thanks for sharing! I've tried alligator tail. Not bad.
Arizona Ghostriders this especially funny because his mom made moldy rye bread soup and moldy beet soup saying they were full of nutrients. Maybe they were but I’ll pass.
Thanks for the great videos. The rule really was..you ate what you had. The West was not the place to be picky Ranch food, both simple to prepare and tasty, was a major influence.
Right. You ate to live...
Hii my friend this was a tasty combination of things I've heard off and many I havent lol
Some I would try....but not if there was a burger around!
@@ArizonaGhostriders +lol totally..ive tried offal it's a normal farm meal here lol as we are a majority farming country
I am a fan of strange foods. I'm up for pretty much anything. Harsh with that delivery guy.... Haha
Hahah!
LOL stay away from my donuts! I would go hungry in the old west :)
Heheh! Maybe...but there'd be something good to eat somewhere.
+Arizona Ghostriders I grew up on a farm in Texas, and we had cattle. When we had a calf-cutting, we also battered and fried them. But, they were called calf-fries around my house. Served with a dip made out of mayo, mustard, hot sauce, and dill pickle relish. Sounds nasty, but they were tasty. I'll be the first to admit it though. What we didn't sell at auction, we sent to the processor. So, we didn't eat a lot of organ meat. But, we did make tacos with the cheek meat and the tongues. The pigs were sent to the processor too. But, we slaughtered the chickens ourselves. The 70s were a much different time than now. My kids always want McDonald's or Taco Bell. (but they don't always get it) It's a shame, really.
That's fascinating. Thank you for sharing that family history.
Hey Santee, great video, just like always!! Could you do a video on old west shirts, and pants, specifying things like tunics, drover shirts, gambler shirts, also pants like the frontier, highland, leadville, etc. I'll tune in this Saturday for your next and latest installment of fun, comedy, and above all History!! Have a wonderful day, and week, sincerely, Morgan Earp.
Thanks much, Morgan! I'll put your request on the list.
H iMr Earp any relation to Wyatt Earp ???? you talking about pants ok my grand father went to the Klondike Gold Rush .. he got back having shot a few guys ... scared shit when ever a knock came on the door he would vanish up them stairs like a rat up a drain pipe saying "i ain't here " OK But he came home with pants made from tent canvas as was Levi Strauss's pants because ordinary cotton/wool pants didn't last more than a week Also around this time cowboys miners had money in their pockets so as you can imagine every thing was expensive old west rip-off ........Ed
I hear Barry Manilow loves Rocky Mountain oysters
Wouldn't doubt it.
Didn't look bad but I couldn't eat Mr. Ed except in an emergency. I've heard horse is very good though. My uncle ordered calf brains in restaurants a lot. Another great one!
Thank you. Calf brains in restaurants? Never had the...uh...pleasure.
Oscar, Oscar... Not that kind of Oscar!... I thought I saw Oscar in the video... anywho... great video and always fun... Today is Saturday.... yay..
Thanks for watching!
The oddest thing I ever ate was gator, it was during a vacation day with my family down in Florida. It was really good and I would love to have more someday
I had gator tail on a stick. Wasn't bad at all.
He gotcha! Pig feast! Tripe, Menudo... oh and Haggis... yummy. Think I'll rethink breakfast now... good video guys.
Yeah...I had to have a piece of white bread just to cleanse my thoughts while making the video.
who's here after red dead redemption 2?
dances with wolves is a great movie
Deer not dear sorry spell check got me