Eat more nutria

Nutria, as one might NOT expect, is nutritious, and there are recipes for gourmet nutria dinners.

Can't beat 'em, eat 'em Nutria page


Ragondin à l’Orange sounds pretty good. (Ragondin is the French word for nutria.)

Now, if you are unfamiliar with nutria, it might be surprising that I am commenting on recipes for a particular animal.  But there's a reason for this.  Nutria, you see, may be nutritious, but they don't look tasty.   That's because they look like 14-pound rats:

Another reason to eat nutria is that catching nutria in Louisiana is now more profitable.  The bounty on individual nutria went up from $5 to $6.   So now you can catch a dozen nutria, cash them in, throw them on the grill for a good home-cooked meal, and then have enough money in the pocket to eat dinner out the next night.

Which might be a tempting prospect after that gourmet nutria dish.