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Some say Northeastern frat's annual alligator BBQ is a real crock
By adamg on Fri, 10/13/2023 - 4:19pm
The Huntington News reports on the controversy over Delta Kappa Epsilon's annual alligator roast, which the boys decided to hold this year on campus instead of at their Mission Hill house. In addition to an alligator on a spit, the event featured a severed alligator head on a chair. Naturally, you want to slow roast your gator, so the brothers turned the thing on the spit for some eight hours.
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I hear it
Tastes like chicken
But
With a fish like texture…. At least the time I have had it (fried)
the truth is
...everything tastes like dinosaur
And that
alligators are more closely related to chickens than they are to lizards.
Birds and Crocodiles!
The last of the dinosaurs.
Note: I am loosely referring to all members of the order Crocodilia, which includes alligators and caimans, as crocodiles.
It tastes like chicken
in that it doesn't taste like much, and is chewy and bland, as chicken often is.
Admittedly I have only had it in gumbo. Even the okra was more flavorful.
Ça c'est bon!
Ça c'est bon!
Grow up kids
The world isn’t a safe space.
Like seriously. “ It’s a very blatant open display of violence.”
Go bite a pillow.
Casa de pedro used to Serve Gator I think
Casa de pedro in Watertown I believe used to serve alligator, he closed a few years ahmgo so I can't find the menu. Pedro , the owner was a real character!
S. D. E.
S. D. E.
better on campus, than in the
better on campus, than in the neighborhood.
How did it die? Like cattle,
How did it die? Like cattle, pigs, goats, roosters, and abused dogs and cats? Then I believe Massachusetts has laws.
Celebrating decapitation?
Roasting an alligator instead of a pig or cow doesn't necessarily have much distinction. It sounds gross but is there any ethical or moral difference between alligator flesh or the flesh of pigs, cows and sheep? While spending the money to bring up an alligator sounds like a bizarre rite, it's a hard case to make for condemnation of buying an alligator versus buying a pig for a roast.
But displaying the head of the creature at the roast? Displaying a decapitated head as some kind of celebratory rite is grotesque and disgusting.
obviously
you won't be pledging Delta Kappa. "We put the Delta in De-Capitate". Go have a smoothie, or perhaps some frozen yogurt with a glass of birch beer.
Display
There is a festivity and spectacle to a whole baked salmon, or grilled mackerel, not to mention a roast suckling pig. In this case the display is a bit puerile, but they are frat boys; they are trying to be puerile.
Alligator tastes best
Basted with vegan tears.
Any meat eater who complains about this
should have a long hard think.
Complaints about butchering an animal in public common space seem reasonable, though -- especially if they're from vegetarians or vegans. It's a pretty gruesome sight.
Arlington Greek Festival
When they had the church on Mass Ave they would have their lambs on spits out front for days ahead of time.
It was, um, eye catching ...
Cue the "what about the CHILDREN" brigade in the local paper.