I just went out the back and nearly tripped over a cane toad as large as a baseball. It hopped into the house, and I had to shoo it out.

It seemed to me that it’d be a reasonable size for a meal. Now, frogs are eaten in many parts of the world, and there’s plenty of recipes out there for frogs.

Why shouldn’t we eat cane toads?

(Yes, yes, I know there’s poison glands, but we could remove those, surely.)

Put them in fertiliser or something.. Make them useful

Michael V said:

I just went out the back and nearly tripped over a cane toad as large as a baseball. It hopped into the house, and I had to shoo it out.

It seemed to me that it’d be a reasonable size for a meal. Now, frogs are eaten in many parts of the world, and there’s plenty of recipes out there for frogs.

Why shouldn’t we eat cane toads?

(Yes, yes, I know there’s poison glands, but we could remove those, surely.)

No reason we shouldn’t but it wouldn’t reduce the wild population. Growers would just need an enclosed kiddies pool and dog food.

Does it taste like chicken?

Professor Hayward said cane toad meat is a healthy meat option that is high in essential omega 3.

He has eaten the warty-skinned brown toad and said it does not taste as bad as one might think.

“There’s nothing, once you cook it, that’s particularly slimy about it,” he said.

“It’s not a particularly strong-flavoured meat. It picks up a marinade well.

“It’s like a toad or frog in any cuisine. Frogs based in a French restaurant taste like garlic.”

I agree with Curve, they would have to be bred to cover arses etc

AwesomeO said:

Michael V said:

I just went out the back and nearly tripped over a cane toad as large as a baseball. It hopped into the house, and I had to shoo it out.

It seemed to me that it’d be a reasonable size for a meal. Now, frogs are eaten in many parts of the world, and there’s plenty of recipes out there for frogs.

Why shouldn’t we eat cane toads?

(Yes, yes, I know there’s poison glands, but we could remove those, surely.)

No reason we shouldn’t but it wouldn’t reduce the wild population. Growers would just need an enclosed kiddies pool and dog food.

I’m just thinking of my back-yard cane toads. Rather than golf-club them (not that I do), why not eat them? Not particularly thinking of trying to reduce the wild population. Just that it’s a potential food resource right there in my back yard, and it’s cheaper than beef.

Could you supply that link, Arts?

Michael V said:

Could you supply that link, Arts?

sure

Arts said:

Michael V said:

Could you supply that link, Arts?

sure

Thanks. :)

Australia’s answer to quail maybe MV?

10 minute youtube video on bush tucker and ferals as food by Rob Bredl.

Barefoot Bushman

So, some URLs (including Arts one, thanks.)

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/professor-philip-hayward-believes-australians-should-be-eating-cane-toads-camel-meat-and-sea-urchins/story-fneuz8wn-1226989957895

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-11/academic-wants-us-to-eat-cane-toads/5882986

http://gulpnt.com/2014/05/16/toad-legs-the-new-feral-fine-food/

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-26/cane-toads-for-dinner/308508

http://www.ntnews.com.au/lifestyle/darwin-cooks-boast-new-delicacy-cane-toad-legs/story-fnk0b1ks-1226924454523

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/cane-toads-turning-pest-into-pesto-for-a-fine-feral-food/story-fni0cx12-1227117709678?nk=23a0fe5bfc490dc7c456c8b66d40b2c1

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/cane-toad-solution-eat-em/story-e6frg6nf-1225823755754?nk=23a0fe5bfc490dc7c456c8b66d40b2c1

http://www.australianbladeforums.com/vb4/going-bush/2872-cane-toad-legs.html

https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=cane+toad+meat

Postpocelipse said:

Australia’s answer to quail maybe MV?

I dunno. Just thinking of myself, really. There’s a potential food resource here for free. Why don’t I use it?

Colonel V’s KFCT.

Jing Joh said:

10 minute youtube video on bush tucker and ferals as food by Rob Bredl.

Barefoot Bushman

Thanks. I’ll watch that when I’m back in Brisbane. (YouTube is totally unreliable on the dongle here…)

Michael V said:

Postpocelipse said:

Australia’s answer to quail maybe MV?

I dunno. Just thinking of myself, really. There’s a potential food resource here for free. Why don’t I use it?

Just getting my head round the concept. Wouldn’t need a big barbie to cook them.

Spiny Norman said:

Colonel V’s KFCT.

Heh!

:)

the Chinese might eat them – they eat snakes and live scorpions

failing that unleash thousands if robots to cull them

you could create a line of machines to halt the advance . the cane roads get machine gunned by clay pellets

the machines get supplied their pellets by google drones

you create lines of defence

the machines also move forwards as they clear the land of cane toads

you just shoot cane toads wherever you see them

wookiemeister said:

you just shoot cane toads wherever you see them

Bring on the Aussie cane toad legs banquet.

I’m not trying to kill them out, wookie.

I am just wondering whether they are good food , given they in the back yard here, and I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

So are they a potential food resource?

Michael V said:

I’m not trying to kill them out, wookie.

I am just wondering whether they are good food , given they in the back yard here, and I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

So are they a potential food resource?

There’s no poison in the legs?

food source possible

wouldn’t bother though , just annihilate

cane toads are in the too hard basket, desk jockeys don’t have any brains except for paperwork – it’s why the country is in disarray

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’m not trying to kill them out, wookie.

I am just wondering whether they are good food , given they in the back yard here, and I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

So are they a potential food resource?

There’s no poison in the legs?

It seems not.

Michael V said:

I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

I thought they were bigger than that. Sure you’re not thinking of a softball?

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

I’m not trying to kill them out, wookie.

I am just wondering whether they are good food , given they in the back yard here, and I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

So are they a potential food resource?

There’s no poison in the legs?

It seems not.

and meatier than the frogs legs

you’d want to breed them in farms , easier to get them

don’t bother collecting wild

if a few escape so what ? the damage is already done

Witty Rejoinder said:

Michael V said:

I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

I thought they were bigger than that. Sure you’re not thinking of a softball?

Possibly. It was about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide and bloody thick.

Michael V said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Michael V said:

I nearly tripped over a baseball-sized one this evening.

I thought they were bigger than that. Sure you’re not thinking of a softball?

Possibly. It was about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide and bloody thick.

Oh, then you’re probably not thinking of either a baseball or a softball. Both of these are round.

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

I thought they were bigger than that. Sure you’re not thinking of a softball?

Possibly. It was about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide and bloody thick.

Oh, then you’re probably not thinking of either a baseball or a softball. Both of these are round.

Until they’re beaten out of shape with a bat, as I’m sure you’ve experienced. If you haven’t, likely you will soon.

:-)~P

sibeen said:

Michael V said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

I thought they were bigger than that. Sure you’re not thinking of a softball?

Possibly. It was about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide and bloody thick.

Oh, then you’re probably not thinking of either a baseball or a softball. Both of these are round.

Speaking of cricket…there was an English willow cricket bat at the antique’s fair. it seemed to be set up for wall decorations as two cricket balls were attached by a length of string. It looked old. I left it there.

No. They are a pest. Dettol is the best killer. Put a hole in the top of the bottle and then squirt it on them.

When I arrived at our place (near Byron) 17 years ago there were green tree frogs everywhere, now there are none.

tauto said:

No. They are a pest. Dettol is the best killer. Put a hole in the top of the bottle and then squirt it on them.

When I arrived at our place (near Byron) 17 years ago there were green tree frogs everywhere, now there are none.

Really, I am talking about my yard. I guess I used the “Royal we” in the title, but it can’t be changed now. Perhaps I meant “Mrs V and I”. Dunno.

Cane toads are here, in my yard (and even in my house, tonight). Big and bold. Can I risk eating them? Are they a food resource for me?

(Speaking of food resources, munyeroo grows well here. There is heaps to be harvested. I love the stuff. Pleasant flavour and very nutritious.

To me it’s like eating puffer fish. Can be done but the risks of contamination from bad preparation probably makes it not worth it..

sigh

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-11/academic-wants-us-to-eat-cane-toads/5882986

Many years back when I lived in Brisbane I witnessed a cane toad hop through the fire we had just lit in the brick BBQ. It had been at the back of the BBQ and just calmly hopped and shuffled out through the burning paper.

kii said:

Many years back when I lived in Brisbane I witnessed a cane toad hop through the fire we had just lit in the brick BBQ. It had been at the back of the BBQ and just calmly hopped and shuffled out through the burning paper.

We don’t have cane toads in our Brisbane neighbourhood. Never seen one, alive or dead.

There’s lots of crows, though. I suspect they have them well controlled.

Michael V said:

kii said:

Many years back when I lived in Brisbane I witnessed a cane toad hop through the fire we had just lit in the brick BBQ. It had been at the back of the BBQ and just calmly hopped and shuffled out through the burning paper.

We don’t have cane toads in our Brisbane neighbourhood. Never seen one, alive or dead.

There’s lots of crows, though. I suspect they have them well controlled.

Yeah, it is unlikely a bunch of protein is not going to end up being predated…eventually.

“He has eaten the warty-skinned brown toad and said it does not taste as bad as one might think.”

That’s not exactly a great recommendation :)

cane toads are probably like fugu.. it takes a master to prepare them just right and they could kill you. That’s part of the thrill of eating something. A specialist industry created through trial and error.

Anyone here eaten fugu.. it’s supposed to numb your lips (the carefully portioned poison) – always buy fugu from a master, never the apprentice

>>Anyone here eaten fugu..

No, not anymore.

When I were lad there were no cane toads in Brisbane, when they came the invasion wave was legion.
There were millions of them, if you see a couple of cane toads in your back yard now remember that there were many many more times that at the van of the invasion wave, and big mothers too.

What has contributed to the lower numbers of toads in brisbane since the 80’s?

A TV show I saw years ago indicated that the problem the current fertiliser collectors have is getting the permits that allow them to be in possession of more than just a handful of toads, as they are a “controlled substance” as well as a noxious pest.

Are there fewer cane toads now than in the 80s?

Some scienticians made cane toad sausages with an added yucky taste to discourage quolls from eating the toads and dying, so presumably there are non-deadly ways to prepare cane toads. If you ate a cane toad, is it poisonous enough to kill a human?

I have hundreds of the ugly bastards around my street. I attribute this to living so close to the marshland (also the reason we get a lot of mice and mozzies).

Carmen_Sandiego said:

A TV show I saw years ago indicated that the problem the current fertiliser collectors have is getting the permits that allow them to be in possession of more than just a handful of toads, as they are a “controlled substance” as well as a noxious pest.

Fair-e-muff

Divine Angel said:

Are there fewer cane toads now than in the 80s?

Some scienticians made cane toad sausages with an added yucky taste to discourage quolls from eating the toads and dying, so presumably there are non-deadly ways to prepare cane toads. If you ate a cane toad, is it poisonous enough to kill a human?

I have hundreds of the ugly bastards around my street. I attribute this to living so close to the marshland (also the reason we get a lot of mice and mozzies).

Used to see a lot more in the inner city than we do now.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

A TV show I saw years ago indicated that the problem the current fertiliser collectors have is getting the permits that allow them to be in possession of more than just a handful of toads, as they are a “controlled substance” as well as a noxious pest.

Last time I looked, one was technically allowed to breed cane toads but not rabbits. Although I believe there are lobby groups slowly succeeding in getting bunnies allowed as pets, with conditions such as pets have to be desexed. Not long ago the rules were changed to allow rabbits on buses… as long as they were on buses leaving the state.

Divine Angel said:

Are there fewer cane toads now than in the 80s?

I don’t think so. Cane toads like the edge of civilisation, where they have the lights of the city attracting the bugs of the bush. Thirty years of town planning have removed a lot of their habitats (open drains, pockets of bushland etc) but I am sure the edges of civilisation will still have more than their fair share.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Divine Angel said:

Are there fewer cane toads now than in the 80s?

I don’t think so. Cane toads like the edge of civilisation, where they have the lights of the city attracting the bugs of the bush. Thirty years of town planning have removed a lot of their habitats (open drains, pockets of bushland etc) but I am sure the edges of civilisation will still have more than their fair share.

That makes stronger sense. :)

Postpocelipse said:

What has contributed to the lower numbers of toads in brisbane since the 80’s?

Crows. They turn them over and eat them from the underside.

Michael V said:

Postpocelipse said:

What has contributed to the lower numbers of toads in brisbane since the 80’s?

Crows. They turn them over and eat them from the underside.

To add to that, there are no cane toads in my area of Moorooka, but lots and lots of crows.

Michael V said:

Postpocelipse said:

What has contributed to the lower numbers of toads in brisbane since the 80’s?

Crows. They turn them over and eat them from the underside.

wasn’t only crows. They also suffered from same/similar problems that frogs had.

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Postpocelipse said:

What has contributed to the lower numbers of toads in brisbane since the 80’s?

Crows. They turn them over and eat them from the underside.

wasn’t only crows. They also suffered from same/similar problems that frogs had.

http://www.frogsafe.org.au/cane_toads/decline.shtml

Divine Angel said:

Are there fewer cane toads now than in the 80s?

Some scienticians made cane toad sausages with an added yucky taste to discourage quolls from eating the toads and dying, so presumably there are non-deadly ways to prepare cane toads. If you ate a cane toad, is it poisonous enough to kill a human?

I have hundreds of the ugly bastards around my street. I attribute this to living so close to the marshland (also the reason we get a lot of mice and mozzies).

There is some doubt that there is sufficient posion in one cane toad to kill a healthy human.
But why risk it? Even getting sick from poison is not going to be fun. The poison glands are on the head, but the poison leaks onto the skin if the animal is stressed. It is suggested to freeze them to minimise their dying stress.

As a minimum, the rear legs (skinned) are not poisonous. (Earlier in the thread, I posted links to recipes and preparation techniques.) I would imagine other muscle areas are not poisonous either. Whether or not there is sufficient body and fore-leg muscle to make it worthwhile to fully skin them is not yet apparent.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

Crows. They turn them over and eat them from the underside.

wasn’t only crows. They also suffered from same/similar problems that frogs had.

http://www.frogsafe.org.au/cane_toads/decline.shtml

Cheers.

Michael V said:

Even getting sick from poison is not going to be fun.

No but it would make a good excuse for a sickie. Picture it, day after Australia Day…

You: Yeah mate, can’t make it into work today. Threw some cane toads on the barbie yesterday and I’m real crook. Cheers.

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Even getting sick from poison is not going to be fun.

No but it would make a good excuse for a sickie. Picture it, day after Australia Day…

You: Yeah mate, can’t make it into work today. Threw some cane toads on the barbie yesterday and I’m real crook. Cheers.

LMAO!

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Even getting sick from poison is not going to be fun.

No but it would make a good excuse for a sickie. Picture it, day after Australia Day…

You: Yeah mate, can’t make it into work today. Threw some cane toads on the barbie yesterday and I’m real crook. Cheers.

Good one, DA. Quintessentially Aussie!

:) :)

Michael V said:

Divine Angel said:

Michael V said:

Even getting sick from poison is not going to be fun.

No but it would make a good excuse for a sickie. Picture it, day after Australia Day…

You: Yeah mate, can’t make it into work today. Threw some cane toads on the barbie yesterday and I’m real crook. Cheers.

Good one, DA. Quintessentially Aussie!

:) :)

Speaking of barbies, I’m just back from catch and release of a diamond python from the neghbours barbie.