Eating Leaches

  • fearnofish82
    Warroad/LOTW
    Posts: 387
    December 22, 2008 at 3:42 am #1260921

    Just caught the end of a dirty jobs episode. They were trapping leaches up in northern mn. At the end of the show they fried some up and were having a feast. They just cut a little vein out. They even ate a few raw.

    So if you don’t catch anything you can still eat. Someone let me know how they really taste I guess you can fry just about anything though and make it somewhat edible.

    riveratt
    Central Wisconsin US-of-A
    Posts: 1464
    December 22, 2008 at 3:54 am #730657

    Yep, I about gagged when the dude ate a raw one. I knew the camera guy was gonna eat one, he eats anything. But a leach?? I’m not even sure I can spell the sound I made when I saw it. Yuck comes to mind.

    wade
    Cottage Grove, MN
    Posts: 1737
    December 22, 2008 at 4:48 am #730667

    wonder if they taste like chicken?

    Fife
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 4046
    December 22, 2008 at 1:26 pm #730690

    I watched that too. I think I’d try the deep fried leeches.

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    December 22, 2008 at 2:33 pm #730713

    Dang that was gross. Nothing like making the MN man look kinda like a goof.

    It was interesting to see how they catch em. Not bad money but I wonder how many guys split it. And, I didn’t catch if they mentioned how long the harvest season is,, 2 months, 3 months? If a guy could do that all year it would be a very nice living.

    DaveB
    Inver Grove Heights MN
    Posts: 4469
    December 22, 2008 at 2:51 pm #730720

    My friend did that on a Vermilion trip, after about 30 -I still cant get the image of the end of it wiggling in the corner of his month out of my head.

    mrwalleye
    MN
    Posts: 974
    December 22, 2008 at 2:53 pm #730722

    Wait till they get a Tape worm from that.
    I dont remember were I saw it, but I read a story of a guy that was in Canada and ate some under cooked walleye and got a tape worm,
    the story made you want to burn the crap out of your fish before you ate it.

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    December 22, 2008 at 3:01 pm #730724

    Quote:

    Wait till they get a Tape worm from that.
    I dont remember were I saw it, but I read a story of a guy that was in Canada and ate some under cooked walleye and got a tape worm,
    the story made you want to burn the crap out of your fish before you ate it.

    Was that the one where he had to call his wife into the bathroom to help pull it out? I saw that on Discovery a few years back. That is true love!!!

    garvi
    LACROSSE WI
    Posts: 1137
    December 22, 2008 at 5:11 pm #730782

    New meaning to blood sausage

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    December 22, 2008 at 7:22 pm #730827

    Nothing like making the MN man look kinda like a goof. Pretty easy to do.

    walleyebuster5
    Central MN
    Posts: 3916
    December 22, 2008 at 8:30 pm #730849

    Quote:

    Nothing like making the MN man look kinda like a goof. Pretty easy to do.

    HA. As opposed to the Northern Wisconsinite?

    chris-tuckner
    Hastings/Isle MN
    Posts: 12318
    December 22, 2008 at 8:44 pm #730850

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Nothing like making the MN man look kinda like a goof. Pretty easy to do.

    HA. As opposed to the Northern Wisconsinite?

    Yeah, you don’t HAVE to make a WI resident look that way. Pretty much a bred in trait.

    Or was that inbred?

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    December 22, 2008 at 9:17 pm #730869

    Hey we didn’t eat the leeches and I am from southern Wisconsin.

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