How do you folks like to eat your cottonmouths?

**psilvers** · 04-09-2010, 09:19 AM

SHELBY, Miss. (AP) — A restaurant owner is under investigation after he apparently tried to sell the meat of a cottonmouth moccasin to customers, police said.

Eddie Boone, a city worker, said he sold the owner of James Quality Market the venomous snake, which he had killed with a pipe while he was cleaning streets.

The snake "was gonna get me so I had to get him first," he said.

Boone said that while he was showing off the snake nearby Thursday, the owner of the grocery store-restaurant combo "came out and asked me if he could buy the snake for a dollar."

Police Chief Bobby Joe Williams went to the market after Boone mentioned the odd business transaction to police. The owner gave him the snake, which already had been skinned and filleted, Williams said.

"He was getting ready to cook and serve the snake," Williams said. "We want to see just what all this man has been cooking."

Investigators have declined to identify the businessman. The store has remained open.

Lee Ellington, a law enforcement officer for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, said it is illegal to buy or sell a non-game species. Penalties could include a maximum $5,000 fine, five days in jail and suspension of hunting and fishing privileges.

Municipal court clerk Cecilia Bland said putting a snake in a commercial freezer also could violate health codes, but she added that police have had trouble getting the health department to investigate.

Ellington said the businessman could have put his customers at risk by selling the meat.

"There are some Texas farmers that do serve rattlesnake, but they are professionals in detoxing the snake," Ellington said. "Odds are that this man is not a professional."

**JohnnyLaw** · 04-09-2010, 02:32 PM

ICK! nasty little ba$%^!$%^!tards! I`d like to just kick him in the icehole!

**peculiarmike** · 04-10-2010, 01:58 AM

OK. So just how do you "detox" a snake???? And why??? There is no venom in the meat. Cut off the head, skin and gut it, yer done. Git to cookin'. Little salt, pepper. Steak sauce.
I don't eat snakes. But if it was all there was and I was really hongry........
Detox a snake. :o
People are SO ignorant any more.

**springhillwantabe** · 04-10-2010, 02:41 AM

come on tell it like it is mike

**cook** · 04-10-2010, 04:03 AM

seems like the city worker is the one that should be worried.he is the one that illegally sold wildlife,plus he did it while on city time.

**peculiarmike** · 04-10-2010, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by springhillwantabe

come on tell it like it is mike

I try.

**bwillaub** · 04-10-2010, 05:16 PM

Rattlesnake is very good. I've eaten it several times.

**springhillwantabe** · 04-10-2010, 05:23 PM

was it detoxed? or did you eat it plain

**bwillaub** · 04-10-2010, 06:39 PM

I only eat em and run from em. The catchin, killin, filleting, and cooking are up to somebody else.

**MOPanfisher** · 04-13-2010, 08:01 AM

Once upon a time many years ago with thh help of a couple buddies and some beer, we killed a large cottonmouth while canoeing a river. After watching it squirm around in the bottom of the canoe for a while we decided to skin it, chunk it up and cook it over the campfire because we was tough enough to eat about anything. A little salt and some fire and it was done. After a while one of us finally got a piece gnawed off of the spine and it was pretty much tasteless and so tough it would have made great tennis shoes.

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