We cannot stop talking about roasted alligator

Here is a photo of an alligator dinner. The question is how does an alligator taste? We still do not have the answer, but this photo does show you what oven-roasted alligator looks like. I have tasted alligator before when some friends tricked me into thinking I was eating fresh fish. To me, it tasted like a cross between chicken and fish. Somewhere in right the middle.

[I hope I have not made anyone ill by this photo and if I have, I am very sorry]

In an email network called Foodsafe:

A couple of years ago, a Washington state restaurant inspector wanted to know how to cook alligator. http://www.foodsafetyweb.info/ Long enough so a meat thermometer registers 165 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds, "same as for fowl to which alligator is most closely related," replied a regulator from Florida. What about eating leftover pizza? Beware mozzarella cheese, which can be a hotbed for potentially dangerous bacteria, said O. Peter Snyder Jr., a St. Paul, Minn., food-safety consultant. And, of course, there's the avian flu. If it leaps from fowl to humans, duck hunters are likely to be the first U.S. victims, Dr. Snyder wrote.

In debates that last for days, months and, occasionally, years, there's talk about bugs, toilets, spoilage and pathogens. Sometimes discussions turn ugly, with clashes among scientists, regulators and corporate health managers.

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