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I consistently eat various critter for lunch here at work, usually offer a bite to anyone that wants to try it, I don't think anyone has ever said it wasn't good. But there's a couple guys that do some limited hunting or eat some wild game from time to time that made the claim one day that they prefer beef because of the gamey flavor of wild game. I called BS and invited them to try to Pepsi challenge. I'd cook four critters, beef, mule deer, elk, and antelope, all the same, plain ground patties, and we'd see if they could tell them apart.
We did it Monday. I had 12 people participate including myself, my wife, and both kids.
The two people guessed two of the four meats correctly. Me and one other co-worker (who acknowledged it was a total guess). I have no idea how, in less than 24-hrs, I managed to forget which where in each container, but based on the flavors I though I got all four right, the Key I created the night before said I only got 2 of 4 right (beef and deer).
More than 50% of the people didn't get any correct. And several people refused to believe it wasn't all beef.
Some caveats that you might wonder about. The antelope was a mix of buck and doe, mule deer was a very young road kill salvage, elk was a young cow, beef was 4% fat. All of the wild game were mixed with approx 10% pork fat.
The moral of the story for me is that if you think YOU can tell the difference, have someone cook up some plain patties (no seasoning) with several different critters and see if you can. I thought it would be difficult, but that as tough as it ended up.
We did it Monday. I had 12 people participate including myself, my wife, and both kids.
The two people guessed two of the four meats correctly. Me and one other co-worker (who acknowledged it was a total guess). I have no idea how, in less than 24-hrs, I managed to forget which where in each container, but based on the flavors I though I got all four right, the Key I created the night before said I only got 2 of 4 right (beef and deer).
More than 50% of the people didn't get any correct. And several people refused to believe it wasn't all beef.
Some caveats that you might wonder about. The antelope was a mix of buck and doe, mule deer was a very young road kill salvage, elk was a young cow, beef was 4% fat. All of the wild game were mixed with approx 10% pork fat.
The moral of the story for me is that if you think YOU can tell the difference, have someone cook up some plain patties (no seasoning) with several different critters and see if you can. I thought it would be difficult, but that as tough as it ended up.