Our story begins 1 year ago on a hike in Nags Head Woods ending in a tick bite. It turns out a certain tick, called a lone star tick can cause a meat allergy. Fast forward a year to a Puerto Rico 10 year anniversary trip with minimal surf. The wife and I were on a biking art tour in a neighborhood of San Juan called Santurce just south of Condado. The woman running the tour took us to a restaurant in that hood where she knew the owners, who she explained were essentially squatters at first, but the restaurant became popular with the locals. I order rice and beans and chicken. The food comes, I dig in. The chicken is well seasoned, but perhaps a little gamey with some tough spots, but doesn't ring any alarms. On the bike ride back my digestive tract tightens up and I feel super thirsty. When it doesn't go away after a gallon of water it hits me that this is how I feel after eating mammal meat.... So I'm convinced I was served mammal meat of some kind. Question is what? It was white, dense, 1 inch thick, maybe 6 oz filet. I'm thinking rat.
Dude. Relocate to LA. Offer your services as a 'meat preventer' to all the vegan hotties in the land of fruits & nuts. All you gotta do is taste-test the funky cool (supposedly) vegan products prior to the client's consumption. You'd make a pile of cash.
It was very probably pork. Puerto Ricans do eat a lot of pork; there is plenty of it on the island and it is not very expensive. I do not believe they would serve you other mammals than pork; possible, of course, but highly unlikely.
I know pork, I love and miss eating it. This meat was very white, pork has a grayish color (even though it's the other white meat.). Their was tons of cats in the hood their, that's my other guess.
Yeah, that just makes you allergic to limes. I just switched to lemons. I can't believe a tick bite would make you allergic to meat! That ish is crazy. Cat... Might be white meat... a lot of fast twitch muscle...
Long pig | Define Long pig at Dictionary.com www.dictionary.com/browse/long-pig (among the Maori and Polynesian peoples) human flesh as food for cannibals. I hope it was cat...
How long does the allergy last? Fukin' ticks man! Gator and snake sort of taste like chicken, but I'm thinking rabbit, possum, or rat. All of those have the chicken sort of taste and feel. I have never had rat myself but I've seen it eaten of TV.
In PR, there are no gators, rabbits, possums or monkeys. There are a lot of rats, mostly of the human variety that have just moved there from the Southeast USA, with surfboards.
Monkey Island, 1/2 mile off the eastern coast of PR. Is it possible they get them from there? http://www.puertoricodaytrips.com/monkey-island/
