Eating Lion, Llama and Wild Boar!! Mexico's Exotic Meat Obsession!!!

step one rotate i've seen a lot of creatures that look like this being roasted before i've never seen one with all the hair still on its head why is it still like this around the world if you look in the right places you can find rare meat most my fellow americans would consider exotic yeah buddy in iran i notched on camel steak wow that tastes amazing in japan and izakaya paired my sake with raw horse sashimi horse in nigeria grass cutter is a delicacy for those who can afford it do you see the head looking at you well right now i'm in mexico and nothing could have prepared me for what i'm about to see next [Music] today i'm on a mission to uncover mexico's exotic meat obsession he's told me that there can smell the beer and this time i may have gone too far we're a place where we can fight exotic meat wild boar ostrich i could see lion as well did you say lion that's correct it all starts here my men here we are again returning to the show pelucci content creator food vlogger today he'll be showing me a little bit of what mexico has to offer we're inside the market right now what's the name of this market san juan ernesto the market of san juan ernesto can i just call him san juan yeah just someone it's okay i don't care san juan market is one of the oldest markets in mexico city i don't care it's nearly impossible to characterize basically anything you can't find everywhere else ends up here i don't care what is the theme of this market i would say is exotic food okay walking around i've seen big and also very long bulb penises i've seen ostrich eggs little baby piglets i've seen also baby sheep and then here bugs yeah they're everywhere on the market through the desert the edge of the skugs always the first to appear in any exotic food list if you can get past the ew factor you'll be entering a world of protein-rich superfoods most don't make it that far this is more insects than i've ever seen anywhere before i mean you'll see a lot of insects in asia but it'll be like the same five here i don't know i can't even count how many there are and are a lot of these from mexico some specific ones they're from other countries but from here i can tell at least three or four mexicans i like you just called it mexican yeah and then mexican i'm gonna start doing that i'm gonna call american bugs americans in ancient mexico insects were an inseparable part of the diet these are the chapulines which is grasshoppers okay worm and also chicatana ants these days it's not essential but it's still not uncommon to find bugs working their way into some of the local cuisine like these ant egg tacos which are quite delicious for the brave you can also eat them plain like with most of the food here slap on some lime some chili powder and it's ready to go this is like a wood worm oh no just the bug so this is some kind of a larvae and something that is going to blow your mind is that this stuff is chili mixed with a bug that is made powder we're seasoning bugs with other bubs exactly here we go once cheers the citrus makes it real fresh huh the lime and the chili powder makes it better yeah yeah it tastes good you're very optimistic and positive it's a little earthen but super dry it tastes like dry meat kind of oh yeah a little bit like a jerky like if you had an uncle who had no idea how to make turkey but he's trying his best if i was in asia that would give me some kind of superpower yeah i mean you can hear it but it is basically just a snack usually you can just grab it on the way home on the way home you're just making all these weird scenarios you're on your way to a job interview so this is bugs what i've been told is if you want some kind of mystery exotic meat set you're definitely not going to find in the usa this is the market to come to is that right exactly [Music] 100 years ago this market was much like any other the more exotic foods crept in from the 1970s luring in curious eaters and adventurous chefs who wanted to taste the prehispanic diet as well as rare meats like rabbit quail venison ostrich and buffalo we're a place where we can fight exotic meat exotic like that like this exactly as the market expanded so did the list of available proteins from all around the world like this llama meat being served up by fernando in his kitchen i don't think i've ever had llama they look cute yeah they look like alpacas which are also exactly yeah but do they taste cute also known as the new world camel llamas were domesticated in the early 1500s their coats are used to make cloth and their meat well here it's marinated with chimichurri sauce made of parsley cilantro oregano garlic and olive oil then seared atop a hot plate this has just been cooked up here right now it's so hot i tried alpaca when i was in peru and it tastes weird for me it tastes like grass but i don't know it's the same for llama let's try it out [Music] i'm eating a llama it tastes like steak like a normal steak it tastes good it tastes like beef that is not beefy it's the opposite of alpaca because alpaca for me it's stringy like very grassy yeah super clean there's no intense spices on here it's just kind of some salt and some oil i'm pretty impressed this is like my new post-workout meal screw chicken breasts i'm gonna start doing llama that's wild so what other kind of meats do they have here okay oh my gosh i'm looking in the freezer what is that oh he's gonna take his refrigerator yeah he's gonna take it oh my god they used to have the whole crocodile but they cook it and they left the head how much would you charge for this head it's how a little 2 500 pesos this is quite the souvenir i don't know if u.s customs is going to let me back in with this in my suitcase but that is wild so i know for sure they have llama and crocodile what else bernado wild boar ostrich i could see lion as well did you say lion lion meat you want to see it the lion king of the jungle the ultimate apex predator iconic powerful and if you pay the right price it's yours what is us here in the form of a steak so there's an opportunity to eat something this rare someone somewhere is going to try it oh it's the leg this is the leg of a lion right here this is just pure muscle is this your most expensive meat the lion is the most expensive one 7 500 or 8 kilos what's it taste like i don't know i haven't never eat lion meat he told me that it's a super intense flavor and it has a lot of toxins on the meat so it's recommended to not to eat more than one kilo per person once a week up to two pounds per week that's a lot but what about regulations around exotic meat how is this possibly legal lion is legal to eat here see he told me that it comes from a farm so it's totally legal sales of lion meat are legal if they're sourced from a licensed farm whereas unlicensed slaughtering can result in a felony how do i know this is really lying supposedly each stake carries with it a meticulous paper trail authenticating the legality and legitimacy of the media basically he told me that he has to trust on the farm a trust yeah but when it comes to the question of who owns these lion farms and where they can be found well this information is not readily available people watching this video right now some of them are interested some of them are freaking out i don't even know how i feel for sure is this something you would try it's kind of difficult because i don't know you don't have to try it because you're on my show i would like to watch it and then maybe think about it but like right now maybe not i think for now we pass it's very interesting yeah but wow lion it turns out there's another option fernando actually sources much of his product from a private ranch just outside mexico city and he's agreed to bring us there [Music] two hour drive southeast of mexico city will bring you here a 247 acre ranch called el moral here they specialize in jeep deer and a formidable beast i've come here to see in the flesh [Music] swift feet sharp teeth and a bulky body a wall of muscle and bone this is a wild boar [Music] and they're really easy to piss off hello we are in the pen with that i'm kind of nervous actually you tell me that there can smell the beer oh wild boars generally resemble domestic pigs no but with a longer snout and legs oh my god you had the whole control of the animal thank you when they're mature they can reach up to 500 pounds have you ever seen one of these wild boars attack or bite a human gee i was hoping you would just say no they're actually super friendly once you get to know them and not really he's like uh it could be a real issue the wild boar is native to much of eurasia and north africa but they were introduced to north america in the 19th century as demand for wild boar has increased so has the number of people farming it in between 6 to 12 months a board like this is ready for slaughter [Music] this more expensive than just usual pork or pig he told me that because of the diet the wild boars they eat a lot of oatmeal wheat and cereal it costs two or three times more than a normal thing [Music] why do people like wild boar so much does it taste a lot different from pork ah basically the whole difference between a pig and a wild boar is the fat the fat in here with the meat and with the muscle it tastes cleaner unlike most pigs here they skin the hairy beast trim the fat and let it hang for 24 hours from here it typically gets sectioned up and sent to the market but not today today i'll experience wild boar roasted whole cooked up the mexican wine meet our pit master pepe moreno owner of this here ranch pepe is a self-taught chef and he's been refining his boar recipe for the last five years first he seasons the boar with salt and marinates it with a sauce of oregano salt and herbs i smell the oregano already yeah it smells good now the preparation method is something that i believe is going to be new for me i see there's a pit over here there's some kind of rotisserie but he still has to set it up so he's grabbing this torture device it's got these crossbars where the arms will be attached he takes some wire pokes it all the way through the meat and he loops it around the steel here i've never seen something like this okay i'm curious i've seen a lot of pigs boars creatures that look like this being roasted before i've never seen one with all the hair still on its head why is it still like this he told me that it looks cooler and to make sure that we are eating boar and not a pig it's absolutely different from roasting a pig because as you know people here love skin no one skins a pig before roasting it yeah here they've actually have taken all of the skin off along with the fur what do they do with that skin basically he told me that the part is pretty hard you can put it like on the wall you can also use it to make some brushes like a toothbrush yeah like a toothbrush did you use it as a toothbrush roasting a boar this is not a set it and forget it type situation it must be rotated every few minutes for two to three hours until the meat cooks all the way through [Music] pepe put her there also put her there a pleasure to meet you both this is amazing to be here i've only been in mexico city a short time now and we're just getting out of the city and my gosh the drive here gorgeous beautiful thank you very much gracias pepe and his wife yvette are both from mexico city they met in vet school and decided to settle down and build a life in the countryside you almost love the country life compared to city life right you will defer to her [Music] they started out small but every year they had a few more heads or a new species altogether she prefers to stay here because of her career there are a lot of advantages to living out here fresh air good views grasshoppers i want to talk about what's in front of us right now i've had grasshoppers a lot in the past and usually they're just like fried and eaten whole here you've made it into kind of a soup this recipe where does this come from actually it was a plant there was a lot of grasshoppers so they came up with the idea to make this soup and also fry them and making another thing that's brilliant like some kind of biblical prophecy and then they're like you know what we'll do we'll just eat them that's fascinating deep fried grasshoppers boiled in hot water then put into a blender heads butts wings everything gets blended she strains the liquid and uses it as a broth season with homemade salsa made from a blend of four different chilies sprinkle on some whole grasshoppers and enjoy so he puts onions in cilantro yeah you bet nothing nothing on it plain you can go with the lime just no man i want to get the full grasshopper experience right it takes a lot of grasshoppers the grasshoppers are so like toasty a surprising depth of flavor to it the broth itself it's like a grasshopper milk this could be the next big thing chapulines yeah yeah it's one of the most unique textures i've seen from something that just comes from an insect because if you didn't tell people that this was made from grasshopper they would probably think it's some kind of like a beef problem yeah like a meat juice that's really stunning we started yesterday with some exotic meats and i was trying to find out what kind of really interesting or rare meats are people eating here in mexico now you have the wild boar here [Music] now are there other exotic species that you've thought about having here at the ranch they also thinking about water buffalo ostrich why exotic animals and why not just the mainstream animals that everyone else does [Music] they really love this they're working i mean they love animals and they're in love with what they do every day so it's important to say that they're doing this because they want to preserve the species make sustainability and profit as well two hours later and the boar is nearly finished pepe scores the meat more to allow for more even cooking then the adobe a sauce made from guajillo chilies blended with garlic cumin salt and onions let the fire do its job then if you're at the right place at the right time you'll be the first to taste the dripping fatty wild boar rim look at that that looks nice so juicy oh yeah yeah oh he's trying it already let's go for it [Music] this is one of the strangest textures for rib i've ever had it's fat but it's not traditional fat it's like bubbly fat the taste of the fat it's amazing it is not that heavy wow the flavors are very nice super clean with this delicious red sauce on top just really gentle flavors exactly pepe what's your favorite part of the board no ribs right here yep all right so this is it this fat on here is so different it has just weird texture as you rip through it like you're eating a bunch of sea grapes that pop in your mouth like eating fish roe almost but not slimy like that it's got like a weird spider can't understand but yeah do you say can't understand but yeah i kind of understand from here just gonna cut up the whole thing and throw it on a platter and let's sit down and eat [Music] gentlemen this looks incredible incredible oh i love it when the words like are so close in spanish in english yeah incredible let's do a quick tour of the table right now we have the tortillas guacamole salad and onion and the whole leg here yep i'm curious how to eat this i think you could just eat the meat alone for me it's better with tortilla we got oh my god i haven't tried this yeah pretty strong alcohol mezcal it's like tequila's uncle with the dark past he doesn't like to talk about it it's also made from agave i used to have asthma when i was 12. and i think that would have cured it yeah i'm feeling ready to eat oh he has a surprise for us or another bottle i think i thought the wild boar was enough but maybe fernando felt left out while we were setting up for dinner he grilled up his own culinary contribution utilizing his very specific exotic meat expertise fernando he's on the hunt for something what's that oh it's another kind of meat he says that we need to guess [Music] oh no so this is lion it's lion i don't know if i'm ready for this you wanna smell it yeah can i take a look at it it's hard to say if it looks like lion or it just looks like protein it looks like steak it looks kind of beefy and dark and kind of sinewy philosophically i don't know if i really have any issue trying lion i don't know yeah this is a tough one well it's certainly unusual um but it's not endangered he's not in it it's legal yeah and it's here on the table it's on the table i don't want to be rude he's prepared it uh i guess yes okay let's do it what can you imagine of the flavor of this meat i bet it's probably very lean and from the feel of my fork right now i'm going to say a little bit chewy okay he's already chomping on it uro [Music] so chewy very chewy very chewy well there's some fat in there yeah and the charred bits he grilled this and the charred [ __ ] tastes real nice now it's not dry but it is chewy yeah is this eaten because it tastes amazing or because it's a lion [Music] the first time it's just for curiosity they're like right into the meat but after that if they like it they go buying this meat like concept they ask for a hamburger just for the sake i can say the flavor is good you put just a little bit of salt on it it just tastes a little bit beefy and oily although not overly fatty because usually more fat will meet a little bit more tenderness it's on the verge of being uneatable because it's so tough so it's really unique in that way what do you think it was his first time trying the lion he loved to start chewing and chewing and chewing your first time maybe you'll put a lions on your ranch next quite a unique experience i don't want the lion to overshadow this this is what we really came here for i love that we have like a whole leg here we can just carve it ourselves all right we got some mean i'm gonna put a load of onions and some guacamole my first wild boar taco so many firsts on this trip cheers it's amazing it's so delicious it's interesting you know doing this kind of video or having this kind of experience that people are going to see it's impossible to do this without somebody having strong opinions about it yeah and it's just people you know in our day-to-day lives we've become really conditioned like these certain types of things are normal it's what i'm used to so that's what's okay and food is like a religion to almost everybody around the world whether they know it or not like what they're familiar with is what is canon to them yeah that is what is okay yeah anything outside of that should be questioned so there's no way to make a video like this and satisfy everybody someone's gonna be upset about it for me my goal is just to show i guess the diversity that exists in the world and that there's no set normal and it's also a good opportunity for people to take a look at their own beliefs because people always blame the vegans but it's not the vegans the people that complain the most about videos with animal meat included it's the people who eat meat but won't accept other types of meat being eaten so maybe they eat beef and they're like well that's okay but this one's not okay and so i think it's good for people to have a moment to like look at their own beliefs and question them a little bit because that's something i've done over and over while doing this show so guys just want to say one more time gentlemen amigos thank you very much for this experience incredible and something i'll remember for a very long time cheers guys cheers thank you best ever food review show is a small team of independent creators and everything we do here works because of you guys click the link in our description to join our patreon and receive exclusive benefits of peace okay i got two i got one really long one a little shorter fatter one okay my thinking was this okay oh no can we ask him to turn his light back on let's take a quick table of the oh my gosh um keep it together sonny there's another kind of red light yeah yeah that's looking worm exactly guacamole guacamole how old do you have to be to drink in mexico 18. oh my god i mean legally because usually we start to drink at 15 maybe 14. you don't judge me no judgment i'm going to boot you in the face we can share this pen together you're being selfish it's being a pig boom guys that is the end of the video a huge thank you to pelucci my man i'm very grateful honey thank you very much no thank you i love the experiences today and you are an incredible ambassador to your country thank you very much you can check out his youtube channel which is called absolutely guys that is it for this one thank you so much for watching i will see you next time let's get some of that mezcal i think the bottle's still open and he just left it on the table why do you do that i think he wants us to drink it

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Length: 23min 17sec (1397 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 14 2021