Fried salamander, anyone?
FTV reports about eating Mexican salamanders:
Apparently this particular type of salamander, the axolotl (aka “wooper rooper”), used to be quite popular in Japan back in the 1980′s. Many people had kept them as pets, but when the fad died down, salamander breeders were left with tanks full of the creatures. Observing that axolotl are sometimes sold as food in Mexico, a company in Toyama that is trying to market them as a food source.
The reporter tries both fried salamander and salamander tacos, and claims that both taste pretty good.
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