When I was a youngin my mawmaw and pops would take me out turtle juggin. We caught Huge snappers and soft shells mainly and somtimes we would catch those little yella bellied sliders. My pops would clean them and thenmy mawmaw souped them, fried em, or bake them into a pot pie type of dish. It was all good...My pops told me that when his father "my Greatgrandfather"was young he had caught a realy big snapper. He said that it had a strange knot on its head that would not alow it to pull its head back into its shell. When they cleaned it they investigated the knot by cutting it open. Pops said that when they cut it they found a flint arrow head....Was Pops pulling my young leg?...I dunno..but these things can live for better than 100 years. (According to the Discovery channel) so its possible.By the way my wife and i actualy stop to get box turtles out of the road so they dont get hit...Its a good carma thing, for good luck in my hunting...

SSgt., I have eaten ton's ofGreen Sea Turtles growing up in the Keys!
I'm talking 350-450lb Turtles.

I ate Green Sea Turtle here on Kauai last summer. Some local guy brought it down to a barbeque we were having at the beach. It was marinated in teriyaki. And man I wish there wasnt a 50,000 dollar fine for killin em. Kind of like steak but way better.

It's been a long time since I ate turtle, butI remeber as a kid back in the '70's we use to got visit an uncle of mine in Edinburg Texas, he lived out in the stix ,their was orange groves and all kinds of vegetable fields all around.We use to fish the irrigation canals for big catfish and we would oftencatch huge softshell turtles at least 24" in diameter. If my memory serves me right I think we would just gouge out the legs and neck with a knife , skin and batter up and fry. I thought they tasted exactly like frog legs, the meat even looked the same. But it's been a long time.

yep snapper turtle soup in a cream sauce

I have had snapper soup when I was alot younger and didn't know what I was eating. Tasted like chicken.