What would dinosaur meat have tasted like?

[Lucky Bolt 35,063]

Hmm....probably like chicken. 

Edited April 20, 2019 by Lucky Bolt

[MangoFoalix 24,961]

Honestly, who knows. Maybe like chicken.

[The Recherche 29,968]

Well, considering the fact that crocodiles are over 200 million years old, and that it is perfectly lawful to eat them... perhaps you could find out yourself!

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Well, they aren't alive now so why are we wondering this? Maybe if somebody ever invents a time machine that is capable of travelling to the past and at the least back to the present, you can go back 100 million years ago and find out. Just saying though, I have a feeling that dinosaur meat would taste terrible.

[Thuja 3,659]

Probably like gator or something like that...  This topic makes me want to order some jerky now...

[Treeglow Flicker 13,671]

Came in here with the intention to say chicken, but I was beaten to that thought already. Therefore I shall say cow. Or perhaps fish... Or fish-cow?

[IronM17 5,379]

I would say  because of the reason, that the birds are the next relatives, it can be possible that they would taste similar like poultry. Or maybe like crocodile. 

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

Probably like alligator. I had alligator once. It was more expensive than chicken and not as good. A little slimy, but that might just have been the way it was cooked. It was battered and fried.

Edited April 2, 2022 by Brony Number 42

[Nsxile 26,962]

Probably like chicken.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I do not even want to know.

Edited May 12, 2019 by Dusklicious

[CypherHoof 26,483]

Well, apparently birds descended from dinosaurs so... like chicken?

[Widdershins 9,959]

  *...wheels in, leaning smugly on an office chair*

 Teeeeechnically!

 That depends entirely on species! You shouldn't say that a Bronto or a Stego is ANYTHING like a raptor or rex!

As Jeric's video pointed out, predator species & herbavoric species live entirely different lives with different diets. Even somewhat related species taste worlds different! Take it from somebeing who's  nommed most everything with muscle fiber! You couldn't mistake turkey or duck for Chicken in a moment! The ONLY REASON we have the "Tastes Like Chicken" meme, is that chicken is extremely bland & flavorless and pretty much just tastes like base meat.

 While I can't say I've had reptile, I HAVE eaten Frog! Which oddly enough, tastes more like Fish.

 Turtle is almost never served as actual slabs of meat, from what I can tell, and is famous for being soup. Therefore, I can surmise that turtle has this rather bitter, if not sour, taste to it. Something that is almost always buried in mud or saltwater, will likely take some of that essence in. Does so with frogs, I say!

 What I have always theorized, if you want good meat, eat the Meat-Eaters. A diet of meat, makes the meateater's meat a meatier meat! A lifetime of chasing down prey likely makes the meat tougher & stronger, that more steak-like texture, as opposed to an slower paced life of an herbivore. Its what they say, you can taste when the meat you've been served has led its entire life in a pen. Buy Free-Range!

...Oh! ALSO!!

TEEEEEEEEECHNICALLY SPEAKING!...

We have eaten the flesh of extinct species.

 That whole bit about explorers finding a mammoth frozen solid, but no way to cart all of it back before it rots? So they kind of have to eat mammoth meat?

 We HAVE seen fossils with impressions of tissue material on occasion. While cloning a full animal might be out of question, cloning a slab of dino muscle would be childs' play, I'm sure!

[TheRockARooster 51,349]

It might taste quite off because it’s from 65 million years ago.

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,362]

A rock-hard steak people can't handle  

[daviddaviddavid 776]

No idea, but I'd be up for trying some. 

[Sonic Shimmer 4,132]

There's so many different types of dinosaur, I don't think there would just be one taste.

Carnivorous dinosaurs would probably taste a bit like chicken, seeing as they're birds' evolutionary ancestors.

I'd imagine something like a sauropod would be more like pork.

[Sparklefan1234 170,964]

On 2019-04-20 at 2:27 PM, TwilySparky said:

Honestly, who knows. Maybe like chicken.

 

On 2019-04-20 at 2:26 PM, Lucky Bolt said:

Hmm....probably like chicken. 

 

On 2019-05-12 at 7:20 AM, Nsxile said:

Probably like chicken.

 

C'mon, guys. Have the Flintstones taught us nothing? 

 

 Dinosaurs probably tasted like beef or pork. 

[Splashee 28,564]

It would taste dinotastic!

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

Probably like thick beef

[ExplosionMare 18,063]

They’d probably taste like whatever reptiles taste like 

[DubWolf 17,263]

Dinosaurs: the OTHER white meat.

 

That is all  .

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

Chimken..............

[They call me Loyalty 1,948]

Magic and chicken are my answers to everything.

[EpicEnergy 23,218]

I can imagine it would taste like normal meat, except tougher.

[Tom Gallagher 33,588]

Probably very flakey.