The year is 2022. A disease has killed millions of pigs across Southeast Asia. Thailand, already battered by toxic air and a relentless virus, can no longer rely on plentiful, inexpensive pork to eat.
Enter the crocodile.
With swine flesh no longer affordable for many, an alternative meat is leaping out of the swamp and onto plates across the capital. And while the delicacy isn’t entirely new, this reporter went to investigate the crocodile craze that suddenly has food fanatics obsessing over plates of scaly reptile meat.
Thus, in a post-Pfizer booster daze, I camouflaged in a bright green dino hat and set out to hunt the beast’s flesh, a drowsy huntsman turning the tables to stalk predator turned prey. I suspected it would taste a lot like chicken.
Croc my…
