LAST EDITED ON Feb-12-12 AT 10:48PM (MST)[p]Eel, I want you to know that this is just a rumor and may not be true. But I heard this rumor about a person I know gave some cougar steaks to a another person and his wife.
She was not told that it was cougar meat and she cooked it for herself and her husband for dinner.Now this woman is noted as being a great cook and excels at cooking wild game and fish.
She and her husband both though it was great and asked the friend what kind of meat it was. He told her and she told him not to do that again or she would never bake him anymore pies in the future. She though it was great tasting meat until she found out it was from a overgrown kitty.
RELH
P.S. I remember from years ago about reading journals on the mountain men in the 1820's - 1840's that a lot of them preferred cougar meat to many other wild game meat.