Turtle Heart Still Beating After 2 Hours - Turtle Power!

We *harvested* this rather large snapping turtle and cleaned it for eating. We noticed the heart still beating on the concrete driveway. It beat for well over 2 hours after it was pulled from the turtle! Pretty amazing.

**Note**
By harvested, I mean we caught it, killed it, cleaned it, and ate it. Just as you would deer, turkey, fish, lobster, crab, chicken, beef, lamb, a pig for bacon, ham, ribs, or pork steaks.

Half of the turtle meat was made into chili. The other half cooked in a crock pot with BBQ sauce. You can find many recipes online. Turns out I'm not a fan of turtle meat though. Too watery. Here's a quick recipe for turtle soup:

SNAPPING TURTLE SOUP
Cook 3 pounds of turtle meat. Remove from bones, keep broth. Chop into small pieces. Chop 6 hard cooked eggs up fine. Heat 8 quarts of milk, 1/4 pound of butter; add salt and pepper. Add meat, eggs. Do not boil. Add broth with milk.

I don't care if you love turtles, if you're a vegetarian, or think that deer are beautiful, innocent creatures. Don't leave ignorant comments. It only makes you look like a douche rocket. Depending on how you present your comment though, I may still post it.

For kids viewing this, yes, I teamed up with Shredder and caught one of the TMNT's. Cowabunga! Turtle Power.

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[Turtlelovingwannabee]

U said after 35 mins but the title says 2 hours ?

[oneofkarma]

@Turtlelovingwannabee When the video was being shot, it had been over 35 minutes. When the video was actually posted on YouTube, it had been over 2 hours.

[nanashi1o3]

alligator heart beat for like 8 hours after there dead

[oneofkarma]

@nanashi1o3 I have yet to try gator meat but it's definitely on the list. I will take a day or two road trip just to get some.

[slikvic560]

since when is 35 minutes 2 hours?

[oneofkarma]

@janreyqm7 I wish you were a cow so that you could understand what a steak feels like. :)

[Gyzome]

@splash602 I must commend you for your degree of self-awareness as, indeed, you are a disproportionately huge douche. If you believe in "God", then you must be aware that your bible says that animals were solely created as a food source for man. If you're an atheist, then you must be aware that we've evolved from hunters and that this happens in nature all the time.

If you're, like me, a nihilist, then I don't see how you could even remotely have a problem with this.

[N0NTAGE]

@GreatGooglieWooglie yes, and what I'm trying to explain is there is a difference between hunting or dissecting and posting it on the internet.

[N0NTAGE]

@619studios i see were your coming from. but see were I'm coming from. you can kill an animal, or you could post a vid of it on the web. i know there is no killing but do you see where I'm coming from? like, this is to the extreme, but if you were to kill some one, or video tape killing someone and put it not he web. which do you think you'd get charged more for? referring to the well known 2 guys 1 hammer.

[N0NTAGE]

@NESxGaming i see where you are coming from, but at the time this is what was going through my head, you can shoot an animal, thats fine, but if you were to shoot an animal and post a video on the internet, that is different. i know there was no shooting of animals in this video, but that is a way of saying what i was thinking they should at least have a thing blocking this video saying you have to sign up due to graphic content. unless you say NO ONE has problems with seeing a cut out heart.

[N0NTAGE]

@oneofkarma well i don't suffer from YMSU, i do suffer from psychosis

[splash602]

@oneofkarma i apologise, i didnt know that, also, i do agree with that (partialy) cuz there are allot of snappers,

just please dont kill/ eat painted turtles. =)

[oneofkarma]

@Chronix74 Sure they do. Meat comes from the grocery store and McDonald's. Everyone knows that. :)

[oneofkarma]

@mrsnowman102 and the video is 11 seconds long. Don't forget that. That oneofkarma dude cannot count time.