Florida restaurant sells iguana pizza after cold snap
People writes that Bucks Coal Fired in North Palm Beach, Fla., announced it will sell a pizza called "The Everglades," featuring iguana meat, after unexpectedly frigid temperatures in South Florida left some iguanas cold-stunned and falling from trees. Local trapper Ryan Izquierdo told PEOPLE he collected more than 90 iguanas on Jan.
30 and explained the reptiles "enter a state of paralysis where their muscles stop working, their body shuts down, and their heart rate slows down to survive." He said he cleaned the animals and "used the legs and the tail" for the pizza. A Bucks Coal Fired employee demonstrated assembling the pie, which included olive oil, parmesan, ranch, bacon, venison and iguana; the employee said, "That s--- looks crazy." Izquierdo called a slice "unbelievable," said the meat "really tastes like frog leg.
United States, North Palm Beach, Florida