Roasted Armadillo tastes like a cross between pork and antelope; really gamey old antelope. It is the gamiest thing I've ever eaten. Holding my nose helped a little, but not enough. Cooking it with it's guts still inside makes it worse, the closer to the core we got, the gamier it tasted. When roasted, the plates of the hide split and lift away easily, especially if they scorch a little. If you do spit roast an Armadillo whole, an important thing to remember is to run the spit stick in from the mouth end.

It is not hard to kill an Armadillo, but it is impossible to dress one properly without a decent knife. We were unable to get any rock chips to work.