There are plenty of taboo foods out there to try. Frogs, snakes, alligator soup, fried-brain sandwiches, dog stew and cat meatballs just to name a few. For the latter two, you'd have to head over to the far east.
If you get cheap frog meat, it tastes a bit fishy. Never a good sign.
Frog meat is actually quite delicate. It is the kind of meat that is best served with a light sauce that is savoury. Nothing sweet like BBQ sauce, something more like a vinegar/mustard reduction. The meat comes away in strands, almost like pork, but finer strands.
It has its own taste. Anyone who says it tastes like chicken has no imagination.
Frog legs are good...consistency of chicken, but a more gamey flavor. I've never had alligator, but maybe...seems logical. Of course, you also have to remember there is a difference between farm raised/store bought, and wild. Try it, worst thing that'll happen is, you won't like it.
I've had frog in place of chicken in jambalaya, in my opinion it's about the only way I'd eat frog. Gives the jambalaya a bit more of a Naw'lins taste... Yum!
There's a few ponds out in the fields where our cattle graze, when I was younger my cousins and I would go shoot frogs with our BB guns, I bet now that no one does that I could catch some big ones and have a fry