[2] Kangaroo Burger topped with chimichurri sauce and fresh leaf lettuce, served on a house-baked salted bun.

[3] Frankenstein Burger 6 oz. Patty made with ostrich, emu, turkey, and yak, topped with honey bourbon pickled jalapeños and fresh leaf lettuce, served on house-baked spinach and sesame seed bun.

[4] Ostrich Sausage Scotch Egg Burger: grass-fed beef burger topped with an ostrich sausage Scotch Egg, lettuce, shaved red onions, and spicy beer mustard.

Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina celebrates their Exotic Meat Month each April, with exotic meat burgers all month long.

If this sounds good to you, Durham is a lovely place to visit in April. Start planning your trip!

Throughout the month different types of exotic burger meat are featured, rotating daily depending on the scarcity of each particular meat.

Given how burger-crazy Americans are, maybe that’s why there aren’t exotic burger festivals everywhere.

Bull City Burger embodies the farm-to-fork philosophy. So which farms do those alligator, caribou, iguana and python burgers come from?

The restaurant works for months to source exotic meats for the month-long celebration. Some of the meats are so difficult to get, there are as few as twelve burgers available.
 
 
WHAT’S ON THE MENU

From A to Z, in the four years of the festival they’ve served alligator, antelope, bear, bison, bugs, camel, duck, elk, emu, escargot, frog Legs, hare, kangaroo, moose, ostrich, python, rabbit, reindeer, scorpion, squirrel, tarantula, turkey, turtle, wild boar, and yak.

Not all are available each year.

Some, like bison burgers, have become pretty mainstream and won’t intimidate anyone. Others are only the most adventurous and daring of eaters.

(We’re still creeped out over watching Al Roker eat tarantula-on-a-stick, a common Chinese street food, at the Beijing Olympics.)

There are shirts with the event motto, “I never met a meat I wouldn’t eat.” Eat six exotic burgers and its free.

And there’s dessert: Dark Chocolate Bug Bark, house-made chocolate loaded with a mix of crispy, crunchy bugs (including, but not limited to, ants, crickets, and mealworms).

It’s available as a candy bar-size serving or as a topping option for their homemade ice cream.

Bull City Burger’s year-round menu is either made from scratch or bought locally.

They grind North Carolina pasture-raised beef daily, make their own buns, make the mustard, the mayo, the bacon, and the pickles, and stuff their all-beef hotdogs.

Everything is all-natural: no corn syrup, no added hormones, no antibiotics.

> Here’s more about Exotic Meat Month. 
 
 
HAVE YOUR OWN EXOTIC BURGER FESTIVAL!

Wild Fork Foods sells ground bison, boar, elk, kangaroo, ostrich, venison, and yak.

They’re all heart healthy: very lean and high in protein.
 
 
Why is Durham, North Carolina called “Bull City?”

It was the home of the Blackwell Tobacco Company, that produced tobacco from the 1850s through 1988. They named their tobacco brand “Bull Durham.”

The name and the image of a bull became synonymous with the city, and the nickname “Bull City” stuck.
 
 
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