A conflation of misunderstanding and good intentions led to a rowdy disagreement on Black Sand Beach last Friday. The SVM Herpetological Society led a protest against the students holding their own “Gator Roast.” The Gator Roast is a tailgating tradition at the University of Florida, usually held to coincide with the football team’s annual spring game.
However, the Herp Society apparently believed that the students in attendance would actually be roasting an endangered alligator and sought to curtail such an heinous activity.
Said one club member, “Grenadian gators are fairly rare, I’ve actually never heard of them, so we probably shouldn’t be eating them.”
Words nearly came to blows as the Florida alumni sought to protect their sacred tailgate rite. It was not until someone realized that the reptiles being grilled were merely iguanas, not gators, that tempers cooled and the party continued.
No gators were harmed in the mocking of this event.
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