>>>>COW TOUNGE. Yuck! ************************************************************ 07-31-03, 10:05 AM Georgia85 Well I actually just mentioned this in another post. But guess it would be Zebu. And just the other night I had capers for the first time. Who knew they actually are buds from a shrub? Ewe!
07-31-03, 10:27 AM dogspit I am not particularly adventurous, so I guess it would be the eel bowl from Tokyo Express. It does not rank among my favorite flavors !
07-31-03, 11:07 AM juanruiz Beaver.
07-31-03, 11:58 AM NCcichlid I've eaten beefalo, which was brought by my brother from Colorado to Georgia and we grilled the bugers. A slightly gamey taste, but good burgers all the same.
I've tried sushi on three different occassions. Sushi does not suitme.
Calamari is certainly worth the try. The squid is like a tastless sponge, just waiting for the chef to fill it with the flavors of choice. My preference is lots of garlic and butter.
Then again, a dozen raw oysters with saltines, horseradish and a drop of tobasco and I'm happy. Smile
07-31-03, 12:02 PM kittypal Zebu, what's that????
Not adventurous here either, McRib is probably the weirdest thing I have eaten!! Smile
07-31-03, 12:17 PM Sherasi well, escargo I think... calimari ... artichokes (the real way not the pre-prepared hearts)
07-31-03, 12:21 PM Kati99 Zebu is just beef - nothing special actually. And tongue and capers taste really good!
07-31-03, 12:48 PM Gin Well, comin' from Loosieanna , ya gotta be careful bout eatin'. Could taste like chicken and really be nutria!! Eek
I'm not too adventurous but besides crawfish, I've had alligator.
You know, nutria is really a big rat, so I ain't touchin' that! Razz Razz Razz Wink
07-31-03, 12:55 PM cyberlaol Octupus and a German meal one time called Tar Tar -this should gross out people
" Uncooked hamburger meat-salt & pepper,onion and I think an egg or two(yes I said Uncooked!)
A friend from work has eaten Muskrat(there is actually a dinner annually where they eat a whole bunch of them for a meal-to me its just a big Rat!
07-31-03, 01:10 PM clarebear What is worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?
Biting into an apple and finding 1/2 a worm.
I did that once. Red Face
07-31-03, 01:14 PM koicarp As a kid I used to live near a dog buscuit factory. They used to make this one particular buscuit about the size of a waffle. I would sneak round back and grab one off the cooling rack. they tasted brilliant and I got a shiny coat as well.
Also as I fish for carp, on the bank I often eat the occassional Boillie ( small balls of fish bait ) There are some superb flavours my favorite are Tutti fruitti
Big Grin Big Grin Big Grin
07-31-03, 01:23 PM Georgia85 MMMM - I love McRib Kitty!!! And Zebu is an ox... Here is a picture
07-31-03, 02:01 PM Di Escargo?- no thanks! I sat beside a friend one evening who ordered this--smelled delicious but knowing what they were and looking at the shells had my stomach jumping!
Calimari?- again, no thanks. Handeling those slimy squid while out deepsea fishing is quite enough to turn me away.
I have had Cajon spiced alligator appetizers, not bad at all-- Beef tongue, didn't care for it, -venison and elk, delicious. Had beefalo, much like hamburger - wasn't impressed.
Born and raised in California so artichokes are a yearly, seasonal vegetable. Love the hearts with mayonaise.
A big NO to any and all raw fish or meat though I do love my steaks rare.
07-31-03, 02:26 PM markyb I travelled the world a bit in my younger days, and ate some pretty strange stuff. Stir fried locusts in Africa, fried mealy grubs, Swallows, chicken heads, lizards in Autralia, etc.
But the worst was in a restaurant on Kowloon Island, which I didn't know was a snake restaurant. You had to choose one and they killed and skinned it in front of you, then stir fried it in a wok at your table.
I really had to force some of it down, so as not to offend my host. But shortly after, I had to force myself to keep it from coming back up !
07-31-03, 02:57 PM JerseyTomater Pickled herring and sardines (in mustard sauce). Yum! Big Grin
07-31-03, 03:00 PM Texan-In-Exile Oh yuck! Some of you have me beat all to pieces! Eek
When I was a kid, I ate beef tongue a few times - it was pretty good! I like chicken gizzards, hearts and livers - but if I'd heard of them AFTER I knew what they were, I probably would never have tried them.
I've eaten beefalo, buffalo, squirrel, rabbit, sea turtle, alligator... (the last 4 of which all tasted like chicken! Wink ) I've eaten crawfish (NOT the heads!) - they're OK, but it's too much trouble to get to what little meat there is.
Cyberlaol - I could probably handle Tar Tar - and I LOVE my steaks rare! Razz But I have no interest in trying raw seafood!
Though I've been around people eating them, I've never been able to try calf brains or chitterlings (chit'lins)! Eek
(Koicarp - A shiny coat? Big Grin )
07-31-03, 03:09 PM Georgia85 I've got to ask...what is BEEFalo? I've heard of Bufalo but Beefalo?
Di, fried calamri is delicious! And Escargot in puff pastry...to die for!
Cavier served with brie on a water cracker...mmmm
But gotta say, NO WAY, NO HOW would I EVER go to a snake restaurant!!!
07-31-03, 03:48 PM Georgia85 Ohhhhh...so it's like ground beef with a touch of buffalo then. Guess we don't have that down South. Got Possum in a can tho! Big Grin...seriously!
07-31-03, 04:48 PM XFED Wild boar. It's tough, greasy and tastes like snow tires (I guess). So much for adventure.
07-31-03, 04:52 PM methos Sorta ... the animal it comes from is actually 3/8 buffalo, 5/8 cow (or maybe that's what you were saying...)
07-31-03, 05:15 PM Jelp01 I'm too much stuck in a rut to eat too many things out of the ordinary.
I guess the most exotic things I've eaten would include: Beefalo Calimari Escargot And for me, these two were out of the ordinary: Deer Pheasant
07-31-03, 05:16 PM Kwll well take your pick, due to a number of survival schools and visits to foreign lands as a guest I have eaten the following:
- raw lizard - rattlesnake - rabbit - grasshopper cooked - boar - raw fish - fermented soybean curd - raw fish eggs, not caviar either! - kimchi ...various types - Aussie vegemite probably some others in there too but just can't remember!
07-31-03, 05:37 PM honilov OMG, I can't imagine eating all that stuff. Some of it sound like 'Granny's' vittles (sp) on Beverly Hillbillies. Big Grin
The strangest food I've tried to eat is Chitterlings. I took one bite, and will never take another one. It taste just like it smells. Frown Big Grin
07-31-03, 05:44 PM Di Yuck- just remembered the worst....First of all I was raised by very strict rules, one of which was, you eat all of what is put in front of you. One weekend we were staying with friends of my parents and were served brains and eggs for breakfast. Needless to say, I got it down with a smile on my face, (or else), the next morning I claimed to have a stomach ache just in case something else as bad was to be served.
07-31-03, 06:58 PM MrsS Ostrich...did not love it, Blood Pudding...loved it, did not know what it was until after I eaten two servings, was too late to get squeemish then. Snails! Every chance I get! Rattlesnake, grilled, VERY good! Buffalo, quite good Goat....made me sad when I learned that I was devouring a petFrown I was only 8. Other stuff that some find exotic, , venison, sushi,abalone and quail
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07-31-03, 07:09 PM Kelleygirl Not too adventurous here---only conch in Key West.
07-31-03, 08:15 PM Wildflower63 It looks like Markyb has won the contest so far. I have to admit being jealous of your travels. But, that is what you are supposed to do, get a taste culture figuratively and literally. I think that I will nominate you for an episode of Survivor!
I'm with Mrs. S. I bet there are a lot of strange things I would eat and like. You just can't tell me what I'm eating. I still to this day am not crazy about seafood. I had an aqarium as a kid and equated it to eating my pets.
LOL@ Honiluv!! Granny will point a shotgun at you and mean it over road kill! I guess that I would rather eat road kill than some of the things I have seen posted though. Good one!
07-31-03, 08:38 PM Kwll hmmmm, all the stuff most people listed as strange I have eaten as a matter of course...Conch and sea turtle (grew up in S. Florida) Calamari I eat whenever I can, sushi, sashimi are all part of a normal diet, beefalo, antelope, deer, squirrel, not all that strange I don't think. Saw Palmetto hearts are really good when you are starving! Guess only markyb has had some of the truly strange stuff, waiting to hear from Scotty, XFED, Kirk and Koz though. 07-31-03, 10:56 PM mozart56 I like sometimes to go out into expensive resto. down here where they have a list of "epicurian food" you might wanna try, and so far it was excellent. "Paté" made from alligator tail.And I loved the "veal sweetbread" Cool (glands) to die for .
07-31-03, 11:25 PM esencia I have had Deer Jereky before. Also ground bear and bear jerkey. The bear tasted alot better than the deer. I thought the deer had an awful after taste.
But ewww...of all the stories I had to listen to about what my dad ate while in the Navy 30 some odd years ago...monkey brains, chocolate covered ants and bees...gross. But then again he actually likes that kind of stuff...
07-31-03, 11:56 PM Vapros I see some mighty exotic things listed here - but hasn't anybody else ever eaten shark? It's pretty good. First you make a roux. . . . .
08-01-03, 09:21 AM Georgia85 I've had Shark...tasted like steak!
And Mentos - let me see if I got this right now..Beefalo is an actual ANIMAL? I thought it was just combined meet. But it's a result of cross breeding? Im confused. If it's cross breeding wouldn't it be 1/2 Buffalo and 1/2 Cow??? 08-01-03, 09:45 AM MrsS I have eaten shark....just did not occur to me as being an exotic food.
08-01-03, 09:57 AM methos Yup - It's an actual animal. I assume it arose from cross-breeding. Here's an example of how it could have:
I'm sure it wasn't as straightforward as all that, but, according to the dictionary, a beefalo is a breed of cattle that is genetically 3/8 buffalo and 5/8 cow.
08-01-03, 10:57 AM Koz I don’t think anything that I have ever eaten was all that strange. Razz My father is an avid hunter. As a kid we ate a lot of “not normal” meats Roll Eyes. I have also traveled to many other countries, and make an attempt to try the local delicacies. In survival school you will eat things you never though you could. To be honest, most of it was not too bad. Big Grin
Some foods that I have eaten: (off the top of my head, not a complete list)
Deer, antelope, gazelle, water buffalo, sable, rabbit, opossum (It ain’t just for Southern folks Wink), raccoon, bear, rats, frogs, raw fish, snails, squid, sharks, octopus, bluefish, clams, seaweed, lizards, alligator, beefalo, fish eggs (not caviar), snakes, eels, turtles, boar, ants (less the chocolate coating), grasshoppers, grubs, earthworms, tree bark, and leaves.
Big Grin
08-01-03, 11:13 AM LVLF Rattlesnake. It was playing by the kids bikes so we put it out of our misery, skinned it, chunked it, battered and deep fried it. Yummers! ( We lived in California at the time.)
08-01-03, 03:55 PM koicarp
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Originally posted by Texan-In-Exile:
(Koicarp - A shiny coat? Big Grin )
Yeah !
Part DOGFISH
08-01-03, 04:03 PM Yelena The wierdest thing I've ever eaten was octopus when I went to Greece a month ago. It was...okay I guess. Nothing too special.
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Koz, guess we have chewed a lot of the same stuff buddy! I never would have thought of shark or gator tail as out of the ordinary though, almost a staple for some periods of my life! **************************************************** 08-03-03, 07:16 PM doñadiana Armadillo--not bad at all! DD (or maybe it was iguana Roll Eyes)
08-03-03, 10:36 PM Tree I ADORE calamari and escargo!
I was actually looking into starting up my own snail farm at one time, and feeding them like the Romans did with wines and spices to make them even MORE yummy!!!
Have also eaten pig's feet! My Mom used to make them because my sister was a fan....me, not so much, but I did eat them.
I think that the people who complain about calamari - aren't cooking it right! You cannot over cook or re-heat it! - turns into rubber.
Smile
08-04-03, 12:47 AM stanbee Poi -bland, silken texture
Sardine"Frames" . Japanese dish. Pleasant, salty crunchy. Baked w soy
Gefilte Fish cold fish dumplings. Looks like albino poop. Mild fish is yum w red beet horseradish
Fried Caterpillar -crunchy, peanut taste. Just the thought makes my throat contract to peanut butter fuzz.
Geoduck Sashimi (Mirugai) - looks like giant clam pizzle. Tastes better than it looks. sweet marine flavor
Fresh Abalone -good barely warmed in a sauce in sauce of swt butter, light white wine. Sprinkle w fine chopped chives & Ossetra caviar.
Escargot -don't even remind me: snails. Drooling slime. A taste like rich earth smells. An attractive texture that is a vehicle for garlic, wine, swt butter etc. You must not look at them before trying. The first time I thought my dinner partner was eating eyeballs from sockets.
Raw Clam or Oyster Still strange after all the years except the delicate Kumimoto oyster.
Raw tuna -this is surprisingly good and un-fish like as many of you know
Fried Smelt with face and bones
Smoked Sea Eel, shiverrr, very fishy
Scorpion Fish (Rascasse) -strange looking, good tasting typical ingredient in Bouillabaisse
Sweetbread pancreas or thymus of calf or lamb. Thymus is more delectable. On a bed pf creamed leeks with a truffled Port sauce. TDF.
Beef liver arghh
Lamb's tongue
Sparrows Roasted on Rosemary Skewers. - untrussed abominations with organs, beaks and all
Durian -stink fruit. smells worse than sewer fumes. Tastes better than any fruit.
Natto nasty oozing fermented soybeans, popular in Tokyo
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08-04-03, 01:02 AM gizmogram The weirdest think I've tried is a tie...between Rattlesnake and Alligator. Neither are bad, which makes me feel better, knowing that I'll survive if I'm ever stranded in the desert or a swamp Roll Eyes
Some things I just cannot bring myself to try...anything slimy like oysters...eeewwww
08-04-03, 10:23 AM gojenni714 Buffalo is wonderful. If you've never had a buffalo rib eye, well I highly recommend it!
The strangest thing I think I've eaten though would have to be ostrich. Didn't much care for it....a little on the salty side.
08-05-03, 02:22 PM Fritzzs IGUANA.....Absolutly delicious...Much better than chicken...
08-06-03, 09:51 PM undergrace I havn,t really tried any real strange foods' probally chittlins, (basically hog intestents) anyway... I see that many of you have been pretty adventurious. Big Grin
08-07-03, 04:36 AM FredPuli Laver bread is not bread but a kind of seaweed , cooked to go with a full Welsh breakfast. It tastes like , er, seaweed,but is not salty or bitter, though you might expect that.
The Welsh also serve lamb's 'fry', this ( or rather, they !) only found on male lambs. Perhaps not at breakfast if you know what it is !
'Blood pudding' is called 'black pudding' here and is found in the North , where it is another everyday breakfast dish. There is a white version seen mostly in Ireland .
Lawyers describe our legal system as like black pudding : " It is perfectly all right as seen by the consumer but, if he were to go behind the scenes and see how they did it , he'd never touch it again!" Big Grin
08-07-03, 09:29 AM Kwll Ok Fred since you brought it up...there are also "Rocky Mountain Oysters" which are bull's testicles....no I've never had them but have seen them.
08-07-03, 05:07 PM Sagus While living on the Oregon Coast I ate barnacles, tasted and chewed like rubber-bands.
08-08-03, 02:17 PM grumpybear Being part Korean I have eatin some strange things: Little tiny dried fishies Squid(dries, baked, stir fried sautee'd, and fried) Kimchee (various types) Seaweed Dog( didn't know what I was eating when I ate it)
But that's about it
08-08-03, 02:20 PM grumpybear Can someone tell me what Blood pudding is?
08-09-03, 03:48 AM FredPuli Grumpybear 'Blood pudding' appears to be the same as our 'black pudding'. In form it's like a sausage, about one and a half inches wide and is served as thick slices. It is made almost entirely from the blood of the animal (cow/ox ) and , unsurprisingly, looks almost black, It is served hot at breakfast.
Anyway, its manufacture looks messy ! Smile
Horsemeat ? Does anybody in the US eat horsemeat ? It is still to be found frequently on the menu in Switzerland, where the preference is for the young animal.
In France you still see butcher's signs for 'chevaline' to indicate this speciality. The meat itself though seems less common than it once was. When I was a student in Paris asking for the steak advertised often meant getting that. You only hsd beef steak for certain if the place said it was 'bifteck'. Just to show how common it was you sometimes saw, confusingly, 'bifteck de cheval' ( horse beefsteak') listed.
Horsemeat tastes sweeter than beef. It is still exported from the UK to France simply because there never was a market for it here.
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08-09-03, 09:16 AM mozart56 Fred , in Montreal you will find Blood pudding in any supermarket, in the meat section next to liver etc.....it's called "Boudin", just ordinary stuff overthere. Smile
08-09-03, 09:58 AM Kelleygirl No one has mentioned haggis----I'm sure someone has eaten it----maybe it's not considered strange to some. Don't think that I could touch it.
08-09-03, 12:06 PM cattywampus When I was young I practically lived on spiders. My dad had a big raspberry plot, and my job was to pick them. As all raspberry lovers know, spiders love to hide inside the really ripe ones. Since I ate more raspberries than I picked, I calculate that over the years, I've eaten 1,484,592 spiders of various sorts.
catty Razz
08-28-03, 09:34 PM LaPisLaZuLi Well, when I was a kid, my brothers used to play jokes on me and give me chocolate covered bugs (ants, grasshoppers, etc.). The joke was on them, because they tasted great!
As an adult, Ive eaten:
rabbit bear buffalo leopard shark raw salmon
09-02-03, 11:30 PM jejelale deer stew-made with the organ meat. It was really good!
09-14-03, 08:30 PM Leppi I have had so many different kinds of wierd fruits on Rosh hashana. I can't even begin to count.
09-15-03, 12:33 PM Jelp01 I once also had the occasion to have a taste of vegemite. I was told it was an acquired taste; I don't want to bother acquiring the taste for it, thank you very much! Smile
10-11-03, 11:54 AM psych major Had a friend that used to live in Mexico. He went back for a visit and brought us back some canned rattlesnake. It sat on the shelf for quite awhile. I looked at it everyday wondering what it would taste like. One day I finally broke down and opened it. It sort of looked like canned salmon, still had the bones and all in the can. I poked my fork in the can and took a tiny bite, bones and all. I have to say if I didnt know it was snake I would never have guessed. It was actually very good. I really dont think it would be something I would actually order in a restaurant, (do they actually serve that stuff?) but at least now if anybody ever tells me it tastes like chicken, I can say, no it tastes like rattlesnake Roll Eyes
11-05-03, 12:47 PM mystery250 I have eaten a cockroach in a lollipop. Down at the mall, you used to be able to buy all sorts of critters in lollipops, including, not limited to, cocroaches, crickets, grass hoppers, worms, and ants.
07-24-04, 09:06 PM cyberlaol Cockroach Eek-gee you need to be on Fear Factor!
I have eaten Octupus and a friend of mine each year goes to a Banquet where they all eat Muskrat-looks like a big ugly rat to me-He claims the Muskrat tastes like chicken-Barf!!
07-31-04, 11:28 AM DvdGStwrt Anybody here like Haggis?
08-03-04, 06:19 PM decal Do I like haggis? Do I like HAGGIS??
Well, yes.
You can even get CANNED haggis now--the FDA frowns on ye olde waye of making the stuff so these folks have come up with a much more palatable solution. They even have a vegetarian haggis--haven't tried that one, but I CAN definitely recommend the regular version.
08-10-04, 10:38 PM CincyOnTheRoad Kangaroo jerky. Horrible Elk. Very good Raccoon. Horrible
I recently caught and ate a cownose ray. They look like your typical manta ray, usually about 20-30 lbs. The wings are cut off and punched with a circular cookie cutter. Excellent. As a matter of fact, if you order "scallops" at a restaurant, you're very possibly getting ray, which are commonly referred to around here as "sea scallops".
09-03-04, 01:59 PM Elexina I've had crickets (chocolate-covered as well as spiced), and I've had shark. Plus, I've eaten at McDonalds and KFC, and there are some strange animals in that food, I'll wager!
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