Posted on 03/04/2018 8:28:38 AM PST by Simon Green
In my case, I'd have to say either whale at a restaurant in Iceland, or fried crickets when I was in Zambia.
The whale was delicious. The bugs....not so much.
“One of the meats in Parilla Mista Argentina (a mixed grill) is intestine stuffed with Pate and grilled. It is delicious.”
Is that the one they serve at the table on an hibachi grill? I was there around 20 years ago. My hosts to me to a parilla joint on Florida. They were all laughing when I ate it. I thought it was pretty good.
Dog (not too bad), Horse (terrible, extremely gamey), Live Octopus (but chopped up, not whole like Koreans do it), Silk Worm Pupa. But the wort was Fermented Skate. Tastes like ammonia....because it is. Skates urinate thru their skin.
Gator Scalopini
I was in San Blas in about 1973. I was 19. It was absolutely beautiful. Don’t know what it is like now.
bttt
Live octopus tenacles in JapAn They stretched out the leg, then.... chop chop chop chop! We ate the pieces as they were still wriggling. All the while, workers stood behind us to assist in case a sucker sticks to your throat on the way down. Ugh
“Sweetbreads” in Argentina we’re pretty disgusting too. Hint : they’re nothing about “bread”.
Pasta with squid ink-based sauce at a Sheraton in Dallas.
It looked and tasted exactly as you would think, black and fishy.
I don’t think I’d order it again.
Might I inquire as to the customary fix for tentacle suckers vacuum-sealed to the tourist gullet?
Cow tongue, head cheese, pickled pig’s feet, Klub, lutefisk (a delicacy prized the world over), blood pancakes... my canines are straining to come out!
Monkey brains in a little place in Mauritius, 1982. Didn’t order seconds.
alligator, octopus, shark, Rocky Mtn oysters (bull and pig), lamb fries, frog legs, rabbit and squirrel. Someone else mentioned rabbit, so I guess I can mention squirrel too.
I'm pretty sure that's also what I ate at a Chinese fast food eatery across from the University of Southern California. The dish was simply labeled "beef"--and it was quite tasty. The food there was better than Panda Express, but the shop disappeared when the food court was demolished to make way for one more upscale.
I have a bag of baby octopus in my freezer. It will be going into a pasta sauce.
I once—I emphasize ONLY once—talked a bunch of business associates attending an out of town conference to try what was adverised as a genuine Norwegian smorgasbord.
It consisted mainly of various types of dried and oil saturated fish. But the specialty of the house was the entrtee of whale steak instead of some reasonably familiar item like broiled swordfish. Anyway, I talked everyone into going for the whale steak with the argument “when are we going to get this opportunity again.”
When it was served, it looked good, but the taste was disturbingly similar to calfliver marinated in fish oil. To say odd is too vastly understate the experience.
I wound up having to pay the whole bill.
Tripe soup cooked over an open fire in Montana.
In 1962, while preparing to dine at a restaurant in Sweden, we noted that the special that evening on the English-language menu was labeled "force meat." Concerned that this might be a misspelling of "horse meat," we asked a few questions before we decided to order it. Turns out that it's a type of beef sausage.
Goat eyeball soup (corba) in Istanbul, Turkey. My Kurdish friend dared me to get it thinking I wouldn’t eat it. The soup was good, but the eyeballs....lets just say when the first one popped in my mouth, I almost didn’t hold it together. I finished it all though. Lots of beer helped.
Haggis in Scotland. Never again!
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