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What's the oddest, most "exotic" dish you've eaten at a restaurant?
Me | 03/04/18 | Simon Green

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.


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To: cpdiii

“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.


101 posted on 03/04/2018 10:49:45 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: Simon Green

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.


102 posted on 03/04/2018 10:57:52 AM PST by CondiArmy
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To: Simon Green

Gator Scalopini


103 posted on 03/04/2018 11:02:36 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Az Joe

I was in San Blas in about 1973. I was 19. It was absolutely beautiful. Don’t know what it is like now.


104 posted on 03/04/2018 11:05:06 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Simon Green

bttt


105 posted on 03/04/2018 11:11:49 AM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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To: Simon Green

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”.


106 posted on 03/04/2018 11:18:41 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Simon Green

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.


107 posted on 03/04/2018 11:19:21 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the political party of the undead)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Might I inquire as to the customary fix for tentacle suckers vacuum-sealed to the tourist gullet?


108 posted on 03/04/2018 11:36:41 AM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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To: Simon Green

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!


109 posted on 03/04/2018 11:37:27 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Goat curry is what I often order when I eat at the Curry Hut in Fullerton, Calif.
110 posted on 03/04/2018 11:37:52 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Simon Green

Monkey brains in a little place in Mauritius, 1982. Didn’t order seconds.


111 posted on 03/04/2018 11:40:25 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Simon Green

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.


112 posted on 03/04/2018 11:43:46 AM PST by blondiegoodbadugly
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To: Simon Green
I've eaten chitlins at a Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas, Nev., which specialized in the cuisine of Hunan Province.

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.

113 posted on 03/04/2018 11:44:26 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Junk Silver
“San nakji” Freshly chopped up baby octopus, still squirming and wriggling.

I have a bag of baby octopus in my freezer. It will be going into a pasta sauce.

114 posted on 03/04/2018 11:46:44 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Simon Green

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.


115 posted on 03/04/2018 11:50:54 AM PST by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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To: Simon Green

Tripe soup cooked over an open fire in Montana.


116 posted on 03/04/2018 11:51:29 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I was in Holland and they fed us horse.

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.

117 posted on 03/04/2018 11:54:00 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Simon Green

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.


118 posted on 03/04/2018 11:58:18 AM PST by Tailback
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To: eCSMaster
I like to eat squid ink pasta with seafood like scungilli. Both can be had at Claro's Italian Market, near my home.
119 posted on 03/04/2018 11:59:46 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Simon Green

Haggis in Scotland. Never again!


120 posted on 03/04/2018 12:01:04 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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