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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: Fiji Hill

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

All well and good, but it will be going into that sauce willingly. When I eat baby octopus in Korea it puts up a struggle!


121 posted on 03/04/2018 12:10:59 PM PST by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: Simon Green

Dunno what it was. Some kind of mystery meat at a roadside cafeteria somewhere in Central America. Other than that, paella at Marbella’s in Panama City, Panama.


122 posted on 03/04/2018 12:11:48 PM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: Simon Green

Pretty much everything (and especially the Jell-O) served in my old college cafeteria.


123 posted on 03/04/2018 12:26:37 PM PST by PUGACHEV
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To: Simon Green

Octopus. Never again.


124 posted on 03/04/2018 12:26:40 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Simon Green

Wild boar sausage and also turtle ragout


125 posted on 03/04/2018 12:36:33 PM PST by Citizen Soldier ("And I was born to pull turnips!" Demelza Poldark)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I ate snake when I was in high school. One of the girls in my scout troop was a Green Beret. He and a couple of his colleagues took our troop camping. They caught,skinned, and cooked the snake for lunch.


126 posted on 03/04/2018 12:38:40 PM PST by kalee
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To: Simon Green

Steamed Seagull, served at a Mexican roach coach during a lunch break whilst pickin` strawberries for a living in Salinas, CA. She said it a was chicken but it was definitely seagull coz it tasted like french fries.


127 posted on 03/04/2018 12:42:56 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ((((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")))))))
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To: Simon Green

This thread is rather fortuitous ... Short Story Time
I have been wanting to build a Tongue based Chili and this thread pushed me over the edge, just got back from the store and picked up what I thought I would need ...
I did not bring my glasses and well it appears that I am now cooking Tripe (hey they both begin with the letter “T”)
So now I am making Menudo. It is going to be an adventure as I have never made it nor eaten it (so I won’t know if I did it right or not)
Hope it is supposed to be spicy because that is the part I already have done. ;^)


128 posted on 03/04/2018 12:45:00 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Did You Screw up your Life? You get a “Second Chance” every second.)
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To: super7man

A memorable place. I went toward send of May, a bit too hot and was eaten alive by the bugs.


129 posted on 03/04/2018 12:47:27 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Fiji Hill

You have a remarkable memory.


130 posted on 03/04/2018 12:51:47 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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To: Az Joe

Curried Lino at Le Perroque on Saint Maarten. Tough as a boot. Went back for the Ostrich a few days later. Out of this world.


131 posted on 03/04/2018 12:52:23 PM PST by MGG
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To: Simon Green

Fried grasshoppers at restaurant El Arrayan in Puerto Vallarta. Worth a try once.


132 posted on 03/04/2018 12:54:12 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: Simon Green

Kidney chinks on a skewer while in France...actually not bad


133 posted on 03/04/2018 1:16:30 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Simon Green

Can’t really tell you, seriously. Ate things on civic actions outings in Thailand (usually dedications of a new school or health clinic) with no idea what they were. Some I recognized as bugs or grubs, vegetables (I think) whose provenance was questionable, and meat dishes that tasted like nothing I ever ate or wanted to eat again. Since it was considered an insult to refuse what was served (you could, thank heavens, turn down seconds) I simply gritted my teeth, tamped down my gag reflex, pretended it was something else, and chowed down.


134 posted on 03/04/2018 1:17:28 PM PST by Hootowl
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Conch chowder and fritters in FL yummy, snake on a Girl Scout camping trip when I was in high school, a chocolate covered cricket but only a taste I couldn’t get the whole disgusting thing down, various sushi including sea urchin and eel.


135 posted on 03/04/2018 1:21:31 PM PST by kalee
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To: Simon Green

Veal pancreas in Paris. Blame my French, which was lousy.


136 posted on 03/04/2018 1:29:32 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Simon Green

Cricket soaked in plum sauce when I was sauced at a sushi bar. :-)


137 posted on 03/04/2018 1:37:34 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Tennessee Conservative

Rattlesnake steak isn’t bad either. I ate that at the Suwannee river folk festival once.

Oh I blotted it out til just now but i tried to eat one of those 100 year old eggs once. It was so gross I spit it out and almost hurled.


138 posted on 03/04/2018 1:46:45 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Simon Green

Pig brains and scrambled eggs with ketchup.

5.56mm


139 posted on 03/04/2018 1:50:24 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: hecticskeptic

“and it tastes like crap (think cow pie). “

You’ve tasted that too?


140 posted on 03/04/2018 2:10:15 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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