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.
“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!
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.
Pretty much everything (and especially the Jell-O) served in my old college cafeteria.
Octopus. Never again.
Wild boar sausage and also turtle ragout
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.
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.
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. ;^)
A memorable place. I went toward send of May, a bit too hot and was eaten alive by the bugs.
You have a remarkable memory.
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.
Fried grasshoppers at restaurant El Arrayan in Puerto Vallarta. Worth a try once.
Kidney chinks on a skewer while in France...actually not bad
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.
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.
Veal pancreas in Paris. Blame my French, which was lousy.
Cricket soaked in plum sauce when I was sauced at a sushi bar. :-)
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.
Pig brains and scrambled eggs with ketchup.
5.56mm
“and it tastes like crap (think cow pie). “
You’ve tasted that too?
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