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.
Is something pretty much akin to the Heimlich. About 50% of the time it’s done, ribs are cracked. Def not good.
Have a cousin whose husband trapped beaver, slow roasted it and added BBQ sauce. Thought it was shredded beef. Have had snapping turtle too.
Rattlesnake is actually quite good when fixed right. I don’t know about the eggs. Mom almost poisoned me to death on duck eggs once and even today I’m cautious with eggs.
Those 100 year old eggs are from China..they bury them in the ground and they turn black. Its like Darius fruit. Totally gross.
Eeeewwww! No thanks!
Octopus in Japan, alligator at Disney World, Kimchi in Taiwan fifty years ago - my mouth is still burning.....
Alligator wontons. They were okay.
Ditto. Im sticking with Americana meat and potatoes.
In Guam: “Try the octopus. Its delicious.”
Tasted like a mouth full of rubber bands.
“Goat stew with beans and rice, in Jamaica.”
Love me some good Jamaican goat curry.
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Frogs’ legs was probably the most bizarre thing I ever ate also. And snails. Ninth Avenue used to be a string of tiny French restaurants when I first moved to NYC and of course I had to try them all. Worked right around the corner at McGraw-Hill.
I’m not a fan of unusual food.
Had tripe in the Ironbound Section of Newark in the 70s. It was delicious. Portuguese-style. I never had it again, though.
Rubber bands is a good way to describe it. My FIL took my wife and me to a Greek restaurant that was dimly lit.
He got my wife to order octopus. She got three little octopi with their tentacles splayed out. When the lights came up, she found she had eaten only the heads. Never again.
My grandmother used to hand me a chicken foot when she was making chicken soup. Fun.
One day she took me to the chicken market. All the chickens would scream when the butcher came into the room where the cages were. They didn’t stop until he grabbed one and went away again.
I ate sushi in South Korea where the chef pulled the live fish put of the tank and cut it up right in front of all of us. That’s fresh!
At least you knew it was fresh.
I had tripe in the Mexican specialty, menudo. It was so awful that I tried it again some time later just to see if I was served a bad batch. It was still awful!
I think moose burgers in Virginia City. I have to stick to kosher animals.
It was the sauce that made it so wonderful. But I’m not afraid of tripe. I used to love something called stuffed derma that was served in Jewish delis. It was basically tripe, stuffed with some kind of mixture (recipe on Net says it was matzoh meal, flour, and schmaltz or suet). No one serves it anymore. Also every Jewish deli now serves LEAN pastrami, and they wonder why they have to close down.
Supermarkets no longer sell calves’ liver, chicken liver, kidneys, lard, schmaltz—all stuff that I used to see in earlier days in NY.
I make great tried frogs legs. Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
I checked - couldn’t find scungilli
Dog and Cat in Hong Kong back in 1997
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