Most adventurous meals?
Inspired by the topic below about what we would like to eat - I want to know - what are the craziest things you have eaten? How were they?
I've eaten dog soup in Korea, frogs' legs in paris, raw seal in Northern Canada (along with various other wild meats like moose, bison, caribou, buffalo, muskox and muskrat) but thats about it.
What have you eaten thats off the beaten track?
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Well lets see... I've had cow brain, about every piece of edible flesh on a pig, fried grasshoppers in thailand, ostrich, emu, buffalo, a lot of wild game, i'm sure there's more but I can't think of them right now... none of which were terrible or inedible at all.
kitchenlove at 6:36PM on 08/01/07
I've had smoked raccoon. It wasn't too bad. It seemed like the entire critter was dark meat.
PhotoKirk at 7:29PM on 08/01/07
I would eat human before I'd eat dog. Kinder, more loyal...
Barbara Hanson at 12:09AM on 08/02/07
Yeah, eating dog was one of the more traumatic experiences of my eating career. I would describe it as a fundamental loss of innocence (that tasted like pot roast). However the dogs they eat in Korea are not pets at all - a special breed only for eating that are quite different from that little yorkie cuddled in your lap.
I didn't really want to eat it, but was bullied a bit by my visiting danish friend (we could only order a portion for two). I think I had 2 bites.
That being said, its not still haunting me. It happened. I've accepted it.
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handtomouth at 3:27AM on 08/02/07
I've had every bits of beef intestines, cow's brains... they're as normal as the meat itself here in Indonesia. Even though most people (who are not squeamish, i.e. foreigners) love it, I could care less for most of them.. except for tripe (the stomach lining) and lungs. They're good, really..
I'm also quite adventurous, so I'd order anything that looks the least ordinary, be it just an ingredients or combo.
winny at 7:43AM on 08/02/07
I've had still-wiggling skewered shrimp in China, as well as skewered shrimp cooked in rock salt. They tasted like drowning and splinters.
Anyone out there who's had balut? A Filipina friend was describing its ... attributes to me.
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handtomouth at 8:02AM on 08/02/07
N - drowning and splinters? I just almost spit out my tea laughing.
Probably the most adventurous food I've had is alligator (tastes like chicken).
ceforrester at 9:10AM on 08/02/07
Looked at objectively, rattlesnake and alligator. But the food that *scared* me the most (I was quite young) was my first raw oyster. That took quite a leap of faith...and, boy, am glad I took it!
Barbara Hanson at 9:30AM on 08/02/07
Well, let's see, I have tried shark, alligator (tasted like chicken), fried possum (tasted like fried pork chunks, but it was more moist), almost anything that can be chew from cow, sheep, goat, pig and chicken.
But I think that the most off track stuff I have tried were ant egss, sauteed with garlic, onions and parsley. They are really good.
And also I tried cumiles or chinches, a bug that must be eaten alive to fully appreciate its flavor. Once I was over the gag factor and I blocked my brain to avoid getting a gut reaction from the feeling that something was crawling inside my mouth, I have to concede that they had a great taste, kind of wild cherry with a hint of saltiness.
ktonltd at 3:36PM on 08/02/07
I had Guinea pig in South America. It was wonderful!! it tasted like dark duck meat.
waterbaby at 6:48PM on 08/02/07
I forgot that I had shark pate and fried alligator (not together, but I ate both years ago). Since I'm laughably terrified of sharks and can't even look at pictures of them, it felt like a triumph, although I thought the taste was nothing remarkable.
The alligator, eaten near Okeefenokee Swamp, tasted like gamy, rubbery chicken.
I think it's interesting that 'craziest food' discussions always center around creepier/unusual meat. I mean, I ate Kool-Aid pickles when I was back in Atlanta over the winter holidays. Those were definitely among the weirdest things I've ever tried. But they didn't leap to the fore when I first thought about the question.
handtomouth at 8:13AM on 08/03/07
Oh, and that was me, N, from Hand to Mouth, with the pickles and the sharks.
Hmmm. Don't say that sentence too often ... it sounds like something out of Lewis Carroll, or Hunter S. Thompson.
handtomouth at 8:15AM on 08/03/07
I tried shark...it was rubbery and nasty...blech! Shark must be one of those things you have to cook a certain and exacting way...because I pan seared it and it was just awful. ;p
cheffy at 1:02PM on 08/03/07
kool-aid pickles? crazy.
Actually when I was young, I would occasionally put ice-tea crystals on vanilla ice cream... but that doesn't seem so crazy
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handtomouth at 7:30AM on 08/04/07
When I was a kid, we went for a walk up in the woods to pick huckleberries and ran across a rattlesnake under one of the bushes. My aunt, a cop, blew it away with her service revolver. Then my dad and two aunts took it back to grandma's kitchen, cleaned it and fried it. It was pretty tough.
I guess it isn't so odd to eat rattlesnake, but my family is obviously quite odd.
lindseyn at 4:46PM on 08/06/07
I eat a lot of weird things, like olives with whipped cream and peanut putter. Or, pizza with chocolate sauce.
reginalibintia at 4:56PM on 08/19/07
Reindeer in Sweden. As a sandwich. It was pretty good, but I couldn't help feeling a little sorry for Donner or Blitzen, or whoever.
thebrokedown at 12:37AM on 09/12/07