| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/13/2008 5:39:22 AM | I see alot of similar things to what I've tried, some that I haven't and one that I have tried, but hasn't been mentioned.
Canned Camel- canned in a white wine. Very fine grained meat, falls apart in the mouth, with the wine it give an odd after-taste, not unpleasant, but with the way the meat falls apart it feels like sand on your tongue, funny since it's from a dessert dweller.
Tried horse once, never again........ camel.... maybe. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/13/2008 6:40:01 AM | | Put me on fear factor I'd win the nasty food part anytime BUT the nasteist thing I had was a bite of undercooked mountain oysyer,just couldnt get past the where has this been part. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/14/2008 8:37:01 AM | Octopus sashimi - GAH!! never again.. rubbery, yuck!
Squid sashimi - WORSE! like chewing an art gum eraser and too big to swallow whole! Talk about torture... no taste to speak of, although the beers probably helped w/that.
Sea Cucumber - as opposed to an earlier poster's opinion, I did not like this.. not one bit... nasty.
As a kid my mom and/or grandmother made a Polish dish we pronounced Stoogelina - a google search says its really spelled Studzienina. As one website said: "a gelatine extract of rendered pigs feet". Looks and tastes yucky to a kid.
I used to travel quite a bit to Taiwan in the early 90's and the plant cafeteria was renowned by the locals as one of the worst they'd seen.
We once had sliced pig ears. You know how pig ears as treats for dogs are hard rawhide like things? Not much different when cooked... not sure what you were supposed to eat out of that.
They made what I called Bone Stew which appeared to be poultry neck bones in a gravy. I never could find meat anywhere.
Finally, there was a conversation I had with my Taiwanese counterpart "Hank":
"Hank, what's that?" (Looked like a very dark reddish sauce - couldn't see what was in it)
(Hank has to read the card to see what it is) "You don't want that"
"Why, what is it?"
"G****, You _don't_ want that."
"Hank, I want to be the good traveller here, and experience your culture... what is it?"
Hank sighs. "Ok, its 'congealed pigs blood'".
"ah............... I'll just go with the rice".
"Good choice G****"
Not long after, I made frequent lunch trips to the local McDonalds. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/14/2008 8:36:03 PM | Ah, I knew I had forgotten one.
Durian. I tried it when staying in Singapore. Its a big fruit (bigger than a football) with a heavy spikey skin (you could probably use it as the swinging part of a medieval flail). They stink. Bad. Rotted garbage bad. Even uncut they stink. In Singapore, its illegal to take them on the subway - there are signs that say "No Durian". Did I say above that it stinks? Dear God. It doesn't taste much better in my opinion. The locals mostly loved it. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/15/2008 10:59:34 PM | ^^^^ I bought frozen durian at the local Asian store. I made sorbet out of it. I'd always heard about how bad they smelled but the frozen fruit was okay, kind of like banana. Maybe it loses something in the freezing.
Over the weekend I had elk chili for the first time. It was good, like lean beef. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/16/2008 3:03:29 PM | Many foods don't really phase me, I've had raw goats blood that was slightly coagulated and still warm. Pork lungs and the digestive tract I've had an enjoyed.
I've had my fair share of bugs, maggots and all that good stuff. I also had birds nest and coconut soup in Thailand. Kangaroo, elk and all those wild animals I do enjoy, have to be eaten rare though since there so lean. But horse face or armadillo tacos were the weirdest things I've eaten. Stuff like durian, eye sockets and all the offal I ate growing up as it was cheap and affordable. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/17/2008 5:57:03 PM | I have eaten:
Baby Kangaroo
Squirrel Pot Pies
Squirrel brains sauteed in garlic butter and served on ritz crackers
Elk
Bison
Rattlesnake
Venison
Zebra
Raw sea urchin roe topped with a raw quail egg
Wild Boar
Sucked the raw tamale from a live lobster. ummm taste like an oyster only better
That's about all | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/17/2008 5:59:23 PM | Frog legs excellent
Rockie mountain oysters Turkey is best
Moose Excellent
Beaver Tail! is excellent tastes like goose. the rest is like poor pig
Octopus (pulpo) horrible like eating a rubber hose
Bighorn sheep the best
caribou pretty good
oysters great when fresh I mean you harvest
raw tuna good when still moving
Did you ever eat chicken hawk? No what's it taste like? Oh about like Owl. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/17/2008 6:18:28 PM | My dad used to have this bad habit of eating my food!
One morning he ate some of my custard tarts! But there were
some steaks on the rack above that dripped blood all over the
tarts! He is kind of clueless sometimes and I wonder if he has
any taste buds at all! lol He enjoyed the tarts but thought the
sauce was somewhat strange! I've never laughed so hard and
strangely he has never touched my food since! | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/17/2008 6:54:39 PM | Geez, almost everyone is listing only meat courses. How about the veggies?
Anyone else love stinging nettles as much as I do?
Can you tell the diff between hen-of-the-woods & chicken-of-the-woods?
Both mushrooms, and both excellent.
Nannyberries anyone? aka wild raisins Good snack
Fiddleheads! Ahhh, Fiddleheads! (Ostrich fern tops....excellent)
Fresh thistle stalks and Spiderwort stalks are great too.
Pine needle tea....an aquired taste
Sumac fruit tea....delicious and refreshing
Baby milkweed pods. Kickass vegetable!!
These are just a few of what I've enjoyed.
Here's a few I didn't enjoy:
Skunk cabbage...raw...burned my mouth REALLY BAD!
Hot pepper mushroom...tiny taste raw...burned my mouth REALLY BAD!!
Highbush cranberries...raw...way too sour!
Boneset tea...nasty bitter, but a strong, effective cold remedy.
Acorns...raw...why didn't they tell me you gotta prepare these things properly to make them edible?
Catfish cheeks would be my choice for a meat course. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/18/2008 1:57:36 AM | Wow...quite a list of stuff so far. I think I've had a good 50% or more of those listed so far. Never really gave it a second thought. (No real bugs, rodents or Aussie animals though, no dogs or cats.)
A lot of it was normal to eat growing up in Hawaii...Stuff like fresh and dried abalone, squid, octobus, opihi, pipipi (both small mollusks found on coastal rocks), fern shoots, shark fin and bird's nest soup, escargot (one of my favorites), frog legs, rabbit, various seaweeds like limu, and the thick green fuzzy stubby one I can't recall the name of...Fish eyeballs and brains, beef tongue and heart were "ok"...the tongue had sort of a crunchy texture to it though. I liked it all, except liver - which I classify as strange.
Even made steak tartare at home in the 1970's with raw ground meat, lemon juice, pepper, salt and onion cut into petals. You use the onion to scoop or dip some of the meat. It wasn't bad at all once you got the taste for it - I made it a couple times more. Wouldn't eat it now, given all the wierdness with the food supply.
But the very worst thing I can recall eating was Filipino Blood Pudding at an office party. It was in a casserole dish. It was brown. It was cold...The lady kept calling it "pudding".
Hey! Pudding goes with cake, right? So my partner and I waited until dessert to spoon a good helping onto our cake plates. Blood pudding DOES NOT go well with cake.
It tastes like -blood. And our dessert tasted like blood-soaked cake.
Only after we finished gagging did she tell us it was Pig's Blood Pudding.
I didn't know nutria were edible. They're all over the rivers in the Willamette Valley and considered pests, though I'd never eat anything, that itself ate anything from the Willamette River. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/18/2008 8:23:00 PM | I had Bear meat once.
My uncle shot a bear in Canada, froze the meat.
I spent the weekend with him, he cooked it and it tasted salty as Hell ! ! !
AFTER I ate my LARGE piece, I was trying to be tough and not complain, he took a bite of his and said he couldnt eat it. He found out that he used Baking soda instead of flour to cook it. Aarrggg
I have also had
Rattlesnake
Turtle Mull
when I was a kid | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/18/2008 11:48:57 PM | | Upon opening our station in Beijing, I was invited out with some of my new co-workers to dinner, and I was offered a century egg. Not wanting to insult my hosts hospitality, I tried it. It was definitely an interesting flavor. It's not something I'd order on a first choice basis, but not something that I'd turn down if eating with a host family either. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/20/2008 5:56:46 PM | My mother used to make the wierdest things....
Headcheese..... yuck!
Beef Tongue..... very long.....boiled and skinned..... disgusting!
Ox Tail Soup.... Gross!
Pan Fried Eel.... ewww... and no, it does not taste like chicken!
Mincemeat..... Yuck!
Bear Steak.... greasy and gross!
and believe it or not... I grew up in the beautiful Annaoplis Valley, NS... not the back woods.
No wonder my favorites are bread, cheese and fruit these days.
I tried octopus in Cuba.. done of the BBQ... nothing to jump up and down about!! | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/20/2008 7:52:57 PM | I've made oxtail soup and thot it was quite good ... of course, with soup of any kind, you can more-or-less put anything into it that you like ...
I love mincemeat also but I use about half mincemeat and half apples! we used to make venison mincemeat but that just tasted like any mincemeat ... again with the apples to soften the taste!
I'm afraid that I have enuf trouble eating what people "normally" eat to be very ventursome when it comes to unusual foods! "brave" for me is actually TRYING the sauce on restaurant dishes (I always order them "on the side") ... I had a bass with lemon sauce recently that was fabulous ...
I'm apparently NOT an adventurer when it comes to food ...  | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/20/2008 8:09:19 PM | I' VE EATEN ....EMU TASTEY
BLK BEAR PEPPERONI AND GROUND UP i MADE LASAGNA
BUFFALLO/BISON STEAKS, BURGERS, LASAGNA, MADE BUFFALO BALLS LOL
MADE RIBS ,ROAST
MOOSE/ ELK/ DEER
IGUANA
AND SOME WEIRD SAUSAGE MEAT IN MEXICO | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/20/2008 8:11:14 PM | I admire all posters who have tried the foods they've listed..........good for you!!~ I wish I had half your courage...............
The most 'exotic' foods I've ever tried are:
Moose meat - which was really quite good
Duck - too much dark meat & too greasy for my liking.........
Emu - way too dry | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/20/2008 8:55:42 PM | Raw eel in a sushi bar.. not to good
Tripe in some forgotten out of the way country bar.. It was food
My mothers kidney stew,god that smelled bad while cooking.... tasted pretty good
Had a recipe for woodchuck stew but never used it. Keep an open mind, its all about the experience. | |
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| Strange foods you have eaten, and did you like them?
Posted: 9/21/2008 8:27:39 AM |
I had baby octopus once. Makes my head sping around just thinking about it. Yuck! Oh yeah, another Singaporean thing.... we (well not me so much) used to eat fried baby octopus in a sweet sauce there. We joked that they were Singaporean cracker jack.  | |
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