What is the weirdest/ most exotic food(s) you've ever eaten?

[Ceridwen018]

I had horse in Brussels

:tsk:

 

[Scott1]

Monkey , yeah , had that when I was in Panama from a street vendor (I was kind of drunk). Then I got food poisoning from the seafood in a fancy resteraunt called La Cascada. There was a cascada coming out of me.

Hey, me too.... not at La Cascada, but in the Jungle Operations Training Center (JOTC) on the Atlantic side of Panama.... the result, unfortunately, was the same as yours!

 

[Neo-Logic]

Lol ... I win

 

[Druidus]

:tsk:

What makes a horse different from a pig (which is smarter), a cow, or a chicken?

I think I beat all. When I was in Kenya, and not a vegan, I went to a restaurant called "Carnivores". I ate zebra, warthog, ostrich, ibis, antelope, water buffalo, and a few others. Exotic enough?

Ostrich was very good, although fatter than expected.

I ate shark one time, Mako shark I think it was (Though I can't actually remember). I'm not sure if thats legal, but it was on the menu, so I assume it is, or at least was. It was really good, with a nice sauce and rice, sauteed greens. I don't know if it can be compared to a properly made jambalaya, but its certainly up there!

Sharks have a very high amount of mercury in their meat. Very dangerous, can cause brain damage, sterility, and other nasties.

 

[Neo-Logic]

Here are a list of mine. Most of these foods though, you would not know different unless someone told you what it was, in which case then you might get grossed out a bit. I consider life a journey and tasting new and different types of foods an experience. My attitude is, i'll try anything once. Coming from Asia, I think I have quiet a head start on most people whose idea of an exotic food is goat meat. For those of you who haven't tasted the foods I listed and will probably never try, i'll rate it and describe it for you so you get a feel for it. Well .. the squirmish look away!

These are the three possible ratings.
Yum!
Yuck!
Neutral

• Pegion meat - Pretty good and pretty common in many parts of the world. It may not taste like chicken, but it sure has the same texture. They're both birds afterall! Yum!
• Snake meat - Can become very rough. Tastes pretty good. Too bad it has too much bones. Yum!
• Frog meat - Very good. Sweeter than one would think. Texture is very tender. Yum!
• Eel - Excellent. Softer texture than snake meat, but much more meat per eel. It's becoming more and more common thanks to the Sushi places. It's great eats. Yum!
• Snails - Texture of a chewed food of sort. Funky smell. And they can get smiley. Yuck!
• Goat meat - Very common meat. Tastes great, tender in texture. It does have a smell to it, but that can be overpowered with herbs and spices. Yum!
• Lamb - Good taste. Very tender in texture. Has a smell but can be easily dealt with. Yum!
• Turtle - Tastes kinda like an oyster, but more bitter. Has the texture of an old wrinkly skin. Yuck!
• Pig's ear, toungue, intestines, liver, breast, brain, and hock - I've tasted them all. All can be good, but nasty if not properly prepared. The hair on the ear has to be removed. Toungue has to be cleaned like crazy. Intestines has to be cleaned out very throughly. Brain has to be picked clean of its veins and a layer of protein film on the top. Hock is very good and easy to prepare compared to other parts. This one goes both ways, but I wouldn't eat any of those except for hock and breast. They have the texture of any other meat, so they're more "normalish". Neutral!
• Dog's meat - It's a common misconception. Dog's meat isn't a common eat in Asia. It's eaten for medical purposes. In my case, my cousins, uncles, and I ate dog meat before we went on a climb on some snowy and cold place in China. Dog's meat can increase someone's bloodflow and body temperature for up to 2 months. Don't really remember what it tasted like, but the texture was no different than say pork or beef. Neutral!
• Grasshopper & Crickets - They are almost always served deep fried. Good protein snack from what I can remember. Very crispy and goes down easy. Sweeter than one might expect. Good eats. Yum!
• And perhaps my most exotic - Cow's penis - I ate this once and it was in some fancy herbal Chinese restaurant in Shanghai. It was served in soup. It was rather tasteless, but the texture was chewy and soft, much like tendon if anyone has tasted tendons before. It was served for medicinal purposese of course and my family and I were reluctant to eat it, but seeing as how our well-to-do uncle in China had graciously been hosting us and gottten this special reservation in an expensive restaurant, we complied. Neutral!

 

[Neo-Logic]

What makes a horse different from a pig (which is smarter), a cow, or a chicken?

Because a horse is more useful than a pig. Pigs are only good for ... finding truffuls.

 

[Bastet]

From the looks of it, some of what people consider 'exotic' is entirely dependent on location. For example, a couple of people have mentioned shark - but you'll find that in any fish and chip shop here, only they call it "flake".

Growing up on a farm, we ate what we grew - goat was on the menu, as was goose, duck, etc. Lamb is not an uncommon meat here either. We used goose and duck eggs for cooking. Something I remember eating as a kid that I wouldn't touch now, is 'lamb's fry' - which consists of lamb's kidney and liver, chopped up and fried. I know I liked the taste, but the thought of eating it grosses me out now... I've had emu and kangaroo (tried them once at a fair), and venison (deer). Someone tried to get me to eat a witchety grub once, but I wouldn't come at that lol.

 

[Scuba Pete]

I agree Bastet... I have had venison, buffaloe and kangaroo as well. I would not consider the first two exotic. Australians would not consider the last one exotic.

As for shark... yum! That's a staple here in Florida.

 

[Bastet]

I agree Bastet... I have had venison, buffaloe and kangaroo as well. I would not consider the first two exotic. Australians would not consider the last one exotic.

As for shark... yum! That's a staple here in Florida.

I gotta tell you, I'm Australian, and I consider kangaroo to be 'exotic' (or weird, whatever lol). It's not a staple meat, and the portion of the population who have not even tried it would far outweigh those who have (and definitely outweighs those who eat it on a regular basis).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Sharks have a very high amount of mercury in their meat. Very dangerous, can cause brain damage, sterility, and other nasties.

The type of shark I ate had a very bitter taste to it. I only a ate a few bites before I couldn't force myself to swallow another bite. Maybe the mercury was to blame.

 

[Unedited]

I agree with Bastet that it’s highly dependent on location. I remember going home to see my grandmother and telling her all about this weird food called “pizza.” I love trying different foods though and have had a lot of the things mentioned here. Lamb’s probably my favourite thing that’s been mentioned, but as I can get it at the mall, I don’t find it being exotic. I do love whale too, but that's hard to come by. I've never had any meat I deemed disgusting. The only thing I won't touch is beef.

• And perhaps my most exotic - Cow's penis - I ate this once and it was in some fancy herbal Chinese restaurant in Shanghai. It was served in soup. It was rather tasteless, but the texture was chewy and soft, much like tendon if anyone has tasted tendons before. It was served for medicinal purposese of course and my family and I were reluctant to eat it, but seeing as how our well-to-do uncle in China had graciously been hosting us and gottten this special reservation in an expensive restaurant, we complied. Neutral!

Aren't cows female? That's gotta be really exotic.