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#1
08-18-1999, 08:30 AM
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Here in America we are pretty limited with the kinds of meat we eat.
Has anyone ever tried dog, rat, snake, or kangaroo? How about live octopus, live lobster, or raw liver? Or raw beef even, it's a delicacy in Japan and other countries, like France. How about animal brains and animal hoofs, or intestines and stomachs and ears even? The Chinese philosophy is anything with its back facing the sun. There's a lot more out there than McD's. ------------------ ¾È ³ç, ÁÖ µ¿ ÀÏ 
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#2
08-18-1999, 08:40 AM
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Yeah, but anything the French and Japanese eat has got to be suspect. The Japanese will wipe out an entire species just to eat its tail. Who wants that?
Alligator has a very strong fish taste. Racoon was odd, but that might have been the stew. I'm rather fond of shark, octopus and squid. And while I can't be 100% certain, I'm fairly sure I've had horse.
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#3
08-18-1999, 09:06 AM
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I had kangaroo when I was in Australia. I also had emu but that's not too hard to get in America.
As for the taste of kangaroo...I had a bite of deer several years later (actually, I was tricked into eating this. I was told it was something else. When I found out that it was deer, I was pretty angry), deer reminded me of kangaroo. At the time I was in Australia, I described it as a gamey tasting beef. I've had octopus also. My boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and he took me to one of his favorite Japanese restaurants. He ordered some kind of dish with tiny marinated octopi. That was like a tasty rubberband. I don't think I'd eat another because I didn't like the texture.
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#4
08-18-1999, 09:23 AM
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Not really exotic to some, but: Squid. Very rubbery texture but good.
When I was in Korea, I ate at a little stand in the Tongdemun(sp) (East Gate Market) in Seoul that this little lady had. I'm not quite sure what the meat was (maybe dog?????) but it was fabulous and HOOOOOOOOOOOT! Took the skin off my tongue. Yummy!
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#5
08-18-1999, 09:37 AM
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Had some tongue and tripe and horse while in Italy. The squid and octopus there were wonderful, but I don't consider that too exotic. One of the strangest things for me was broiled bone marrow. I had this in France, they just brought me a leg bone of a cow that was split down the middle and broiled. You scooped out the marrow and spread it on some crouton-like bread. Tasted like beef jelly.
Had some mystery meat while in college, have NO idea what that was.
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#7
08-18-1999, 10:25 AM
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Had "Rocky Mountain Oysters" once. Tasted just like liver. If you don't know what they are, ask a freind.
I will eat any animal product (and have been known to) and generally enjoy it greatly. I have eaten raw (but dead) octopus, which is among my favorite sushi, but I have heard that live octopus is a real delicacy. Chances are, aside from animals primarily kept as pets, or vermin, I have eaten or am willing to eat nearly every kind of animal. Ostrich was not unlike beef, but very dry, kind of akin to the relationship between "turkey bacon" and real bacon. Bison was pretty good, quite juicy and flavorful, but otherwise indistinguishible from a good cut of beef. I have been known to visit a "raw bar" or two in Boston, and perhaps one of the most unique eating experiences is the "Maryland Soft-Shell Crab Sandwich." Lift the top bun, and they eyes look back at you. ------------------ Jason R Remy "No amount of legislation can solve America's problems." -- Jimmy Carter (1980)
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#8
08-18-1999, 11:41 AM
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Chocolate covered ants and termites - I think they were fried first, and then covered with chocolate. They tasted like chocolate covered potato chips with a mild but strange aftertaste. These were not the little ants and termites that you usually see, either. They were about an inch long, and looked rather creepy. I've heard that insects, especially termites, are supposedly very high in protein.
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#9
08-18-1999, 11:49 AM
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Buffalo was very good, Beaver I am not too keen on, Rattle snake was okay bit greasy I thought. Field mice are tender but a lot of work for a small portion. Deep fried dew worms...disgusting.
Squid I 'll pass from now on, but shark is great bar-b-qued ------------------ Unforgiven
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#10
08-18-1999, 11:52 AM
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Cooked, not raw: giraffe, crocodile, zebra, and antelope (all at one sitting.) The zebra was very sweet (although somewhat gamey).
The worst dish I've ever heard of, but not tasted, is a Philippine delicacy which is basically a fertilized chicken egg, with the embryo not yet hatched. They eat the whole thing -- little beak and legs, tiny little down feathers, and all. Sounds dreadful.
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#12
08-18-1999, 11:59 AM
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I had a moose roast monday night...yummy!
I had shark twice, once it was supreme...the second time, it tasted like metal, and I spit it out. Lobster every summer...to die for. Atlantic salmon...best on earth. I love eel. My favorite has to be bbq moose steak, the outer edges get well done, and with the right spices are like jerky, and the inside just a hint of pink...so tender. well I know what I am taking out of the freezer for supper.
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#13
08-18-1999, 01:25 PM
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I had ostrich, but must have been at a better restaurant than the one Jayron went to, as it was delicious. Like roast beef, not at all like fowl.
My father ate live-monkey brains, a la "Hannibal," in the Philippines during WWII. He couldn't recall what it tasted like, as the experience itself was rather, umm, overwhelming. I had a professor who said he once ate people, on some island, also in wartime, and that it tasted like pork. I strongly suspect he was just trying to scare us into getting our homework in on time, though . . .
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#14
08-18-1999, 02:00 PM
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I have tried:
eel - good gator - OK, but kind of gamey kangaroo - very gamey steak tartare - very good squid - wonderful! fried, grilled, whatever. cracklin cornbread (cornbread with pig intestines added for flavor) - Yum! turtle - makes great soup I turned down rattlesnake, but only because it was boiled. I generally do not care for boiled meat. ------------------ The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. -- E. Grebenik
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#15
08-18-1999, 02:03 PM
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from the posts,the things i have not had;rat(squirell is a tree rat with a 'sugar daddy' though),no live animal, hooves? had feet but hooves?, how you eat that?,I hate any thing that lives between two shells raw or cooked won't say molluscs caus octo and squid ok,never had a mouse,or dew worm,no girrafe etc.(had pronghorn lots),i don't even wanta SEE one of those eggs,no monkey brains either,yall have probably had shark a lot and don't know it we buy it a lot no bones even in the biggest piece,never devoured a people,
I guess the most "exotic' that I HAVE had would be whale just because it is hard to get. If it is in a posting and I didn't list it here I have at least tasted it. ------------------ "............"-Marx
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#16
08-18-1999, 02:58 PM
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When I was in Japan we went to a formal lunch with my friends bosses -- part of the reason we were there. I sat next to one of the big shots, and faced a series of things I could not identify. I asked him about one, but his response was "it's very expensive." Who knows what I've tasted? (but none of it was alive)
------------------ The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around.
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#17
08-18-1999, 03:19 PM
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I was watching one of those HBO sex shows, and this lady saved here placenta after she have birth and, not only did SHE eat it, she threw a party and had a chef cook up some placenta dishes and here friends and family ate it. Placenta pate, placenta soup, grilled and barbecued placenta...
It was on some show, and was not allowed to be aired in England, because it was considered canabalism. Kinda wish it was banned in the States, as well.
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#18
08-18-1999, 03:27 PM
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We had an Air Force survival school instructor come to a convocation at our high school (a looong time ago!) and tell us about eating insects in order to survive. Several of us tried eating ants (the little-bitty ones) and they weren't too bad. They are sour from the formic acid they contain. I doubt we could ever have eaten enough to get any nourishment from them, though. I ate a dried grasshopper in a similar setting but it was an enormous struggle to do it.
On the lighter side, we would usually crunch the ants between our teeth rather than squish them beforehand -- once one avoided my incisors and bit me on the tongue! How's that for live food? ------------------ "non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
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#20
08-18-1999, 03:44 PM
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I'm not proud of this, but I have seen a placenta cooked and eaten on British TV (for some reason I remember it vividly!).
I thought squid (called kalamari by the Greeks) was a pretty standard dish. It's usually served fried in batter here. My mate in the army says most insects are high in protein. Finally I went to Australia soon after Jaws came out and asked for shark - the waitress got huffy and said they didn't serve it.
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#22
08-18-1999, 09:46 PM
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#24
08-18-1999, 11:15 PM
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How in the world do you eat LIVE lobster and octopus? I mean, I can see raw, but LIVE?
*picturing this octopus on the table moving around and someone with a knife and fork* trisha ------------------ He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein
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#25
08-18-1999, 11:28 PM
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Re: placenta...I'm pretty sure I saw this too. Either that or someone else told me about it and the images I'm getting thinking about this are the same ones I got when I was told about it initially. Call me closed-minded but I ain't eatin' nothin' that's trying to crawl away from me.
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#26
08-18-1999, 11:39 PM
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As for live octopus, I've never seen it at a restaurant. But I've gone fishing with some of my friends who like to spear octopus. After the catch, they drop the octopus in boiling water, which does not kill it but weakens it greatly, pull it out quickly and cut it up and dip it in hot sauce. The tentacles are still wriggling as you chew on it. ------------------ ¾È ³ç, ÁÖ µ¿ ÀÏ
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#27
08-19-1999, 12:17 AM
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Well, I've had some 'odd' stuff, but nothing that you can't find if you look hard enough.
Squid - yummy Octopus - Was served in a sauce made form its ink. In fact, that was the selling point for me. Wasn't bad, but the ink tasted.. well.. like ink. Or old oil. Or something you'd expect a thick black sauce to taste like. Ostrich - Got a free sample over the net. Viva la internet Escarot - Overrated. Tasted like plugs of rubber in garlic sauce. Not horrible, but nothing I'd have on my last meal before execution tray. Frog legs - Tastes like chicken. 'Nuff said Live oysters - Yummy, in the phlegmy sort of way. I don't expect to ever swallow semen in my lifetime, but I'd imagine the texture isn't far off. Beef tounge - Like it. Tastes like beef sans bone and fat Raw beef - mainly because anytime my friend's wife insists that we fondue, I get bored waiting for my food to cook one bite at a time and start eating the meat raw. ------------------ "I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn't."
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#29
08-19-1999, 12:44 AM
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Well me and a few freinds crashed a plane in the Andies...but we don't talk about that...
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#30
08-19-1999, 12:53 AM
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hey papabear...where ya been,
topo...really? I havn't had eel for years, my dad used to ice fish it, and it would be frozen when he brought it home, I can picture him skinning it, me & him were the only ones who would eat it, mom& little brother were disgusted.
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#32
08-19-1999, 01:47 AM
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For me it would be squirrel kinda like dark meat chicken, goat very stringy.
The chicken egg thing is usually a duck egg and it's called a "bahloot" im sure t misspelled that but my dictionary wont even come close. It's a fertilized egg that has been buried for about two weeks and allowed to partially incubate. At least this is the story I got from the guys I know who lived in the Phillippines. Anyone have first hand knowledge? My vote this would be the winner hands down.
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#33
08-19-1999, 02:17 AM
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I had someone dare me to eat bahloot (I think the spellings close enough). She didn't eat it personally, but a lot of her relatives did. I told her that I generally eat anything when I'm drunk, and she offered to bring me some.
Well, she never did, and I'm kinda glad. ------------------ ¾È ³ç, ÁÖ µ¿ ÀÏ
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#34
08-19-1999, 05:04 AM
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The word for the duck eggs is "balut".The duck Egg is allowed to incubate for several weeks. Just enough time so the chick is in there, but not long enough for the chick to start getting it's feathers.I think they cook it (not sure).I have not tried it (my relatives dont eat it), but i hear it tastes something like scrambled eggs (Yum!). You also are told not to eat the beak because it's hard (you spit it out). Also, you have to drink the liquid in the egg first
 . Oh and relatives have told me that you never look at it first! Usually it's eaten with beer.Stuff i have had is: Dinaguan (Dee-nah-gwahn)- Filipine blood stew. Usually has pork mixed in and with other stuff or alone. I love it served over white rice. (at least how the neighbors prepare it). We call it Chocolate meat to trick non Filipinos who havent had it before LOL. Kare-Kare (Kah-ray Kah-ray)- is usually oxtail stew, but i have had it with tripe (shudder), but it can be made with goatmeat. It tastes good but the texture of the tripe puts me off. It is served with Bagoong (bah-go-ohng), which is these small fermented shrimps. A pinch is enough for flavor (other than that is too strong). Dried squid - actually it's quite tasty. Slightly salty, but dont smell it first. eel - very good. Quite tender and buttery. I usually have it in sushi, and it's grilled teriyaki style. Occasionally it has a slight fishy taste, but good. Fish roe - it's usually on my favorite sushi - tempura maki. Raw Fish - Also usually in sushi. It has no flavor at all. I have had whitefish, and also tuna. Patis (pah-teess) - Another Filipine thing. It's made from the drippings when they make Bagoong. Its black in color, and served mixed into different dishes (its a sauce). Pigs feet - didnt like it.
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#35
08-19-1999, 06:41 AM
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#36
08-19-1999, 08:55 PM
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The usual...octopus, squid and snails...grassshoppers and fried grubs...goats yes and cous cous but my
favourrite was that dark eye Moroccan berber who served the meal. dREAD pIRATE jUDY
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#37
08-19-1999, 09:39 PM
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I've had shark, and enjoyed it very much. I also like caribou. Got a roast from a friend, marinated it in Italian dressing, and roasted it like you would a regular roast beef. Most excellent.
And as a redhead, Omniscientnot is my new best friend... 
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#39
08-19-1999, 10:08 PM
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When I was around 5 years old, a friend of mine, and I ate some ants from underneath our patio. Why? Who the heck knows. But I remember them tasting very bitter (like others have said), and basically disgusting.
I've had octopus, and it just reminded me of chewing on a hose. I've also had a dish called kibi (sp?). I'm pretty sure it's like a raw lamb pate. I had it at some middle eastern restaurant. Ick, that stuff is probably worse than the octopus, and ants. Adam
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#40
08-19-1999, 10:49 PM
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Doobieous: Pinoy ka 'ba ? Yup, balut might win hands down but for...
Hey ! You've forgotten the Ilocano gastronomic marvel, papaitan. Put live goat on a leash, feed it sweet [glutinous] rice till it can't eat no more, kill it, cut out belly with digested rice, steam it with the bile, jute leaves, garlic, & hot pepper... ------------------ "Proverbs for Paranoids, 1: You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures." - T.Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.
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#41
08-19-1999, 11:18 PM
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Jorge: Oo, Pinoy ako
(About all of the Tagalog i can speak LOL). I'm Visayan though . Hmm i never had that Ilocano dish. I may have to ask my friend mike about that! I dont think i would eat that dish if i knew what it was in the first place (thanks for the advance warning LOL).
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#42
08-20-1999, 07:44 AM
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goats yes and cous cous ???????
Should read goats eyes and cous cous. It was served on a huge brass tray and you just dug in.
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#44
08-20-1999, 11:26 AM
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Cristi: Hey, Hey, HEY!! It's my "alter ego" who does those things. I'll have you know I'm not that kind of guy!
(Although, I guess, something could be arranged if you promised me I could be your new best friend too, afterwards  )
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#47
08-20-1999, 06:11 PM
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I got treated to an expensive fugu fish dinner by a Japanese friend when I was stationed in Asia about fourteen years ago. I didn't realize it was a deadly poisonous puffer fish that had to be cooked by licensed chefs. If there was any trace of this one organ that produced the poison left in the fish then I would've died an agonizing death. Swore to God after that, I'd stick to Long John Silvers.
------------------ "...send lawyers, guns, and money..." Warren Zevon
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#48
08-20-1999, 06:43 PM
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Surely some of you have also tried chicken feet? (Check 'em out next time you go to have dim sum.)
A couple things I've sampled are ant larva (at a Thai restaurant) and whale blubber. Has anyone out there actually tried whale meat? I hear it's supposed to be quite tasty, rather like beef.
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#49
06-20-2000, 11:08 AM
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I've had buffalo and calmari(deep-fried squid). And sushi. What I really want to try is jellyfish. Has anyone tried this? Do they know a recipe for it or where to get it?
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#50
06-20-2000, 01:20 PM
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- The tentacles on a live octopus when eaten still manages to put suction on your tongue etc, and it is quite hard to chew because of this - sucks to whatever it touches in your mouth. You kind of have to battle with it a little bit.
- Pig blood tastes better than chicken blood . - Never eaten but seen people eat live scorpions . Have to be really brave I guess.
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