Fried silkworm pupae taste pretty good, but the last time we had some, we ordered too many; I don’t need to eat a whole plateful at a sitting.
I agree that some of the foods mentioned above are more disliked in theory (by people who think the idea is gross before they’ve even tasted it) than in practice (e.g. haggis, frog legs, Clamato).
True. I like to think that I’m a picky eater (but when I read threads like this I realise I probably am not) and offal is generally on the “No, thanks” list, but I have to say that the first time a friend force fed me haggis I fell in love with it at once.
To quote an old Guinness advertising slogan “I’ve never tried it because I don’t like it”.
There’s a place nearby that has gator wings on the menu, which is apparently supposed to be alligator legs (according to a brief googling). Just wanted to get confirmation on that. I might go for lunch.
I’m generally a fan of Dolmas, a dish where rice and seasonings and other stuff is wrapped up in grape leaves. Very tasty. Looks like slimy green radioactive sausages.
Gefilte fish.
They sell it in Canada, but since I’ve been living there I haven’t met a single Canadian who eats the stuff. I love it!
I liked black pudding the first time I ate it in the UK (though I admittedly had no idea what it was).
Haggis is lovely stuff too. It tastes like spicy liverwurst.
Escargot baked in herbed garlic butter is heavenly.
My last girlfriend and I would always go to a Chinese restaurant for VD, and she would invariably order fried tofu swimming in hot red pepper oil and braised frogs’ legs. Tofu, I can’t stand (in college, I could always tell when it was being served as the vegetarian dish of the day because the cafeteria would stink like burning rubber). I had always heard that frogs’ legs taste like chicken, but they don’t. They taste like chicken and fish, combined.
I’m Canadian and I used to buy it from time to time. I haven’t had any for years, though.