# Weird-Sounding Food That Is Surprisingly Good. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449 "2017-08-23T11:22:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/41 "2017-08-24T18:41:17Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > But they all do seem to have a common flavor to them, imparted by the blood, I would suppose. Sage, maybe? That’s what I meant to say upthread, instead of cumin. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/42 "2017-08-24T18:48:27Z")
> [@jerez](#): > > Sage, maybe? That’s what I meant to say upthread, instead of cumin. Yeah, I was wondering about that turkey stuffing cumin comment. 🙂 The kinds I’ve had did not have sage in them, so far as I remember. But it would not surprise me if some version of it does have sage. It seems like a flavor that would pair well with blood sausage. Or it’s possible you may be thinking of marjoram, which is common in Central European versions of the sausage. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/43 "2017-08-24T18:54:44Z")
Unagi and uni are two of my favourite sushi flavours and I recently tried mackerel which I wasn’t sure i was going to like, but damn is it tasty! Things I’ve also greatly enjoyed: frog’s legs (although they are futzy to eat like a chicken wing), rattlesnake (chicken ish in flavour but tougher), fiddleheads (ferns generously lavished with butter, saltand pepper), goat roti in a Jamaican restaurant (curried goat is awesome!), huitlecoche- literally means “raven poop” (delicate corny, mushroom flavour, very nice on rice) fried grasshoppers- taste faintly of peanut butter, very crunchy. I’d eat them again though. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/44 "2017-08-24T20:58:16Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > goat roti in a Jamaican restaurant (curried goat is awesome!) I am as unadventurous of an eater as you’ll find and I shocked myself by trying and loving curried goat. It hasn’t translated into me trying many other things though. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/45 "2017-08-24T23:43:20Z")
'Nother vote for haggis and blood pudding. Sausages, basically. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/46 "2017-08-25T02:06:09Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I am as unadventurous of an eater as you’ll find and I shocked myself by trying and loving curried goat. It hasn’t translated into me trying many other things though. Goat is amazing. Stewed or curried up here in the Northeast. In Texas, they barbecue it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/47 "2017-08-25T03:25:43Z")
I’ve wondered if I should give lamb another try. When I was a kid it was way too “strong” but in a stew or gyros it could be good? If some of that “strength” is cooked out? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/48 "2017-08-25T03:35:27Z")
> [@simster](#): > > growing up - my mother would make ‘ButterMilk Pie’ - it was a holiday favorite. > > It doesn’t sound like it would be a good pie - but damned if it isn’t. I’ve had it, and you are right - it’s delicious! It’s just a variation of a custard pie. Anyone here ever tried spotted dick? 😛 Yummy British dessert! ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/49 "2017-08-25T07:33:49Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’ve wondered if I should give lamb another try. When I was a kid it was way too “strong” but in a stew or gyros it could be good? If some of that “strength” is cooked out? I saw what ewe did there… Has to be very young (a month or two) or it may have that flavor, which, as far as I know, you can’t really remove in the cooking process (I’d be interested to hear otherwise, though). Grilled chops are amazingly good, but they’re expensive, they might have that flavor and/or turn out dry and tough, and they will definitely cool quickly on your plate. So, find a trustworthy butcher, know how to cook them and be prepared to grill them in batches. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/50 "2017-08-25T10:36:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Goat is amazing. Stewed or curried up here in the Northeast. In Texas, they barbecue it. Jamaican-style curry goat with bags of lime and ginger and hot hot peppers is the shit. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/51 "2017-08-25T13:17:24Z")
> [@jerez](#): > > I saw what ewe did there… :smack:😛 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/52 "2017-08-25T14:54:37Z")
A Hill Country (Texas) restaurant I ate at once served Cabrito burgers. Very tasty. Not as dense as ground beef and sorta spicy, but not pepper-y spicy (that may have been the way it was prepared and not the meat itself–I dunno.). ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/53 "2017-08-26T15:07:44Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > …goat roti in a Jamaican restaurant (curried goat is awesome!)… > [@Penfeather](#): > > Jamaican-style curry goat with bags of lime and ginger and hot hot peppers is the shit. I recently discovered the recipe for the Jamaican goat dish as above (in Jamaica-speak it is indeed, one gathers, always “curry goat”): utterly delicious, if you like things hot. The curry powder mix peculiar to Jamaica – with allspice decidedly prominent – gives it a distinctive flavour. Have also found that giving the same treatment to pork, delivers grand results. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/54 "2017-08-26T15:47:11Z")
Curry goat, jerk chicken, and Red Stripe beer - proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/55 "2017-08-26T16:14:54Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Scrapple. Has an awful reputation but in actuality it’s quite innocuous. I love scrapple! I moved away from Maryland years ago and I won’t live there again, but if I ever visited, Scrapple would be on the breakfast menu. I have no idea where else you can get it, but not AZ, NM, or OK that I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/56 "2017-08-26T19:34:00Z")
I was on a job interview in Germany and my potential boss took me out to dinner (this was in Cologne) and insisted I eat local, which included Blutwurst (blood sausage). I dutifully tried it 'cause he was my potential boss, and I was amazed at how good it was. It doesn’t show up on menus often, but when it does I’ll have it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/57 "2017-08-26T19:35:54Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > A Hill Country (Texas) restaurant I ate at once served Cabrito burgers. Very tasty. Not as dense as ground beef and sorta spicy, but not pepper-y spicy (that may have been the way it was prepared and not the meat itself–I dunno.). I once ordered BBQ cabrito in Texas and it came still on the bone. It was okay, but not enough to make me seek it out. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/58 "2017-08-26T21:25:37Z")
As I’ve mentioned in previous threads here, I do love turtle soup!! Sadly, I don’t get it often. Just 3 times in my life thus far; twice at Court of the Two Sisters in New Orleans (1978 and 2016), and once at the Taste of Chicago festival back in the late 1980’s. But each time it’s been a real taste treat; beefy yet with its own unique flavor, rich, very satisfying. I can’t wait for my next opportunity. Anybody know of any restaurants serving a decent turtle soup (or other turtle meat offering) in Wisconsin? Or even perhaps the Chicago area, as I’ve got a few conferences coming up there in the next 6 months. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/59 "2017-08-26T23:26:52Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Anybody know of any restaurants serving a decent turtle soup (or other turtle meat offering) in Wisconsin? Or even perhaps the Chicago area, as I’ve got a few conferences coming up there in the next 6 months. Ruth’s Chris steakhouse serves an excellent version ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/60 "2017-08-27T02:33:15Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Ruth’s Chris steakhouse serves an excellent version Thanks for that. Madison or Northbrook, IL seem to be my best bet for visiting that chain. Hmmm . . . seems to be seasonal, can’t find it on the menu now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449.md?page=4)