For me, the most “exotic” thing I’ve eaten was on my trip to Japan last summer.
I ate raw horse meat.
Tasted a lot like salami. Served chilled, cut really thin in little triangles, it really wasn’t that bad. What I found really funny is that when I came back, we ran a story about how upset a lot of local Texans were at the prospect of horses being sent over seas to be eaten.
All I could think is “It’s really not half bad.”
I’m kidding here. Really.
Sheeps brains
Laverbread (Welsh seaweed bread)
Goat
Saltfish & Ackees
Alligator
Many types of Italian cured meat
White Castles
Black Pudding
Haggis
Fried rattlesnake - LOTS of bones!
Horse jerky. It was not bad, although in general I do not like jerky.
Fried Polynesian rat, in New Zealand.
Paca
Peccary
Guinea Pig
Guan
Currassow
Alpaca
Muskrat
Squirrel
Kangaroo
Alligator
Frogs
Grasshoppers
Beaver
Trapped by my dad in the lake behind our house, cooked like roast beef in a crock pot by my mom. Most disgusting thing ever. Gamey, fishy, fatty, rank, gross. I remember telling my parents that I didn’t want to eat it, and my mom saying that my attitude was assinine. However, no one took seconds that night.
Also, snapping turtle from the same lake, which my parents told me was chicken. Had I not been suspicious of the strangely-cut chicken and then figured out what it was (or, if they’d’ve just told me the truth), it might have been ok.
I’ve had
Durian,
Capybara-not bad, although greasy.
Frog,
Alligator,
boar,
kim chi,
blood sausage.
Is goat really that exotic?
I didn’t even listed goats. I don’t think it is exotic.
Exotic or gross? Like brujo, I’ve eaten capybara - you know, the big hamster-like rodents in South America. I was climbing up Macchu Picchu and someone handed me a bowl and I just ate it. It wasn’t too bad - kind of stringy, but maybe that’s just poor cooking :).
The capybara definitely tasted better than the deep-fried cow’s brain that I ate in high school. Cow’s brain tastes sort of like funnel cake but squishier, and without the sugar. It wasn’t bad, but knowing what I was eating really did not make the experience enjoyable.
I also had blood sausage, but I think it’s pretty common in Europe & South America. It was delicious. But I probably wouldn’t eat it again if I were given the option.
On a side note, I come from Indiana. We have a fall festival there where people now make cajun-spiced baked larvae. I’ve never tried them, but I imagine they’d probably taste like spicy rice-krispies.
It is if you eat it with Marmite…
When I was in Korea I ate dog, octopus, squid, and kim chi.
At a Vietnamese wedding I ate jellyfish.
After choking down way too much of that rope-gristle, I finally asked what I was eating. Ugh.