I love me some chorizo, which is apparently a major gross out food for a lot of people.
Well, mainly they’re a way for conveying garlic butter to your mouth in an entertaining way.
I don’t know if it is considered gross but I love alligator from my native Louisiana. Most people like it once they taste it. Rattlesnake is good as well. I love exotic French food and escargot is great when prepared properly. Frog legs are great as well.
I think it is wise to avoid meat from carnivorous beasts. They could be riddled with diseases aquired from the various beasts they have eaten.
There was a kiosk at the mall a decade-or-so ago that had various jerkies available for sampling. I tried bear and alligator. I can’t give much of a review because they tasted like jerky.
I tend to get a little annoyed at the people who reel back in horror when they hear of the notion of eating dog or cat meat. If the logic is that they don’t want to eat anything friendly, cute, or fuzzy, then they should avoid beef. I had “pet” cows as a kid that ended up on the dinner table. Again, the part I find about dogs and cats on the dinner table is that they eat some nasty crap throughout their lives. I’ll take corn-fed beef any day over mouse/bug/shit-fed dogs or cats. I also refuse to eat any liver, as it is the body’s filter.
Mmmmm, filterlicious.
Do you know why? I’ve never heard of that and have a hard time imagining why it would gross people out.
I don’t see cat and/or dog as “gross” – but considering that in the west, we consider them as pets, I cannot bring myself to consider them as food.
The closest I’ve had to “gross” meat would probably be deer jerky, I guess.
I love cooking rabbit. The rabbits we get come frozen, in one big carcass with the skin, head and feet removed. I had to joint it for stew, and remove all its little organs. The dog was really fascinated by those. I would try horse, and I think I’ve eaten dog but am not sure. Goat doesn’t find its way onto a lot of menus apart from Mexican, African and Filipino, but I love some roasted goat meat. Venison and boar, while not favorites of mine, aren’t bad either. I love blood sausage, liver sausage and pate. I’ve had good steak and kidney pie, and adore sweetbreads. I haven’t taken a whack at brains or tongue yet, but I’d like a shot.
Insects might pose the biggest ick factor for me. But I’d love to try those chili-fried grasshoppers I’ve seen Andrew Zimmern munching on in Thailand.
I like alligator meat, guinea pig, ox’s heart, blood sausages (morcillas). 
Escargots were so so…
I, also, have no idea why that would be.
Adding to my previous post:
As for things made from blood and other unorthodox organs, as long as it smells good, I’ll give it a shot. I mean, if I can eat fish head curry, with the fish that I am currently eating staring at me, nothing else should be a problem.
Goat meat is commonly consumed in South Asia as well - it just isn’t well known because the word mutton is applied to both sheep and goat there.
Hmm - black pudding is breakfast food, so the gross part of this story is being drunk.
Breakfast food while drunk is a common thing in the American South; that’s why the pancake houses stay open so late. Finding black pudding there would be a rarity, though.
I had some veal cheek recently. Delicious.
I haven’t gotten around to trying lengua (tongue) or menudo yet, but I would. What would gross me out far more than the organ meats in menudo is if it had cilantro in it.
I’ve sort of secretly wanted to try grasshoppers and earthworms for awhile. I’m pretty sure the earthworm would be gross but I kinda liked the earthworm Bertie Botts.
Well the only meats mentioned so far that I haven’t tried are cat, guinea pig, and human. Nothing has been particularly terrible, with the notable exception of balut. Does that count as meat, or is it still technically an egg? Either way, I heartily recommend avoiding it. I’m not a picky eater, but even I wouldn’t be able to gag down another one.
Everything else I’d be willing to eat again, though. I’d even be up for cloned endangered species steak, should it ever become available.
Ah yea, I also eat chicken hearts… Brazilians introduced me to them. They can be quite crunchy!
Nothing too outre here. I’ve had camel a few times, and alligator. I really like kibbeh nayeh, which is raw minced lamb. Whenever I order it, the waiters always ask me if I know what it is, thinking (no doubt) “Dumb Westerner doesn’t know what he just ordered.”
Another +1 for scrapple.
While it might look unappetizing sitting on the grocery story shelf as a block of difficult-to-determine animal parts, it’s good eating I tell you. It’s simple to make since you simply slice it up, place on aluminum foil then on the topmost shelf of the oven set on broil. I eat mine with jelly smeared on top while my SO eats hers with ketchup which to me = bleech.
Also I loves me some Spam. The cats and I tear that stuff up and you can eat it raw –straight out of the can, on a sandwich or fried up for breakfast. A tad salty but still filled with plenty of deliciousness.
I’m uncomfortable eating monkey.
Which has made me kind of a bummer at some dinner parties I’ve been to.