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.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
Octopus tacos in mexico, salt dried squid, shake and bake rattlesnake, good stuff all,
Larry
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
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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.
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
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.
I tried haggis - all I can say is “Blech”.
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.
So do I. It’s absolutely one of my favorites.
Well me and a few freinds crashed a plane in the Andies…but we don’t talk about that…
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.
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 . . .
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
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.
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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.
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.