Unusual food that you have recorded on your daily food diary?
golfchess
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Being from the southwest, I never had alligator before. Sure enough, it was listed as a food on the app. What unusual foods have you recorded?
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I've eaten plenty of unusual foods in the past but those were when I wasn't logging, but I looked up all the weird foods I've eaten and they're all there in the database. My list of weird foods include crickets, whale meat, donkey meat and snake meat.4
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@swirlybee (rattle) snake meat is fairly common here and I have seen crickets on the food network. I am surprised that donkey meat was included. It must be a common food somewhere.2
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Just thought of another weird food I've tried. Horse meat. Yup, it's there and it's verified.5
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I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.7
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@swirlybee and here I thought horse meat was just Jack in the Box rumors from the 80s.2
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Here, horse meat is not unusual. No the most usual, but we get it now and again. It can be found in any supermarket... as can rabbit meat and sheep testicles.2
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
Durian is very popular here. I also have not tried it.1 -
Being from the southwest, I never had alligator before. Sure enough, it was listed as a food on the app. What unusual foods have you recorded?
Florida gal here, we eat alligator pretty often. There’s a good fish shack 5 minutes from my house that serves it as an appetizer 😋, tastes like chicken!0 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
FTR, I had natto veggie maki (server tried to talk me out of ordering it: LOL!), and it was less scary tasting than I'd expected. I can't remember whether/how I logged it.
I believe in trying everything once . . . one of the nice things about being vegetarian is that I don't have to try the very scariest things, generally.
Other than natto, odd fruits are about as exotic as I've gotten (fresh rambutan, lychee, & logan; limequats (so good!); prickly pear; etc). On the veggie front, it's harder to think of things I consider exotic: Fiddleheads? Red amaranth "greens"? Bitter melon? Tindora? Dunno.2 -
@leanjogreen18 Burian seems to be a popular exotic food among the vegetarians.0
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@GottaBurnEmAll Except for maybe the food network, I have not heard/seen of either one of those.0
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
I have an acquaintance whose daughter loves natto. Yes he and his family live in the US and yes his wife is Japanese. That said, there are probably plenty of fruits and vegetables you haven't tried in part because they just aren't available where you live.0 -
I guess it depends on location. Those meats are only available in specialty stores or hunt it yourself where I'm at, and hunting is not allowed (metro area)0 -
I think this is hard for me at least because how are we defining unusual? Things that are hard to find where we live? Things that we don't typically eat (regardless of whether or not they're hard to find)? Is it unusual because of the cooking style?
I've never had horse but I've lives in places where it's very easy to find. Veal is painfully difficult to get here but in Vienna it was delightfully easy to buy from the grocery store. Morels (my favorite mushroom) are really easy for me to get in season at farmers markets where I live right now but I can't imagine that's the case in a number of other cities. One of my favorite types of apples to include in applesauce is the Northern Spy variety which I can't find in stores but I can easily buy a tree of that cultivar (not that I have space for an apple tree but I definitely know people who do). Finger limes are a lot more exotic in the US (among other places) than they are in Australia.1 -
Carambola aka starfruits, cherimoya, chayote, persimmons. Not unusual but for me it is. Also not unusual, large amounts of coffee creamer. Like I've received messages about what I'm using it for.1
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
I have an acquaintance whose daughter loves natto. Yes he and his family live in the US and yes his wife is Japanese. That said, there are probably plenty of fruits and vegetables you haven't tried in part because they just aren't available where you live.
The strange veggies/fruits just don't seem to create same frisson as chicken feet or prairie oysters, though.2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
I have an acquaintance whose daughter loves natto. Yes he and his family live in the US and yes his wife is Japanese. That said, there are probably plenty of fruits and vegetables you haven't tried in part because they just aren't available where you live.
The strange veggies/fruits just don't seem to create same frisson as chicken feet or prairie oysters, though.
Chicken feet do make for awfully good chicken stock though. I'm sure I would like them if they weren't braised. Or rather, if they were braised and fried, roasted, or sauteed.1 -
Nobody logs food quite like Icelandic folk.2
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
I have an acquaintance whose daughter loves natto. Yes he and his family live in the US and yes his wife is Japanese. That said, there are probably plenty of fruits and vegetables you haven't tried in part because they just aren't available where you live.
I wouldn't consider them exotic, though, and would have no issue trying them were they available.1 -
Back when I was actively logging, I don't think I ever actually logged anything that someone would consider unusual, but there were entries for "human flesh" and "human soul" that I used as stand-ins for other things. I had edited the human flesh entry to be the same as pork and used it in place of that. Likewise, I edited human soul to match vodka (because they are both spirits
) and used it for logging cocktails.
Those entries seem to have been deleted from the database, though.9 -
@JetJaguar Now I know who was recording human soul. I thought it was just the devil recording his acquisitions for the day.2
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@JetJaguar Now I know who was recording human soul. I thought it was just the devil recording his acquisitions for the day.
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'm a vegetarian. There's really not much that's exotic that I would be logging since I have no intention of ever trying durian or natto.
I have an acquaintance whose daughter loves natto. Yes he and his family live in the US and yes his wife is Japanese. That said, there are probably plenty of fruits and vegetables you haven't tried in part because they just aren't available where you live.
The strange veggies/fruits just don't seem to create same frisson as chicken feet or prairie oysters, though.
Chicken feet do make for awfully good chicken stock though. I'm sure I would like them if they weren't braised. Or rather, if they were braised and fried, roasted, or sauteed.
Walmart sells them labeled as "Chicken Paws".
No. Just, No.5 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »
Walmart sells them labeled as "Chicken Paws".
No. Just, No.
At least in the US, most authentic Chinese restaurants will have chicken feet as part of the broth.
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I was showing my husband those entries. He suggested that I look up "hamster."
Yes, I found it. Some brand "King Hall" where, upon Googling, I could only find college campus halls.
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Back when I was actively logging, I don't think I ever actually logged anything that someone would consider unusual, but there were entries for "human flesh" and "human soul" that I used as stand-ins for other things. I had edited the human flesh entry to be the same as pork and used it in place of that. Likewise, I edited human soul to match vodka (because they are both spirits) and used it for logging cocktails.
Those entries seem to have been deleted from the database, though.
Are you sure human flesh wasn’t a typo for hummus fresh ? 😂1
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