What food have you never eaten?

IsaackGMOON wrote: »

Octopus, Squid, Manta Ray... Dirt?

There's quite a lot, I'll give a few 'interesting' foods a go some time.

Does volcanic ash count?

Deer, chitterlings, are my top two. Some of these things that you all have listed I have never even heard of.

Snails

Cow tongue. I have never had cow tongue.

It is very popular out here. A girl I used to work with went to her at-the-time fiances house and his mother plopped a huge cow tongue in front of her and slit it right open. She later admited she probably could have cut it before my friend arrived....I couldn't do it.

Lobster. It smells funny so I won't eat it.

Snails. I don't think I ever will.

I have had snake, squirrel, aligator, deer, and a wide variety of road kill before. Our old neighbores were very into making gumbo with random items they shot themselves. We later discovered they were meth heads. It explained a lot!

My ex-husband used to eat those nasty little cans of Vienna sausages. All I had to do was take one look inside of that can and I was like, "Oh, HELL, no."

I've never had most wild game (deer, etc.), but I'd be willing to try.

I did have marinated kangaroo meat once while I was visiting Australia. I actually really liked it - it tasted like VERY lean beef. Good stuff, but totally unavailable here.

I'm game to try almost anything once (at least when it comes to food...) ;-) Of what's been available to try, I've never bothered to buy durian and I've never cooked up "prairie oysters" or brains. (However. ..if they were well prepared and offered to me I'd be game...blame MasterChef and the tasty looking deep-fried calf brain nuggets. Haha!)

deer, rabbit, squirrel, etc.

I quite like sardines and love snails. It's so strange how some foods seem fine and others not. I got eel when in Germany with a co-worker and my co-worker thought it was a weird thing to order. (He would not have considered snails weird, or oysters or sushi, it's so arbitrary.)

I don't deny I have food prejudices, though. I can't imagine eating dog or cat, and would likely balk at anything too cockroach like or rat or mouse. I also get squicked by the idea of roadkill and might at squirrel, although that one I think I could get over pretty easily.

Back when I was a kid my dad would occasionally decide we should have various organ meats and those are all fine with me, but I refused to eat more than a bite of (beef) tongue the one time my dad decided we should have that. I recall it being kind of unpleasant, but would probably be willing to try again.

LifeInTheBikeLane wrote: »

I have had snake, squirrel, aligator, deer, and a wide variety of road kill before. Our old neighbores were very into making gumbo with random items they shot themselves. We later discovered they were meth heads. It explained a lot!

I love antidotes like this, thanks for sharing.