What strange foods have you tried?
HealthyAndSober2018
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Here's what I've tried:
Basashi (raw horse meat) - Love it
Fugu (deadly fish sushi) - Good. More for the experience and not the taste.
Organ meats - Love them
Shirako (fish jizz) - Ick
Durian - It's OK
Abalone - Restricted in the USA. It's OK
Balut - Tasty but scary looking
Rocky Mountain Oysters - Good
Crocodile - Not unusual in the south. Good
Frog - Good
Kangaroo - Good
Ostrich - Good
Basashi (raw horse meat) - Love it
Fugu (deadly fish sushi) - Good. More for the experience and not the taste.
Organ meats - Love them
Shirako (fish jizz) - Ick
Durian - It's OK
Abalone - Restricted in the USA. It's OK
Balut - Tasty but scary looking
Rocky Mountain Oysters - Good
Crocodile - Not unusual in the south. Good
Frog - Good
Kangaroo - Good
Ostrich - Good
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Crickets- surprisingly good (at least with some Cajun seasoning as I tried then). You just have to overcome the feeling of the legs in your mouth.2
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Mine are really tame compared to most listed here but I have tried frog legs, haggis, squirrel, durian & blood pudding.
And I regularly enjoy eel, squid, ahi tuna & calamari.
To a lot of my friends/family this is crazy though...and one friend thinks Sriracha and matcha tea are too exotic, so there's that.3 -
Friend tarantula. Actually, very good! Like one giant potato chip on a stick with more flavor.2
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Mine list is pretty normal too. I think anyone who enjoys fine dining will eventually run across stuff like this.
foie gras - delicious (thanks Michael Mina)
caviar - salty, added a slight textural appeal
most raw fish - so far, I've only disliked squid nigiri
truffles - it's just an overpriced mushroom, tastes like one too
escargot - essentially butter and garlic on a little chewy piece of meat
And then the array of meats -
shark, gator, rabbit, oxtail1 -
Frog legs - did not like
Young Jackfruit - I had it as a veggie bbq. It was pretty tasty.
Turtle - liked
Ostrich - liked
Alligator tail - meh, it was OK
Lychee - love! I am not sure if that qualifies as an oddity but I don't see it very often.
Not that odd but I recently tried persimmon for the first time. OMG - why have I not been eating this regularly!2 -
Shark and conch which aren’t that unusual, chicken of the wood which is basically a mushroom that grows from certain types of trees This is a pretty mellow list but if you haven’t tried any of these they’re all delicious.1
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Cow Tongue
Meal Worms
Crickets
Ostrich
Alligator
Shark
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i had horse from a street vendor while in spain....if you had just handed it to me without telling me - i never would have known
had kangaroo - that's a thing in australia1 -
I have tried horse (common in Sweden) and alligator when I visited New Orleans. I didnt like either.1
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Garlic ice cream- better than expected
Alligator- okay
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I've tried:
Smoked puffin in Iceland - it just tasted like a gamey bird, not bad.
Danish wood ants on steak tartare at noma in Copenhagen - the point was that they use all local ingredients, and these ants imparted a citrus/lemony taste since they don't really have citrus there. I'm afraid of bugs, so it took me a couple of minutes to overcome the fear of seeing the ants just sprinkled on top and actually eating them, but they did have a very lemony flavor. Not something I would necessarily try again though.
Horse sausage in Estonia - since it was a sausage, it just tasted like a sausage and I couldn't tell the difference.
Durian - it tasted and smelled like sweet onions (in a bad, rotten way). Definitely didn't like it.
All sorts of wild animals including deer-type varieties like impala/kudu, warthog, crocodile - tasted pretty good.
Offal/organ meats etc. like sweetbreads, hearts, kidneys, livers, tongues, brains - I'm a fan of most of them.
Not necessarily strange, but I've had a variety of savory sorbets and ice creams. The most noteworthy was a Caesar salad ice cream and it was surprisingly delicious.2 -
Vegetarian duck pate
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Gator
Frog legs
Shark
Foie gras
Turkey testicles at the local Turkey Testicle Festival
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Manhattan clam chowder pizza. No, I can't recommend it.1
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Quenepas- like chewing stale gum
Cherimoya- custardy tropical fruit
Baby octopus soup- love grossing out my kids with it
Lychee
Jackfruit
Breadfruit
Bacalao- dried and heavily salted cod fish. Smells ungodly. Delicious after soaking and cooked in stew with rice and beans.1 -
I had a head taco in Guadalajara. Basically just boiled cows head, random stuff scooped out (tongue, eyes, brain, cheek), grilled and then put on a taco. Actually really good.1
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Calf brain
Cow tongue
Chicken hearts
Gator tail
Ostrich
Pig ears & cheek
Chicken feet
Pig feet
Bull testicles
Tripe
Crickets
And whatever else my mother made me eat without telling me what it was until after I finished3 -
omg! I'm surprised that some of you are still alive...
I won't even try a Twinkie! ha3 -
Okay I cannot believe people are saying gator tail is only “good/okay” fried gator tail is AMAZING!! But you know, that’s just my opinion lol.
I however didn’t like frog legs, they tasted like a frog, literally like a pond and froggy!
I’ve tried crickets and meal worms, but they were in candy so that doesn’t seem to count, just tasted like the lollipops.
Squid I thought was gross when my mom cooked it but fried is good, octopus was delicious.
And crawfish = delicious
It’s very interesting, someone else mentioned it a little but many of these things are much more common in the south! For example being from MT I would think that eating pork cracklins was absolutely crazy (the pig skins fried with the thick layer of fat attached- they are hard and crack when you bite them not soft and crunchy like pork rinds)... but fairly common in the south... same with boiled peanuts (which by the way are delicious!!!)1 -
Some of the things I've eaten are normal to me, but may be unusual to other people. I come from an area where hunting is common practice, so I've had a variety of meat that may not be available in larger cities, or other areas of the country where hunting isn't as common.
Crawfish- like a cross between crab and lobster if prepared right. If not prepared right, they taste like mud.
Domestic Rabbit- more tender and less gamey then wild rabbit. My family used to raise them along with chickens.
Wild Rabbit- Does not taste like chicken. Tastes like rabbit.
Elk- Sweeter flavor then beef. Very very lean.
Deer- A little stronger game flavor in comparison to beef.
Bear- Sweet, fatty tender. Very good.
Moose- Rich, heavy flavor.
Pronghorn Antelope- If they eat sage brush, they taste like sage brush. If they eat alfalfa they are very sweet and tender in flavor. I dare say better then beef.
Buffalo- Very similar to 90/10 beef.
Rocky Mountain Oysters- Nothing to write home about. Chewy.
Sage Grouse- Kind of like lean chicken
Chucker-Same
Wild Turkey-Richer flavor them domestic turkey, a little tougher texture.
Liver Mush- Some kind of depression era thing. Fried and slathered in maple syrup. Grandparents used to make it, I have no idea how to prepare it. The only way I have found I can eat liver.
Frog Legs- good if fresh, but kind of fishy tasting.
Pickled Pigs feet- Not sure if I should claim this, but it was good the lst time I had some...when I was 10, lol.
With the exception of the last couple of years, hunting was our main source of red meat. With beef at $3.00 a lb for cheap stuff and 7.00+ a lb for steaks, it is so much cheaper. We ate so much deer and antelope that when I ate beef, it actually tasted gamey. Or, rather there was a discernable beef flavor I never noticed before.
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I think I only have 2 that haven't been mentioned yet.
Elk - strong flavor, very unique, and very low fat, so easily too dry if it's overcooked - loved it
Groundhog - like super greasy dark meat duck - so very yum, wish I knew more hunters and could get it more often1 -
I forgot to mention Morel Mushrooms! They are phenomenal. We usually cut them in half, then bread & fry them. They are nutty, earthy, rich and oh so good. It's so easy to eat too many. It's been said not to eat a large portion of them if you're not accustomed to eating them. They can upset your stomach because they are so rich.1
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Kangaroo
Ostrich
Frog legs
shark
alligator
craw fish
buffalo
rabbit
elk
wild turkey
Not weird but I love chicken livers. Some people have told me that is weird though, so I included it
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