I had Sweet Breads when I was on my honeymoon in SF. Didn’t have any idea what they were…later to find they were (I think) brains. Whether or not I have mad cow disease is still up for debate! Now thanks to Cracker Larry I still don’t know what I ate !
Yes, the raw horse was in fact in Japan. It wasn’t terrible.
Was offered some congealed looking red stuff the consistency of tofu in China… blood. No thanks.
I will say this, everywhere I have eaten the local food, whether Japan, China, Europe, etc… Its all been 100% awesome.
When I was in Viet Nam, I worked with the Montagnards in the Central Highlands. They used to trap big azz rats and gut them and prop them open with sticks, to dry in the sun! When we got ready to go out on a recon mission, they would pick out a couple of their biggest juiciest rats and put them in their packs and that was their version of C-RATions, I guess! Believe me, I never would eat them, but I wasn’t real hungry either!
the pancreas is also known as the heart or the stomach? methinks larry’s source ate enough sweetbreads to forget their anatomy skoolin’.
off the top of my head: blood, brain, and liver sausages in germany; guinea pig in ecuador; ant larvae, grasshoppers, and roadkilled beaver in the mountains of NC; and since we’re not in florida, smoked mullet and bacon-wrapped roe in my backyard.
odd things i’ve really enjoyed: sauteed deer heart in PA, crawfish roe in NC, marinated octopus in italy
I had a fried ground squid burger at a fast food joint in Japan. I thought I was ordering a fish sandwich and was unpleasantly surprised. It was lots of very chewy tiny pieces of squid with each bite.
Last year I did some crow hunting and cleaned them and cooked up the breasts in a stew. It is very tender meat and tastes just like venison. A brave buddy of mine tried it with me. That night I had some very strange dreams. I talked to my buddy a couple days later, and he said he also had some weird dreams that night. I couldn’t decide whether the old folklore surrounding crows had anything to do with it or maybe one of the crows we ate got into some garbage with somebody’s old medication mixed in?
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Went on vacation once to Spain! Went to a local place and couldn’t read the Spanish menue . I told the wife I’d do the ordering:smiley: I saw something that looked kind of familiar so ordered 2 orders of Chipirones! Don’t know what I thought I was going to get, but it wasn’t it. They gave us 2 bowles of squid, boiled in it’s own ink! I was bound and determined to eat it because we were paying for it. Worst fishy tasting and smelling stuff I ever put in my mouth:wink: The wife had to try it and I said just cut some of the legs (tentacles) off below the mantle and try them. She started cutting and I told her not the cut up to high, because she didn’t want to cut off the squid’s little balls That was it for her! I’m LOL now, thinking about the look on her face:smiley:
i went to the Philippines where my fathers side of the family is from and there they sell a delicacy called Balut, this delicacy is a very interesting one, featured on shows like fear factor as the food challenge. what it is a half developed duck embryo boiled and then fermented for 30 days under ground. and we got a little tipsy one evening and my dad challenged me to eat it. and i did and to my surprise with a little salt it was delicious! also my wife loved it, untill she got one where the eyes had started to develop and she bit the pupil witch was hard like a small pebble. also Blood Pudding made from the blood of a pig when they do there famous Lechon ( rotisserie hole pig) that stuff is very good! what they do is slit the pigs throat collect the blood sweeten it and let it congealed they also make a dish called Dinuguan from it witch is also good basically a pork stew made with the pudding. sooo good! ( this is how my dad described these dishes before and wile i was eating them think he was trying to make me gag haha)
Survival school in Maine, killed a half starved cat, not much meat and unbelievably tough. During another Arctic Survival school a long ways from here, had some polar bear… ssshhhh. I think the “weird” part comes in when a your not starving to death, other than that nothing edible is weird I would say the amount of Americans alive today that have been on the verge of starvation are very few indeed. Just look how fat our poor are.
While stationed at Tyndale, had an oriental neighbor that would dry sea horse… tasted like grisly soy sauce.
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I had some unusual items in Taiwan but they weren’t much weirder than what I have had at the Strange Seafood Festival in Beaufort, NC. That was years ago, I don’t know if they still have it. I believe it was in the fall and was a fund raiser for the Maritime Museum. If you are going to be up there, buy tickets ahead of time because they sell out.
I don’t classify fried mullet as weird, that’s what I grew up eating. Still might be my favorite fish to eat (smoked too) with some cracklin bread!
Deep fried, snapping turtle eggs in Middleofnowhere, Loseanna! Tuff chewy and not good, but edible! Those people down there will eat anything that crawls, swims, flys ozzes, walks, runs or sits still long enough for them to pick it up! Road Kill, is high on the list! They give it the Sniff Test and if it gets a, (Not to bad) rateing it is dinner. If you don’t like the smell or looks of it, they tell you to eat around the bad parts and we’ll feed the rest to the dogs.They got to eat to! Or they say, Candy will eat that part, it’s her favorite.
Parrotfish, goatfish, doctorfish(tangs), mullet. I had a seafood market in Miami and had lots of Bahamian and Jamican customers. They would give me some of their recipes. Most of the stuff was really good. I had to draw the line at cooking with the heads on. I just can’t eat anything that’s looking at me.
Parrotfish, goatfish, doctorfish(tangs), mullet. I had a seafood market in Miami and had lots of Bahamian and Jamican customers. They would give me some of their recipes. Most of the stuff was really good. I had to draw the line at cooking with the heads on. I just can’t eat anything that’s looking at me.
That was it for her! I’m LOL now, thinking about the look on her face:smiley:
I would say the amount of Americans alive today that have been on the verge of starvation are very few indeed. Just look how fat our poor are.